After making merit, one must diligently maintain the mind in a state of clarity and radiance throughout — for when merit arises, it continues to arise in an unbroken succession for at least seven days. Throughout those seven days from…
Whenever a difficult situation arose, the revered grandmother teacher would say, simply and characteristically: “Remember this — the less you sit in meditation, the more problems you have. The more you sit, the fewer problems there are.” Therefore, whenever a…
When one witnesses another person committing a wrongdoing and then cheers them on or expresses delight in what they have done, such a person — in the language of the Dhamma — is one who engages in anumodanā of wrongdoing.…
Close your eyes gently and reflect upon your merit. Bring to mind all the good that you have done throughout this entire week, right up to this very day — over the course of these past seven days, what wholesome…
Do not underestimate yourself by thinking that your merit is too little. Whatever form of merit-making one engages in, and however much or little it may be, one must accept the truth that for merit to bear fruit, merit too…
Merit and demerit — puñña and pāpa — are the principal causes by which human beings are born into vastly differing conditions and circumstances, each being the fruit of the kamma individually accumulated in previous existences. And yet the principal…
