According to the Buddhist teaching, kamma can be committed through the three doors of action ; actions done through the body, they are called kayakamma, those performed through speech called verbal action or vacikamma ; those performed through the mind, called mental action or manokamma.
Most people do not see through as a kind of action and fail to realize how they can be anything more than mere subjective phenomena. But it is interesting to note that Buddhism not only lists the function of the mind as constituting a kind of action but gives it prime significance. According to Buddhism, it is through mental action that man can be elevated to the highest stage of spiritual development and it is again mental action that one will be tempted to commit the most heinous crime. The cultivation of mind occupies the most important place in the Buddhist scheme of spiritual training.
