ACI Formal Study Course 5: How Karma Works, with Cliff Spencer Karma has come into common use in our culture - blamed or cheered for everything from missing the parking spot to having the perfect person fall into (or out of) our lives. But while we're open to the idea that karma - the law of cause and effect - is operating in our lives, we don't get how it works or how to create the karma to get the stuff we want and avoid the stuff we don't. Learn how, according to Buddhist scripture, karma really works.