Does imagination also create kamma? What is the difference between imagination and intent?
Does imagination also create kamma?
Can someone help me explain this in simpler terms?
Mental activity is, too, a type of activity.
This includes thinking, imagination, mulling over ideas, cultivating certain mind states and suppressing others.
Repeated thinking on some topic (including imagination) habituates the mind to that theme. Habituation affects the mind's tendencies and dispositions.
Metta meditation works by changing the mind's habits. Imagination is a simple brother of meditation, so it works similarly just at a more crude level.
Karma is not something magical, it only seems magical when you don't understand how it works. It works simply by creating latent causes that change the odds of certain things happening or not happening.
Mental activity such as imagination is yet another source of such latent causes.