Depending on kamma

Citta and cetasika, which are both mental phenomena, nama, arise because

of their appropriate conditions. Wholesome qualities and unwholesome

qualities which arose in the past can conditon the arisng of such qualities at

present. Since our life is an unbroken series of cittas, succeeding one

another, wholesome qualities and unwholesome qualities can be accumulated

from one moment to the next moment, and thus there are conditions for their

arising at the present time.

Some cittas are results of akusala kamma and kusala kamma, they are

vipakacittas. Kamma is intention or volition. When there is unwholesome

volition it can motivate an unwholesome deed which can bring an unpleasant

result later on, and when there is wholesome volition it can motivate a

wholesome deed which can bring a pleasant result later on. Akusala kamma

and kusala kamma are accumulated from one moment of citta to the next

moment, and thus they can produce results later on. Kamma produces result

in the form of rebirth-consciousness, or, in the course of life, in the form of

seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and the experience of tangible object

through the bodysense. These vipakacittas experience pleasant objects or

unpleasant objects, depending on kamma which produces them.