“We’ve always planting karmic seeds. Everything we do, think, or say is a sown seed. Therefore, the logical extension of 'you reap what you sow' is that a key task in life is to choose the right seeds and plant them skillfully, in the right way, at the right time, under the right conditions. If you want to grow apples, you have to plant apple seeds. Planting crabgrass seeds in hopes of seeing apple blossoms is either madness or ignorance. So is doing harmful or unethical things and hoping they’ll produce the fulfilling life you hope to enjoy in the future. The question arises, then: Which actions give rise to desirable karma, and which produce the opposite? On the one hand, it’s so simple we don’t need book chapters like this one. As the Dalai Lama was reputed to have said, 'No need for temples. No need for complicated philosophy. Your own mind, your heart is the temple. Your philosophy is simple kindness.' “