01:840:211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Transfer Of Merit, Dharma, Dukkha
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To achieve this you have to do danna (giving, sacrificing) Principal in which such merit is made is by making donations to the sangha. Other forms include moral conduct, meditation, transferring merit, honoring others, hearing/preaching the dhamma. The beginningless cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again. Samsara is considered to be dukkha, unsatisfactory and painful, perpetuated by desire and avidya (ignorance), and the resulting karma. Ghost realm, one of the realms of the 4 unhappy realms of loss and woe. Describes the temporary attainment of rebirth as a peta (ghost)
