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**AblemTee** · 01-10-2011, 10:30 PM

I've always been uneasy about the idea of doing things to purposely 'accumulate merit' because it seems a contrived reason to do good things.

From the perspective of Zen it is not a wholesome practice to "accumulate merit..."; We think is a kind of becoming and birth.

01-10-2011, 10:30 PM	#8
AblemTee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	I've always been uneasy about the idea of doing things to purposely 'accumulate merit' because it seems a contrived reason to do good things. From the perspective of Zen it is not a wholesome practice to "accumulate merit..."; We think is a kind of becoming and birth.
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