[Polopolop]

Karma should be seen as cause and effect as applied to the mind that contemplates karma.

Thoughts, speech and action are all karma. Each "action" (as karma means) can bear immediate results, delayed results (plant a seed in the mind), or no identifiable results. The thrust of the teachings on karma is that if we act skillfully we can generate wholesome results ("effects") and wholesome "seeds" that will ripen in the future.

The state of the mind now has come to be from past karma. Knowing this, and having teachings about what is "skillful karma", we can begin to apply skillful karma... leading the mind to awakening.

This is the teaching for those who would awaken, who would know truth for themselves through their own effort; their own skillful karma.

Namaste