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THE QUESTION OF MERIT (PUNYA) AND PRAYING TO OTHERS IN BUDDHISM: What is “merit” and why is it important to accumulate as a Buddhist practitioner and “Do Buddhists pray to external beings?

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"Just as a drop of water that falls into the great ocean Will never disappear until the ocean itself runs dry, Merit totally dedicated to enlightenment Will never disappear until enlightenment is reached." ཇི་ལྟར་ཆུ་ཐིགས་རྒྱ་མཚོ་ཆེ་ནང་ལྷུང༌། །རྒྱ་མཚོ་མ་ཟད་བར་དུ་དེ་མི་འཛད། ། དེ་བཞིན་བྱང་ཆུབ་ཡོངས་བསྔོས་དགེ་བ་ཡང༌། །བྱང་ཆུབ་མ་ཐོབ་བར་དུ་དེ་མི་འཛད། ། Consciousness (namshé) is impermanent. Wisdom (yeshé) is permanent. རྣམ་ཤེས་ནི་མི་རྟག་པའོ། ། ཡེ་ཤེས་ནི་རྟག་པའོ། ། --Buddha Shakyamuni, Questions of… Continue reading THE QUESTION OF MERIT (PUNYA) AND PRAYING TO OTHERS IN BUDDHISM: What is “merit” and why is it important to accumulate as a Buddhist practitioner and “Do Buddhists pray to external beings?

THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING WITH THE “EYES OF KARMA”, ACCUMULATING MERIT, SPINNING PRAYER WHEELS AND WEARING MANTRAS.  (8th Garchen Rinpoche Teachings (April 2022)

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‘All the wishes of a person who possesses merit will be accomplished and no demonic obstacles can cause them any harm.  They will quickly attain the state of liberation.’ “Until the two-fold accumulations have been completed, one will not realize the true meaning of emptiness.’ --scriptural quotations cited by 8th Garchen Rinpoche (April 2022) “So… Continue reading THE IMPORTANCE OF SEEING WITH THE “EYES OF KARMA”, ACCUMULATING MERIT, SPINNING PRAYER WHEELS AND WEARING MANTRAS.  (8th Garchen Rinpoche Teachings (April 2022)