Circle of Kamma’s Results in Theravada Buddhism

Abstract

The aim of this academic article is to visualize the results of Kamma referring to the fruits done in previous as shadows of actions. In Sangitisutta, there found 4 types person who must gain the fruits done by themselves; 1) the one who comes and goes with darkness, 2) the one who came with darkness but went with light, 3) the one who came with light but went with darkness, 4) the one who came and went away with light. The circle of kamma involves with action and its reaction depends on its conditions, therefore actions which will produce good or bad results relies on 4 properties and 4 factors as well. The results taught by the Buddha are seen in various outcomes due to each what type of kamma had been done. It is natural way that all actions fall into change, i.e. rise and fall because of its factors as the Buddha said ‘volition is called as Kamma, having thought before, one commits to act through bodily, verbal and thought expression. Whatever was done with volition, surely it generates actions as well as its fruits of such actions which all actors must experience.