Energy of Mantra/ Merit etc. CAN be transferred to another

Re Thubten
"In terms of your question merit is created in your mental continuum and cannot be transfered [sic], I think."

Re Fairylite
"can you post to have ppl send merit to a person? was wondering if this was possible. I hate to say it, but the person that can use a little help is me. I have been chanting the MB [ Medicine Buddha ] Sutra each day, and it helps ok. I don't want to impose on anyone, I just thought I'd ask."


Mantra energy or other good energy can and should be transferred to others. This is the whole point of the mahayana: to help others.

If we perform good acts and practices only for ourselves, then our spiritual practice and result will be very very limited. If however we offer the results of our practice to others then the spiritual benefit is multiplied.

If a person does a mahayana ( universal service ) or tantrayana ( integrative yoga ) practice such as Medicine Buddha only for themselves, then it is no longer mahayana by intention or in result. It is only a practice of individual liberation at best.

All tantric Buddhist practices begin with mahayana inspiration and end with mahayana dedication. We practice to help and free all, not just one or a few. This kind of intention and dedication is uniquely powerful in transforming the basis of ignorant grasping into pure awareness and freedom.

The whole point of the mahayana is to live for that which is highest in ourselves and others.

Guru Sakyamuni speaks of 500 impure previous lives ( i.e. lifetimes without mahayana intention ) and 500 pure lifetimes ( lifetimes upholding the mahayana vow ). It was the noble intention to take on the suffering of another in a lower realm that immediately freed Sakyamuni from the bondage of that bad migration.

When we recite mantras and consciously direct this energy to the sick, the emotionally disturbed, or the dying, or even for strangers on public transport, we are accomplishing something very significant and of long term benefit. ( In the esoteric practice of Mystic Sacrifice/ Chod, one gives mahayana blessing to disembodied spirits, and simultaneously releases the disturbing influences of one's own cognitive and behavioral mistakes and transgressions. )

Doing so is not only possible and appropriate, it is the whole point of the the mahayana practice. In helping each other with pure intention, we are ALREADY becoming more free, more aware, and more capable.

Wisdom, compassion, and power are one and the same on the innermost levels of bodhicitta and primordial pure awareness. There is no separation in the limitless ground of the originally pure nature of being.

One for all and all for one, THAT is the principle!

If you need help and good energy, then by all means ask. At the same time, what will really benefit you is to dedicate yourself to becoming pure and strong so that you can help others. It has always been this way. This is the breakthrough in awareness and intention that establishes a real connection to the Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Now you know.

So the dedication is, in Sanskrit
"sarva mangalam"
i.e.
May All Beings Benefit!

In the Lakota Sioux tradition of Ptecalasanwin, the prayer or statement always begins with
"All My Relations".

In the Hard Rock Cafe in London, the motto is
"Love All, Serve All"

The meanings are the same.


K T, inner medical tantrika

"Compassion is the greatest power in the universe."
Vajradhara Kalu Rinbochay