Mind is the forerunner of all things.

mind is chief, mind-made are they;
suffering follows an evil thought even as the wheel of a cart follows the hoof of the ox.

Mind is the forerunner of all things.

Mind is chief, mind-made are they;
If one speaks or acts with a pure mind,Then happiness follows him like the shadow that never leaves.

The non-doing of any evil,
the performance of what's skillful,
the cleansing of one's own mind:
this is the teaching
of the Awakened.