Dhamma for Lifestyle (28)

Sharing of Merit (Pattidana)

Making a wish that whatever merit that one may have earned by performing a good deed be shared with others so that they might profit equally is the concept of sharing of merit.
Not only is the amount of merit that one earns not lessened by this transfer, but others stand to gain the same amount that one has earned.
Reference: A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms. Yangon, Ministry of Religious Affairs, 1996.
 
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