What is considered being good ? If your physical and vocal actions are not harmful to you as well as to others, you will be called good. What are physical and vocal actions? Physical and vocal actions are offspring of mental action. They are mental actions which generate physical or vocal actions. Example: first anger arises in your mind (mental action).... which makes you to scold, to abuse (vocal action)..... and finally to beat (physical action). Physical and vocal actions are just follower of mental action. Physical and mental actions are servants of mental action. To have your physical/vocal actions harmless, you have to have your mental actions (thoughts) harmless. If your mind is clean, your physical and vocal actions can not be harmful. But if your mind is dirty ie full of negativities like anger, hatred, ill will animosity, jealousy, greed, ego etc, it is impossible to speak sweet words and to act good. So, mental actions (thoughts) are the root of all actions. Basically you will be considered good if your mind is full of positive emotions like compassionate love, good will, generosity, sympathy, joy, selflessness, helpfulness etc. In fact if you analyze what we are,... is how we think. In other word: Mind is what we call "I" In conclusion being good means to have clean mind. Dhamma is a dynamic technique which teaches how to clean the mind. Dhamma is all about cleaning the mind. (I am sorry I really don't understand what do you mean by the last question? :) I mean go all out with it..?)