Scion

first, I feel that anyone quoting sciptures and talking about god is befooled by fake organized religion, so id advise thinking with your own brain. I wont even get into the dirty origins of organized religion, basically theyre organs of the state (kingdoms empires etc) and closely akin to military, and awash with the lowest ilk of humanity. Just the fact.

Next, someone said that karma is the intention on action. Im not sure how he surmised that, it seems sage was quoting something, but that does not seem correct.

Karma literally means action, but the connotation is for actions and reactions. Surely intention plays a role, it may even 'soften' karmic reactions, and ill give an example later. But the action itself, despite how it was intended, is the seed of the reaction it caiuses in your existence. Unfavorable karma can resulted from actions that were
1) well intended
2) intended with malice
3) careless or unintentional

Having good karmic intention means taking the time to learn understand develop and evolve the ways of good karma and find the truly enlightened spiritual practices. This is the territory of the true seeker of wisdom and the spiritual scholar, not someone attached to any religious dogma or without a broad range of knowledge and experience with those of the highest spiritual cultures.

The organized religions are the slavery trash the belligerent strain of northern europeans brought with them when they invaded the rest of the world. they are not true spirituality, no matter how flowery the words or persuasive the manipulation. Its all lies/propaganda for the naive. They have mucho blood on their hands and evil secrets in their closets.

Good karma means not causing offense harm or suffering to any living entities, as much as possible. if you can get to where scratching your arm-as someone said before--is the worst karma you do, thats pretty good. Good karma is the way of kindness, restraint, austerity, cessation, consideration, and carefulness. Cars are quite bad karma, a lot of what is norm in the modern world is bad karma. One must be aware of all ones actions in the sensitive living universe...and life is everywhere all around os. It is a way of walking, moving, and behaving with gentleness.

Ultimately, the best form of karma is no-karma, the karma free state, manifested as meditation or akarma (no karma), in which the mind and body are still and pure, and in a state of heightened, clear awareness (consciousness). Stillness, silence, detachment, contentment...

oh, and an example of intention softening karma...basically the reaction caused from a harmful action that was well intended or careless will be, although unpleasant, somehow well-intended, unintentional, careless, or accidental in origin, rather than receiving harm from purposeful malice, etc. Such injury, physical or subtle, will therefore be less traumatic and severe, just as your action was not intended with malice. The reaction will nevertheless come.

On the subtle metaphysical level, however, reactions may be minimized if a person immediately realizes their offense, misconduct, or carelessness, and takes steps to atone for what was done directly or in some way. In this way, it seems, karmic reactions can be checked or transformed into, say, an oppurtunity to help someone/some being, which will rehabilitate the spirit and counteract the effects of the negative karma--or cleanse that karma away.