The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.
16 August 2024“The best way to send merits is to make dāna because when you make dāna, you have peace and happiness from giving dāna and then you can dedicate that peace and happiness to the deceased.”
Question: After a sitting meditation can we send merits to the departed ones or any beings?
Than Ajahn: Not really, because you haven’t yet achieved the result from your meditation so there is nothing you can send.
When you attain jhāna, then you can send merits to the deceased.
The best way to send merits is to make dāna because when you make dāna, you have peace and happiness from giving dāna and then you can dedicate that peace and happiness to the deceased.
When you sit and meditate and when your mind has yet to become happy, then you have nothing to dedicate to the deceased. So usually people don’t use meditation as a form of dedicating merits, people use dāna.
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Question: If one makes offering or donates for the Sāsana, is it viable to have his or her name leave behind? What is the effect of leaving and not leaving the name behind?
Than Ajahn: There is no effect at all whether leaving or not leaving the name when you make offerings.
Actually if you want your name posted, you still have self-delusion, you are still attached to your name, to yourself. You get less merits by leaving your name behind than not doing so. You want to make merit without any condition, then you will reap the full benefits of your merit.
If you set conditions and when that condition is not met, it can make you unhappy.
Question: What is the proper way of offering a complete dāna?
Than Ajahn: Just give the dāna away and forget about it, don’t worry about what they will do with what you gave.
By Ajaan Suchart Abhijāto
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