_”Cetanāhaṁ, bhikkhave, kammaṁ vadāmi. Cetayitvā kammaṁ karoti, kāyena vācāya manasā.”
Oh monks, it is intention that I call kamma.
Intentionally someone does an action by body and collects kamma.
Intentionally someone speaks and collects kamma.
Intentionally someone thinks things with the mind and collects kamma.
“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ nidānasambhavo?”
How does kamma form?
“Phasso, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ nidānasambhavo”
It is through contact kamma is formed.
[Contact is the union of three things: a) internal senses b) external senses c) consciousness. For example: a) the eye b) forms, c) consciousness arising in the eye. When these three come together, it is called eye contact. This is what produces intentions. When one acts, speaks or thinks on that intention, kamma is formed. We’ll explore an example.
Once the Buddha taught the reality of life to a family, explaining the unpleasantness of the body. The mother and father of the family had a pleasant mind and became stream-enterers. The daughter however, after listening to the same exact words, sought revenge from the Buddha. What was the difference.
Mother and father and daughter a) heard the Buddha’s b) voice and c) ear consciousness arose. The coming together of these three is called ear contact.
For all three of them, ear contact was formed. The difference was that the mother and father formed a wholesome intention based on that ear contact along with pleasant feelings arising and they perceived it in a positive manner.
Magandiya, on the other hand, based on that same ear contact, unpleasant feelings arose, and she perceived the Buddha’s words as a threat to her, as abuse, and an evil intention arose in her to seek revenge from the Buddha.
Based on that evil intent (which was formed through ear contact), she planned for years to get back at the Buddha. She did this by burning 500 female disciples of the Budda alive. Her evil intent and the karma formed along with it didn’t go without giving its result, for she too was later burned alive by the King after being found out. Not only that, but as a remainder of her karma, she was born in hell.]
_”Katamā ca, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ vemattatā?”
What are the various types of kamma?
“Atthi, bhikkhave, kammaṁ nirayavedanīyaṁ, atthi kammaṁ tiracchānayonivedanīyaṁ, atthi kammaṁ pettivisayavedanīyaṁ, atthi kammaṁ manussalokavedanīyaṁ, atthi kammaṁ devalokavedanīyaṁ.”
There is kamma that will give result in hell.
There is kamma that will give result in the animal world.
There is kamma that will give result in the ghost world.
There is kamma that will give result in the human world.
There is kamma that will give result in the deva worlds.
This is called the various types of kamma.
“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ vipāko?”
What is the result of kamma?
“Tividhāhaṁ, bhikkhave, kammānaṁ vipākaṁ vadāmi. – diṭṭheva dhamme, upapajje vā, apare vā pariyāye”
Kamma can give result in three ways.
Kamma may give a result (vipaka) in this very life.
Kamma may give a result in the very next life.
Kamma may give a result in some future life.
“Katamo ca, bhikkhave, kammanirodho?”
What is the cessation or end of kamma?
“Phassanirodho, bhikkhave, kammanirodho.”
When contact ceases kamma ceases to be made. (Without contact occurring an intention does not arise)
What is the path of practice to make an end of kamma?
“Ayameva ariyo aṭṭhaṅgiko maggo kammanirodhagāminī paṭipadā, seyyathidaṁ—sammādiṭṭhi sammāsaṅkappo sammāvācā sammākammanto sammāājīvo sammāvāyāmo sammāsati sammāsamādhi”
It is through practicing and developing the Noble Eight Fold Path which is: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration. This is the path of practice leads someone to make an end of kamma.
When a noble disciple understands completely: what kamma is, how kamma is formed, the various types of kamma, the result (vipaka) that kamma brings, the cessation or the end of kamma, and the path of practice to make an end of kamma, then he truly sees that only the noble path that the Supreme Buddha taught, is the path to make a complete end of kamma.”
(Anguttara Nikaya, The book of the Sixes, Sutta 63 – Nibbedhika sutta)