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Merit

• To accumulate merit means to decrease afflictive emotions. It means to increase love and compassion.
• Accumulate merit by engaging the mind in accumulating moments of loving kindness and compassion, and body and speech in six perfections.
• Need lots of merit to attain realization. Need to be strong to pick up heavy object.
• Faith and devotion is merit.
• Doubt conventional reality that appears. If grasping takes over, this is a sign of lack of merits.
• We accumulate merit and wisdom to attain rupakaya and dharmakaya to benefit others.
• Accumulate merit by making and keeping vows.
• Merit is positive energy. One person working for the benefit of others out of love.
• Every person you make happy is your accumulation. Bodhisattvas do this on a vast scale.
• Renunciation thought is merit. Dedicate this.
• Courage comes from merit.
• Accumulating merit is like cultivating field – it is preparation.
• Offer food to the Three Jewels to develop merit.