Four Kinds of Karma

The Buddha talks of four kinds of karma. I'll go through each of them and what the Buddha says about each. We'll see that the fourth and final one is quite strange and surprising, and may hold a key to how we can understand our practice better.

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✅ Suttas mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/mn57/en/sujato
https://suttacentral.net/an4.236/en/s...
https://suttacentral.net/an4.237/en/s...
https://suttacentral.net/an4.238/en/s...
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00:00 Intro
01:23 First: dark karma
03:40 Second: bright karma
06:22 Third: both dark and bright karma
07:21 Karmic results
08:32 Fourth: neither dark nor bright

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