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(Quote) The point is you can't "give" your merit to anyone else. All you can do is to inform someone else about a good deed you have performed. Then it is entirely up to what that other per… (View Post)
@vinlyn Let me try to explain it this way. One gains good karma/merit by performing actions that involve wholesome mental states. So, for example, if I offer food to the Sangha I would thereby gain g… (View Post)
(Quote) From what I have gathered from those who have tried drugs and actually benefited from it, most also recognize that the benefit from drugs is limited to being a kind of eye opener into the pos… (View Post)
When we talk about meditation in the context of the entire Buddhist practice, the issue of morals cannot be ignored because morals, concentration and wisdom are very closely interrelated. In the Sura… (View Post)
In many Buddhist countries, it is part of the culture to regularly offer alms to the Sangha in the name of deceased relatives in order to dedicate the merit to them. Here, I want to look at the ratio… (View Post)