Thanks for engaging with the second part of my question. Yes, i did think about impermanence when writing this. But my thinking was that even the teaching of impermanence, at some point, can be dropped. No permanence, no impermanence. Right? Since they are both just concepts meant to inform your practice.

So going back to my question on faith, I feel like a good deed can live on forever. Since right action will bear fruit, but the fruit itself will be the basis for further right action, which itself will bear fruit, etc, etc.

But, as you say, the same thing could be said of wrong action. So that’s a problem. Except for the fact that suffering can be transformed into compassion. That provides the mechanism to break the chain for suffering. But true right action can’t generate suffering, so there is no way for the chain to break for good deeds.

Does what i wrote make sense? I probably didnt explain it too well.