“We need to see how our conscious thoughts (vaci sankhara and kaya sankhara) lead to births in various realms, and first suppress/remove those sankhara that lead to births in the apayas”.(Lal)
sutta references for the relation between our kind of mental, verbal and phyiscal actions and their results are:
From Anguttara Nikāya:
-AN3.111, AN4.233, AN6.39, AN10.216
From Majjhima Nikāya:
-MN45, MN46, MN129,
also ofcourse the sutta on kamma MN135 and MN136
AN10.47 is also interesting. It lists greed, hate and delusion as causes and conditions for the doing of bad kamma, like usual in the sutta Piṭaka but lists also careless attention and wrongly directed mind as causes and conditions
It lists also non-greed, non hatred, non delusion and carefull attention and a rightly directed mind as causes and conditions for doing of good kamma, for the occurance of good kamma.
This list of sutta’s is not complete.
kind regards,
Siebe