the law of karma

Basic definition: Karma is a sanskrit word and a concept
of eastern religions. Simply explained, it is a sum of all that
an individual has once done and is currently doing. The Effects
of those deeds actively create all that is to happen and determine
every present and future experience, thus completely excluding
random chance.

In Buddhist teaching, the law of Karma, says only this: "For every
event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence
was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or
unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful."

A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving,
resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied
by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but
are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.)

Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful
actions is born by the person who commits them.