Question

Can you talk more about how to reflect on "everyone is the owner of his or her Kamma" in formal meditation?

Answer

Look at your life, look at what you have done, find an example of what you have done, and look at the results of it, saying, "Ok, those results came to me, that was my action, that was my result." With somebody else's life, look at something that they have actually done, some situation where you know the results, also. Look at the results, say to yourself, "Ok, that is what they did, that was the result." You can use the newspaper for a lot of this, somebody who just robbed a bank, got captured and put in jail. Their action was robbing a bank, the result was being put in jail, they got what they deserved, that was their Kamma that was their result. So with situations that you know something about you can use this method. Now, there are plenty of examples in life where we see some results, but we can't figure out what the causes for it were, that is not what we would use for this kind of meditation. Buddhism teaches that this is Kamma too, but in the meditation we want to actually see that I am the owner of this, I got this result, somebody else is the owner of that and they got the results of that.

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