# Karma part 3

Last week we started looking at the meaning of Karma

We started by 
## Definition of Karma -

Actions and effects


### The underlying principles of karma

- mind does not end with the body
- Actions leave potential in the mind - carried within our mind until conditions meet to ripen the potential
- The three kind of actions/potentials/experiences
- Our life is result of previous action(karma) (Designed by previous practitioner)
- Karma as causality - why is this happening to me
- Intention is at the heart of any action

## Why is this happening to me

Indicating that we are looking for a cause - something prior to our present experience which can explain our present experience.

This idea is causality - by recognizing how a child asks - why?? we can appreciate how natural and ingrained into our way of thinking the belief that from this comes that. If this is happening something has had to happen before.

### ideas about causality

Brief presentation of ideas - production from self other both and non

## Introduction to virtue and non-virtue
In simple terms - all Buddhists assert production from other. That is to say - Buddhist understad that for something to take place now - something else must have happend sometime before.

We then ask what is the main cause of  peace of mind?
And we explain this to be virtue.