On the paper that we handed out to all of you as old students, there's a bit about reflecting on "actions and the results of actions." We can do it inwardly or we can do it outwardly.
Inwardly means we look at our own life. What did I do in the past? What were the results? What were the causes? Can we look at our own past actions in this way?
Outwardly, can we consider other people's actions in the world? What did they do? What was the result? What were the causes?
If we look at something that was a negative action with negative results, lets examine it and ask how it could have been done differently. Whether it's what we did, or whether it's what someone else did. We examine it, and we open it up.
The classic example we use is of Mother Teresa and the Oklahoma bombing people. We use these two as an example of reflecting on Compassion and Equanimity. That's a classic case of Kamma, because really the Compassion and Equanimity section is just a sub-group of the Kamma "actions and the results of actions" reflection. They're very dramatically different events, which seemingly started with a similar type of seed. Mother Teresa had Compassion for the poor and sick people, and if you have read about the Oklahoma bombing fellows, supposedly they had a "type" of Compassion.
They wanted to "wake up America." They thought America was going in the wrong direction. But what they did as an action was not Compassionate at all. So examine these different things, what would you have done? If you want to wake up America, what are you going to do? Are you going to go and blow up a building, with a hundred kids in it? No, of course not. This pushes you to think of "What is an alternative? What could I actually do to wake up America?" There's a few people who are actively trying to do it in non-violent ways. If you know some of their stories, you can reflect on that and think about how that might be more beneficial, and so on.
This would be how you could work on reflecting on Kamma. Take examples, look at them deeply. See how they could be done differently, even to the extent that you consider other people whom you know, how they would do something. For example, you're thinking of something you did that wasn't so skillful, and you think to yourself, "What would Steve have done, if he was in that position?" You know me well enough, try to imagine what I would have done in that position. What would your father have done? What would your mother have done? What would your brother/sister have done? By looking at it in this way, it also opens up more understanding concerning that action and its results. Hopefully it will open up the Wisdom to know what would be the best way to deal with that situation if you ever have it again in the future.