Did I already mention this ......?
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Originally Posted by John Freestone  Steve doesn't even pretend to be humble: he's so clever he can outsmart karma. |
..... LOA/IM
is the manipulation of karma.
The key element of karma is intention. In an oversimplified nutshell:
think bad thoughts ---> do bad deeds ---> attract bad consequences
think good thoughts ---> do good deeds ---> attract good consequences
Buddhist teachings (since you're partial to them) tell you that the karma is created by the mere thinking of the intention. Eg suppose you intended to kill someone, and you succeeded. Compare to a situation where you intended to kill someone, but you failed (perhaps because he was a big strong guy trained in martial arts and he broke your arms before you could stab him).
Either way, you have accumulated very bad karma. The intention to kill - is the main thing. Whether you succeeded or not is a secondary point.
In LOA/IM, we see that:
think ABC ---> attract ABC.
That is all. ABC can be good / bad / amoral. It could be the famous "blue feather" experiment, or the famous "manifest-an-empty-parking lot" experiment, whatever. The point is:
think ABC ---> attract ABC.
That's karma.