According To The Dhamma

Mind Precedes All Mental States 377

“Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is the their chief, they are all mind-wrought”. When the mind gives rise to a thought, that thought will lead, will master, and will trigger the next things, and the next things here are words and actions. The mind, words, and actions will create wholesome karma or unwholesome karma, which will bring happiness, peace, or suffering and sadness in human life.[...]

To Cultivate Good 576

After teaching us to understand suffering and the causes that lead to suffering, the Buddha showed us a path, the path that He and many generations of Buddhas have walked, the Bodhisattva path, diligently learning from the sages, diligently doing good deeds, not harming animals and human, cultivating and nurturing good karma to bring joy and peace to all beings, these actions can be called “good deeds” that the Buddha[...]