Merit For Well-Being And Happiness

This is Part 3 of a series of teachings introducing some of the factors relating to our true wellbeing and happiness from the Buddhist viewpoint.

How we live now produces our future, not only producing the external environment we experience, but it also produces our internal mental world. We are a product of ourselves. If we understand merit, we can contribute beneficially to the shift in our mental state
every day of our lives. As long as we are contributing the right thoughts, the right words, and the right actions, which are positive and wholesome, the shift will be positive, the shift will be beneficial for you, and it will be beneficial for the people you know because you are contributing positivity to their world.

This is the nature of the journey that we are on in life, and it's based on kamma. The good kamma we perform is called merit. How we live moment to moment is therefore very powerful.

Credits to speakers/teachers Frank Carter and Simon Kearney