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Vipāka

The ripening of karma: the results that intentional actions bring in this or future lives.

Also: Vipaka, karmic result

Early Buddhism and the Theravāda

Vipāka is the fruit or result of karma. Buddhism teaches that wholesome actions ripen as happiness and unwholesome ones as suffering, though not mechanically and often after long delay. The Buddha called the precise working of karmic results one of the imponderables, not to be speculated about.