Merit Accumulation
Creating positive karmic energy through virtuous actions.
Merit is accumulated through generosity, ethical conduct, and meditation. Combined with wisdom, it creates the causes for enlightenment. Merit can be dedicated to all beings.
May this merit benefit all sentient beings.
Merit accumulation with wisdom is essential for enlightenment.
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- What Tibetan Buddhism says about envy and comparison
Merit is built through generosity, ethical conduct and meditation, and nothing in the account makes it a fixed supply that another person's fortune draws down. This is the structural reason mudita is held to be possible at all, rather than merely admirable.