At the end of some buddhist ceremony we would do something called sharing of merits, which is the sharing of our good karma with others. One person would be pouring water in a bowl and we would all chant : Idam me natinam hotu sukhita hontu niakayo 3x times  Before we get into the details of sharing merit we have to define what is merit. There are 10 forms of meritBuddhist,