And the next question was, what is, then, karma? And I said, karma is if you do something, it will leave a result. And that result will cause some activity. In this way our activity will continue. And here we started to talk about the eternal. We didn't say “eternal present,” but cause and effect, cause and effect, cause and effect.
—Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture - 68-07-21 - as found on
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