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In the article "The Concept of Timelessness in Buddhism" in our General Buddhist discussions forum, are the following comments about the accumulation of merit:

"With the development of a very clear understanding of the mind process, it would become easy to comprehend that the timelessness cannot be experienced from this mind process. Thus the thought process or any actions taken as a self will be of no avail to move towards the final goal.
This may also open our eyes to question the relevance of the general belief that the accumulation of merits (which are in fact acts performed by a self within the thought process) is essential to become enlightened in a future life. With the realisation of impermanency of thoughts, the desire to cling on to thoughts would diminish and the practice of ‘let go’ of thoughts would become easy. However, this is only the beginning. Our attention has to be focused not on the thoughts, but to the point of arising of thoughts. "

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