Big ear?On Field of Merit website and on our Facebook page we have been talking about spiritual merit. If this is something you don’t understand or simply think it is petitioning prayer by another name I’d suggest you take a look around and see that sincere daily life practice within the Buddhist Precepts and transferring merit are not two different practices. Or you might conclude otherwise. However I’d encourage keeping an open mind on this one.

Here is the finishing paragraph of a recent post on Field of Merit site.

….when we ask for merit to be given to a partcular person who is suffering, we are not making any judgment as to what the outcome should be. The purpose of offering merit is to support the person to accept difficult circumstances, to live, sometimes to die, skilfully within them, and for the compassion of the universe to find expression.

From Field of Merit Post on Transfer of Merit

You might also want to take a look at an article first published in Shambhala Sun called She who hears the cries of the world. It’s a review of a book about Guanyin, known in our order as Kanzeon or Avalokitesvara.