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Dear Balgore

For starters (I may write more at a later time), if your mind has anatta, your actions will automatically be harmless actions & good actions.

Please consider, is it when our mind is selfish that it can generate actions that can harm others?

On the other hand, is it when our mind is unselfish or selfless that it cannot generate actions that can harm others?

But yes, until our mind tastes the liberation & inevitability of anatta, it may seem 'cold' to view the misfortune of 'others' as anatta.

Kind regards

Thanks Element.

As I was driving home and thinking more on this topic, I had come to the conclusion that obviously no one who is enlightened is evil (and whether or not you have to be good to get there, or that turning good is a consequence of enlightenment doesnt really matter, thats just the way it is).

And, reflecting on the Buddha quotes provided by Aloka-D above, it further made sense to me that obviously you cannot be enlightened and do 'bad' things.

But, I still did not really understand WHY.

So, I came on here to ask deeper into, but you beat me to it Element!
Please consider, is it when our mind is selfish that it can generate actions that can harm others?

On the other hand, is it when our mind is unselfish or selfless that it cannot generate actions that can harm others? Those two questions answered that for me and bring it into perspective.

There is still sort-of a subquestion that still remains however... I now understand that an enlightened mind cannot be 'evil', and why. But, I still don't really understand why it necessarily has to "do good", and not just regard everything as "equal" or "neutral"?

Do you perhaps have more to add on to that?

Thanks