Is the merit dedication a big or a small dedication or is it big and then small?

First big and then small. First of all, there is the general dedication.

Dedicate merit to the great monks and great virtues to live for a long time, spread the Dharma, and dedicate to all sentient beings to be free from suffering and happiness, and ultimately to be reborn in the Western Elysium.

Then, it is a dedication to specific people and things.

There is no size, Buddhism is the law of the heart, and the key to the amount of merit is the sincerity and respect of your chanting and chanting of the Buddha, that is, the single-mindedness, letting go of distracting thoughts and concerns. Actually, when you practice, you get the most benefit from your own practice, and other sentient beings are touching your light.

What we learn is the compassion of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for all sentient beings, and I wish that all sentient beings can be free from suffering and be happy. Therefore, the greater the scope of your dedication to helping sentient beings, the more special your benefits will be, and if it is only for your own dependents or yourself, the benefits will be very small.

Whether the merit is a major or small dedication, or a large and then a small dedication, depends on one's beliefs and habits. Generally speaking, merit dedication refers to the dedication of merit to all sentient beings, including one's relatives and friends, wronged creditors, ancestors, the deceased, and so on.

In Buddhism, merit is usually a combination of a large and a small dedication. Great dedication refers to dedicating merit to all sentient beings, including one's relatives and friends, wronged creditors, ancestors, the deceased, and so on. Small dedication refers to dedicating merit to a specific object, such as one's relatives and friends, wronged creditors, ancestors, deceased, etc.

In the dedication, it can be big first and then small, or small and then big. It depends on the individual's beliefs and habits. Generally speaking, first the greatest and then the lower refers to dedicating merit to all sentient beings, and then dedicating merit to a specific object.

Descending from small to great means dedicating merit to a specific object, and then dedicating merit to all sentient beings.

It is important to note that merit dedication is not a ritual, but an important part of Buddhist practice. In practice, one should dedicate merit to all sentient beings, not for one's own benefit. At the same time, we should also be careful not to overly pursue the magnitude and order of merit dedication, but to pay attention to the actual practice and the effect of merit dedication.

Dedication. It's to get rid of greed and I'm slow.

Why dedication.

Actually, when we chant sutras and mantras, the merits are already in them, and you can satisfy them wherever you want to dedicate them.

Why is there an emphasis on dedication?

Because we mortals have their attachments. As soon as we practice, we develop slowness, and we give rise to self-seeing, "I'm practicing, how am I?" and ego arises. After giving birth to ego, the mantras we recite are discounted or even ineffective, so we have to dedicate ourselves.

The main purpose of dedication is to get rid of ego.

Dedicate merit. Some people just like dedication, and think that his dedication is a kind of wealth, "I can give it to whoever I want!" He reciprocates with this idea, which is actually incorrect.

True dedication is aspectlessness, which should be dedicated to all sentient beings. With this back and forth, it is the process of removing the "me". Therefore, the process of removing "me" and the process of removing slowness is dedication.

So after the mantra is recited, it becomes more complete through our dedication.

If we don't have a dedication, but we can get rid of me, if we can empty me, then it's very straightforward. But sometimes we have to have a self-grasping in our mind-driven and latent consciousness, so we need to dedicate ourselves.

Dedication is to 'return' the merits, wisdom, good deeds, and good knowledge that you have cultivated to share with all beings in the Dharma Realm, rather than enjoying them alone, so as to broaden your mind and give your merits a clear direction without being lost.

Question: Is there a great merit for dedication?

Gen-la Kanmi replied: It is a great merit. But is your heart pure? It also has to do with whether the method is right or not.

Question: Is it dedicated to sentient beings, including unjust creditors, ghosts, and people?

Gen-la Kanmi replied: Of course, it does, it should include all sentient beings. In particular, what?

Whoever has hurt you the most, the more you should dedicate to him. Only by dedicating yourself to him can you reduce your hatred. For example, if you are very good to me, and I dedicate it to you, can this reduce your hatred?

It's not easy. You beat me, you scolded me, and I returned to you, do you see that the hatred is extinguished faster? Of course, it's a bit more difficult.

Why is it called difficult to do? Why can't it be done? If I want to drink juice, you can give me juice to drink, I don't like to drink Chinese medicine, don't you give me Chinese medicine to drink?

The key is that you can't practice like this, you have to be difficult to do, you can only endure it, and you can tolerate it. What does it mean to be intolerable? The enemy is intolerable.

Even if it is an enemy, I will tolerate you, so that the hatred will go quickly.

Q: Which is better, to dedicate to a loved one or to a loved one's deceased?

Gen-la Kanmi replied: Not necessarily. It still depends on your true motivation and method.

If you hear that it is better to dedicate merit to your enemy, then you can say, "Dedicate all my merits to my enemy." Is my merit gone?

