Is meditation Kamma?

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SarathW
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Is meditation Kamma?

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Is meditation Kamma?
How meditation could be kamma if there is no physical action?
If Just good thought alone take you to a good rebirth then the just the bad thought alone should take you to a bad destination!
If just good thought alone take you to a good destination what is the motivation to do good things?
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Greetings, Sarath.
Kamma as just physical action is the Jain view of Kamma.
Buddhist view of kamma is that it is intention.
The intention to meditate is kamma, the intention that is there from moment to moment to follow the object of meditation is kamma.
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Greetings,
Khantipalo Bhikkhu wrote:The Buddha says all intentional actions, whether thoughts, speech or bodily actions, however expressed, are kamma and lead the doer of them to experience a result sooner or later.
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SN 35.146: Kamma Sutta wrote: Katamañca, bhikkhave, navakammaṃ? Yaṃ kho, bhikkhave, etarahi kammaṃ karoti kāyena vācāya manasā, idaṃ vuccati, bhikkhave, navakammaṃ.

And what, bhikkhus is new kamma? Whatever action one does now by body, speech, or mind. This is called new kamma.
AN 6.63: Nibbedhika Sutta wrote: Cetanāhaṃ, bhikkhave, kammaṃ vadāmi. Cetayitvā kammaṃ karoti– kāyena vācāya manasā.

Intention, I tell you, is kamma. Intending, one does kamma by way of body, speech, & intellect.
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It is kamma that leads to the ending of kamma.

http://www.cittaviveka.org/files/books/ ... 0Kamma.pdf
And what is right speech? Abstaining from lying, from divisive speech, from abusive speech, & from idle chatter: This is called right speech.
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