Look at the intention, because intention is what makes an act kamma

Before and after something you do, name the intention behind it — the factor the Buddha identifies with kamma itself.

なぜ効果があるのか

In Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.63 the Buddha says, in Sujato’s translation, “It is intention that I call deeds,” and that after making a choice one acts by body, speech and mind. The Abhidhamma places volition (cetanā) among the universal factors present in every mind-state; Mendis explains that it determines the activity of the other factors and is the principal factor behind kamma, so that an act done with no intention — stepping on an insect unknowingly — carries no kammic weight. Attending to intention rather than to outcome alone puts attention where the tradition says the moral weight of an action lies.

やり方

1. Before a conversation or task that matters, ask: what do I actually intend here — to help, to win, to be seen, to get it over with?
2. Name it plainly, without rewriting it into something nicer.
3. Afterwards, ask again: was the intention I acted on the one I named, or did another take over?
4. Notice mixed intentions without judging them — most real acts carry more than one.
5. Where an intention you did not want keeps appearing, note which root it seems to come from.

エビデンス

The identification of intention with deeds is in AN 6.63, which also names contact as the source of deeds. Mendis sets out volition as a universal mental factor and its role in kamma, and Bodhi’s introduction notes that the commentaries work out detailed correlations between kamma and its results. The practice is an application of this teaching and has not been studied. (anecdotal)

The tradition’s account of kamma includes rebirth and results across lives, which this page presents as the tradition’s claim. Attending to intention also does not settle questions of responsibility for consequences, which the texts treat separately.

出典

• Sujato, B. (trans.). Penetrative (Nibbedhikasutta, Aṅguttara Nikāya 6.63). SuttaCentral.
• Mendis, N. K. G. (1985). The Abhidhamma in Practice (Wheel Publication No. 322). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Access to Insight edition.
• Bodhi, B. (gen. ed.) (1993). A Comprehensive Manual of Abhidhamma: The Abhidhammattha Saṅgaha of Ācariya Anuruddha (Pali text originally edited and translated by Mahāthera Nārada). Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society. Introduction by U Rewata Dhamma and Bhikkhu Bodhi, reproduced at Access to Insight.

よくある間違い

Using “my intention was good” to dismiss the effect on someone else. The teaching locates kammic weight in intention, but it does not ask you to ignore harm — the honest review asks both what you meant and what actually happened.