'karma-result', is any karmically (morally) neutral mental phenomenon (e.g. bodily agreeable or painful feeling, sense-consciousness, etc. ), which is the result of advantageous or disadvantageous intentional action (karma, q.v.) through body, speech or mind, done either in this or some previous life.

Totally wrong is the belief that, according to Buddhism, everything is the result of previous action. Never, for example, is any karmically advantageous or disadvantageous intentional action the result of former action, being in reality itself karma.

On this subject s. titthāyatana, karma, Tab. I; Fund II. Cf. A. III, 101; Kath. 162 (Guide, p. 80).

karma-produced (kammaja or kamma-samutthāna) corporeal things are never called kamma-vipāka, as this term may be applied only to mental phenomena.

Literature:

• Karma and Rebirth, by Nyanatiloka (WHEEL 9);
• Survival and Karma in Buddhist Perspective, by K.N. Jayatilleke (WHEEL 141/143);
• Kamma and its Fruit (WHEEL 221/224).