"Compassionate acts can alter your fate... conversely, acts of viciousness can adversely affect your fate"
A friend of mine posted in fb: "nearly cried at work tonight when I had to throw away baskets and baskets of perfectly good food. So wrong!!!!" I too thought that it is so very wrong!.
In Buddhism, the performance of good actions gives rise to merit, a quality which purifies and cleanses the mind. Merit is important to help us along our journey through life...
...it is connected to what are good and beneficial to oneself and others, and can improve quality of the mind. While the material wealth a person gathers can be lost by theft, flood, fire, etc., the benefit of merits follows him from life to life and cannot be lost, although can be exhausted if no attempts are made to perform more merits.
The Buddha further explained that, merit opens the doors of opportunity everywhere. A meritorious person will succeed in whatever venture he puts his effort into. Good deeds performed will manifest in many ways and be the fountainhead of many wondrous results (and in my opinion, sometimes the receiving end could be the people close to you).
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