Scoring Sheet on Merits

100 Merits

-         Save one’s life

-         Save a Woman’s Chastity

-         Prevent the drowning of a child by parents

-         Help continue the family lineage

 

50 Merits

-         Prevent one abortion

-         Resist temptations (sexual misconduct)

-         Provide for one homeless person

-         Bury the remains of a homeless person

-         Prevent one person from becoming homeless

-         Prevent one person from committing a serious crime

-         Clear one person of an injustice

-         Give a speech that benefits many

 

30 Merits

-         Donate cemetery land for a family without land

-         Convert another to the virtuous way

-         Facilitate a marriage

-         Facilitate another in taking the religious vows

-         Take in an orphan

-         Help another accomplish a virtuous act

 

10 Merits

-         Recommend a virtuous person

-         Remove a source of trouble for another

-         Cure a serious illness with one remedy

-         Speak with virtue

-         Treat servants properly

-         Save the life of an animal that serves man

-         Refrain from using power and wealth for one’s own self-interest

-         Publish or edit the teachings of Buddha

 

5 Merits

-         Prevent one litigation

-         Communicate over a life-saving method

-         Edit a book on life-saving methods

-         Cure one minor illness with a remedy

-         Urge another to stop the spreading of ill words about others

-         Make offerings to one saintly person

-         Pray for others

-         Make a vow not to kill

-         Save the life of an animal that does not serve man

 

3 Merits

-         Endure a mistreatment without ill-will

-         Take slander without reaction

-         Accept words that are not to one’s liking

-         Urge silkworm growers, fishermen, hunters and butchers to change to another profession

-         Bury an animal that died on its own.

 

1 Merit

-         Praise another’s merit

-         Hide another’s demerit

-         Peacefully resolve an argument

-         Stop another from making a mistake

-         Fed one who is hungry

-         Provide one night’s lodging for a homeless person

-         Help another in the cold

-         Offer one medication

-         Give one article for helping others

-         Chant one chapter of sutra (Buddha’s teachings)

-         Do one hundred prostration for repentance

-         Chant Buddha’s name for one thousand times

-         Speak on the truth to ten people

-         Organize projects that help ten people

-         Offer one meal to a monk

-         Provide for one monk

-         Do not turn away a beggar

-         Provide relief for tired animals and people

-         Comfort others when they are worried

-         For meat eaters to be vegetarian for one day

-         Do not eat meat from the animal one has seen, heard it being killed or killed specifically for oneself

-         Bury a bird that has died on its own

-         Release one life

-         Save a minute life (bugs, etc)

-         Help departed spirits to move on

-         Give money and clothing to people

-         Forgive a debt

-         Return a lost article

-         Do not take improper wealth

-         Help others pay debt

-         Offer land

-         Encourage others to donate to charity

-         Do not take goods stored for others

-         Build grain storage facilities, bridges, roads, clear rivers, dig wells, build and repair temples and statues of enlightened beings

-         Make offerings of incense, lamp oil, tea

-         Give away a coffin

-         Save papers with thousand words (Spiritual writings)