Karma

In the teaching of Buddhisms, the law of karma, says only this

"For every event that occurs

there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first,

and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant

according as its cause was skillful or unskillful."

A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions ;

An unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things.

Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.

The law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them.

Being fully ethical is said to be impossible for those who make a distinction between self and other and show preference for the perceived self over the perceived other, for such perceptions inhibit being fully responsive.

Being fully ethical is possible only for those who realize that all persons are empty, that is, devoid of personhood.