Actually, it's not, it's a kind of greed at work, in fact, you haven't really extinguished the hatred in your heart, hum! When I have merit, see how I clean you up. It still has to do with whether your sincere heart is pure, and whether your heart is pure.

Question: Are the usual recitations of dedication and transcendence the same? If so, what are the differences?

Gen-la Kanmi replied: Its form is basically the same, but of course there are differences. The time, place, people, and rituals are a little different, right?

For example, if you are studying the Lengyan Sutra and the Sexual Dragon Master is also studying the Lengyan Sutra, are you the same? It's all about splitting and learning the "Lengyan Sutra"; Different, the realized things are different.

Isn't it? In the same way, chanting dedication, is your heart pure? Focused, not focused?

It's all different.

"Dedication" is actually different from "prayer". In "dedication", it is actually giving, giving, altruism, saving him, and so on. It is not the same as what we express what we want when we pray for blessings.

For example, the vernacular dedication at the end of the modern printed edition of the Jizo Sutra proposes the concept of "dedication to the creditors who complain, may they be free from suffering and happy." This establishes the most basic "kindness". "For him" is actually "for himself".

It's like when we are in debt, and the creditor always comes to find trouble, making our life uneasy. At this time, our intention should be to repay the debt as much as possible, so we should try to make money for the creditors and pay them back, which is a positive intention. Instead of talking about how to keep yourself from paying off your debts, such a motivation is not positive.

As long as the intention is for the sake of the creditors, even if you can't pay off the debt for a while, you should at least have a positive attitude and see if you can make up for the losses of others in other ways, so that you can gradually solve the problem. Return to a peaceful life.

So doing our homework and so on is equivalent to making money, accumulating results. What if you have the results, you have the money? To others, to those who are suffering.

For example, the concept of "resentful creditors" refers to the sentient beings we have harmed who have received bad karma. May they be free from suffering and be happy, that is, they are willing to give them the fruits of their accumulation, and this is merit. The less selfish you are, the more merit you have.

The more you are yourself, the more you affect your merits. The reason why we encourage "dedication" is that we should not have a private mind when we have results, but give them out so that everyone can get them clean, and once this thought is issued, it is a merit.

Therefore, if you want your husband's career to go well, it means that you want your husband to have an objective income without hindrances to his work. Then you might as well dedicate yourself to the idea of the vernacular dedication text at the back of the "Jizo Sutra", to the resentful creditors of the husband's life, and sincerely wish that the Bodhisattva will bless them with happiness from suffering, go to the Pure Land, and get a good home. Help your husband repent of his past mistakes.

Therefore, pray for the blessings of the Bodhisattva, so that the husband's obstacles will be resolved, his blessings will increase, and his career will be auspicious. We must have the heart that hopes that our husbands will increase their wisdom, so what is proposed here is that "blessing" and "wisdom" are also proposed. Because with wisdom, we can perceive good and evil, so if we have money, we will not create evil causes, we will not learn bad, on the contrary, with money, we will benefit sentient beings more, and in this way, we will accumulate more merits.

From there, it is immeasurable.

You should also persuade your husband to cooperate with your intentions. Let your husband strive to do good deeds after his career is successful, so that he will be more active. If the husband has an auspicious career, he will benefit the family and his children.

Helping others, this is altruism, you want your husband's career to be auspicious, this is also the heart of others, then this is a good state of operation.

However, temporary cramming is a limited effect, and it needs to be persisted in accumulating for a long time before it can be effective. It is indeed useful, and you can experience it yourself. Moreover, if you want to have an auspicious career or a considerable income, you need to make more financial donations and work seeds.

These need to be persistent, no matter what troubles and obstacles arise, follow the 3 years of perseverance, and experience the results yourself.

Dedication means looking back at the face, not enjoying the merits, wisdom, and good deeds of giving alms, doing good deeds, and reciting the Buddha's fortune, not for one's own selfishness, but for practicing the compassionate spirit of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas for the benefit of sentient beings, and tending to share them with the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, so as to broaden one's own mind, so that the merits have a clear direction and will not be scattered

Dedication is a very important part of the practice process, in general Buddhism chanting, morning and evening recitation, or in the monastery there are transcendence and auspicious pujas to eliminate disasters, and at the end of the dedication, dedication will have merit.

Dedication classificationReturning to the truth will make merit for the thousands of different things that have been cultivated, and then quickly burn back to the immortal and immortal true Dharma realm rational body.

Returning to cause and effect dedicates all the merits cultivated in the cause to the supreme Buddhahood.

Returning to himself, he dedicates all the merits he has cultivated to all sentient beings in the Dharma Realm.

Returning to the Hinayana heart of the great general who is conscious of himself, and returning to the self-interest of the Mahayana people.

Although there are few good roots, with a joyful heart, there is a great dedication to all sentient beings.

Returning to the inferior to Chang or winning will rejoice in the blessings of the two vehicles and return to the supreme Bodhi.