Hello Cat,
I did not realize you had been reading the forum for a while. I thought you were new to the forum.
- So, some of the posts I recommended (on the thread “Contact with Noble Sangha“) could be familiar to you. I thought that was your first post on this forum.
P.S. Regarding your question above: “One thing that I didn’t grasp fully was what “offering your merits” actually means and therefore I didn’t do it this time, but of course I would like to pay as much of my own debts in the future.”
- The case of the two bhikkhus discussed in my earlier comment above (on this thread) is an exception since it was figures out by the Buddha.
- These days, no one knows what type of debt each of us is carrying (due to past deeds). We don’t know to whom such debts we owe. So, we can only engage in metta bhavana and “give merits to all beings” each time we do a good deed.
- Also see “Transfer of Merits (Pattidāna) – How Does it Happen?.”
