[rarpAcconavox]

Yes, I can see the idea of the action being new kamma being distinct from what we "see" ( through hearing, tasting, touching, smelling and cognition ) happening now.

yes. i sense that also

i sense the teaching may be saying that when one is mindful & clearly comprehending at sense experience, 'old kamma' is finished; i.e., 'old kamma' merely comprises of sense experience and there is no need to venture further back in 'time' than that

and, because the sense organs can be conditioned (i.e., affected/stimulated) by conditions, such as ignorance, and can be servants of the will (volition), it is new kamma that one must be most heedful of

i sense this teaching is not really important. it is just one unique expression amongst thousands of suttas

but i do sense it was a revolution of the old, similar to when Jesus said: "You have heard it said [in the past], but I say [now & new]"

similarly, the Brahmins (Hindus) believed their lives were the product of old kamma. but Buddha offered a new teaching, advising when the mind is mindful in the present, there is no old kamma from the past; that 'old kamma' & 'new kamma' can only come into play when mindfulness & wisdom at sense experience are absent

regards



And what is the cause by which kamma comes into play? Contact is the cause by which kamma comes into play.

And what is the quenching of kamma? From the quenching of contact is the quenching of kamma; and just this noble eightfold path — right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration — is the path of practice leading to the quenching (cessation) of kamma.

Nibbedhika Sutta: Penetrative