13 November 2023
Wānaka
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche
Jordan Ranson of Manaaki Media interviews Rinpoche during his 2023 visit to New Zealand.
What is merit? In general terms it can be equated with good karma: accumulated by doing good things to benefit sentient beings. However, our aim should not be simply to accumulate vast amounts of merit by performing good deeds. Offering flowers in a temple, for example, is one way of gaining merit and offering one flower, or 500 flowers has the same merit. Offering a visualization of a flower is just as effective. Quantity is not important but intention is crucial. When a buddhist offers a flower in a temple with the motivation of asking the Buddha to help them to go beyond good and bad karma and achieve liberation, they are generating the purest kind of merit.
Onsite Translation: Spanish
A worldwide network of buddhist practitioners studying and practising under the guidance of Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche.
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