Can merit be transferred to deceased relatives or friends?
“Dedicating” positive potential (merit) rather than “transferring” it conveys the meaning better. We cannot transfer merit the way we can transfer the title to a piece of property or the way I can give you my car because you don’t have one. Those who create the causes are the ones who experience the results. I cannot create the cause and have your experience the result, because the imprint or seed of the action has been implanted on my mindstream, not yours. So if our deceased relatives and friends didn’t act constructively while they were alive, we cannot create good karma and then give it to them. However, our prayers and offerings on their behalf can create the circumstances necessary for a positive action they created to bear fruit. A seed planted in a field needs the cooperative conditions of sunshine, water, and fertilizer to grow. Likewise, a seed or imprint of an action will ripen when all the cooperative conditions are present. If the deceased have done beneficial actions whil
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