Merit is never wasted |
While inviting people to attend the Robe Offering Ceremony on Magha Puja Day of 1990, I delivered the following address:
You can take merit with you. Even if you have only a little to make an offering, do it anyways. Little by little, your merit builds up, like putting coins into a piggy bank.
If you were a billionaire, but you never made any merit, then after death you will become empty-handed. Merit is the only thing you carry with you through the lifetimes. Merit is never a waste.
As for your worldly possessions, they no longer belong to you once you leave this world. Someone else will be using them, or they will fall back into the earth. |
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