Karma in its richest reading is not a cosmic reward-and-punishment system but an account of causality — every action creates effects that travel forward, shaping what is possible for those who follow. The intergenerational dimension of karma makes legacy not only personal but collective: what a family or community carries from the past shapes what is available in the present. This puts the question of what we are releasing into the world at the center of ethical life.
Each step builds on the last.