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Four foundations of meditation

Merit

Sowing goodness through action.

Merit is the work that brings benefit and peace to others, and the good fortune that work plants for the future. This topic gathers articles on blessing and virtue, helping others, vows for the future, and stories of good deeds done without claiming credit.

Articles: 24

Karma and its results

Articles: 8
  1. Merit and virtue4 min read
  2. Helping others15 min read
  3. Merit from the past15 min read
  4. Aspiration for the future5 min read
  5. Virtue in the present9 min read
  6. The positive meaning of liberation5 min read
  7. The monastic6 min read
  8. Merit13 min read

The fairness of cause and effect

Articles: 2
  1. Telling wrongdoing from merit in a new age12 min read
  2. How Bodhisattvas apply the law of cause and effect in teaching living beings7 min read

The psychology of ethics

Articles: 3
  1. A life of altruism45 min read
  2. What is liberation for?51 min read
  3. Dedication44 min read

Meditation textbook

Articles: 1
  1. The Bodhisattva Path12 min read

Foundations of ethics

Articles: 10
  1. Kindness4 min read
  2. Forgetting one's merits3 min read
  3. The beauty of the soul3 min read
  4. The benefactor4 min read
  5. Giving4 min read
  6. Enjoyment runs out5 min read
  7. Seizing or helping3 min read
  8. Wrongdoing and merit4 min read
  9. One life, one forest5 min read
  10. Work7 min read