Letters Hieu In Buddhism.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

... Actually, if life and people are sacred, priceless, so is the Piety, which is the beautiful and sacred life meaning of human beings, not just a conditional social relationship. as required by law.

... Vietnamese folk songs believe in the law of cause and effect of Buddhism, through empirical experience, it is said that filial piety is a necessary lesson to teach children so good people. If you are not filial, then your child will be unfamiliar with you later. This is also an educational responsibility of Vietnamese parents:

 “If you are filial to Mother Father

I would like you to be different

If I eat in a nonsense

Do not expect filial piety to do anything. "

... The son who receives the Father's Father's name, even though he understands the meaning through books ... still does not have a deep sense of grace, until the adult child gets married, being a parent, raising a child of a new family. From this profound feeling came the attitude of repaying grace into a sincere respect.

... The life of a person pays the grace of birth, nourishment with material wealth, money and mercy. Buddhism conceives that return is not enough. The son also has the duty to bring the righteous and righteous Father and Mother, to introduce the path of liberation of the precepts to help the Mother's Father eliminate the negative karma, to grow good karma, and gradually go to liberate the suffering of the death. pain. This response is called the response of the Buddhist, or the intellectual; only by this response is it commensurate with the merits of the Parents.

Letters Hieu In Buddhism.

Every year according to the tradition of Vietnamese Buddhism, every day when the monks come down (on the fourth day of their own), all Buddhists will celebrate Vu Lan ceremony, to show their filial piety in accordance with the moral example of the Venerable Pastor. Kien Lien. That day, Buddhists worshiped, heard preaching about filial piety, wished the Mother's Mother's life and prayed for the dead.

Hieu is often understood as the noble virtue of man in most areas of human culture. It is the attitude of life that expresses gratitude for the birth and nurturing of our great benefactor.

Talking is a response to gratitude which is a way of saying. In fact, if life and people are sacred, priceless, so is the Piety, which is the beautiful and sacred life meaning of human beings, not just a socially conditioned relationship like law fixed.

Through different cultures, the notions of filial piety and form of filial piety also differ. Here we only display the filial words in the concept of the popular Vietnamese and the filial piety through Buddhist Sutra.

Hieu through Vietnamese folk songs and poetry

Speaking of the gratitude of parents, Vietnamese folk songs have many, typically:

"The father as a mountain,

Meaning of mother like water in the source flowing out,

One Heart Worship Mother Glass Father,

Let the new word be full of filial piety. ”

The love of the Father is so serious that the Father is like a tall mountain, Mother's love is gentle and gentle, so Mother's meaning is like an endless stream.

That noble sense was repeated many times by Vietnamese folk singers with respect and respect:

"Father means a great Mother

Hardship does not manage for life

So people, we have to be sad

A temple that means heavy is like a high heaven. ”

"Father means a tall mother

He bears the eggs in his childhood days

Raising children up to now

I have to know how to worship my parents. ”

"Thank you for the nine hardships,

The birth of a few young and high births. ”

The Vietnamese knife also speaks more clearly and clearly about the Mother's grace:

“Raising a child without managing his body

Wet side Mother lying on the roller side

Knowing some hardships

Up young, turn the stone to build a worshiping tomb. "

"Gratitude and gratitude like a tank

Great education for young people. ”

“Be grateful to the nine hardships

How many love years of love? ”

Parents are not just benefactors, but exist as the life and happiness of their children. Lacking Parents, the child will be helpless, lost and lacking in the meaning of life:

"I have a Father like a house with a roof

I don't Father like tadpole tails. ”

"And Father heeled red like paint

One day Father loses the heel of the black one. ”

"And the Father and Mother are better

No Father is not Mother like a broken string.

The cord is broken and hands are connected

My parents died and I had to be orphaned. ”

My dear mother is often closer and more caring and petting her child than Father, so she often confesses more serious feelings about Mother:

"Father orphans eat rice with fish

Orphaned Mother lined up leaves. "

"Old mother is like a banana

Like sticky rice, like sugar cane. "

The Vietnamese commoner attaches great importance to the Hieu word, sometimes the girl voluntarily stays by her Father's side to take care of herself and not get married:

"Gratitude and gratitude like a tank

Great education for the river

I curse so no husband

Take care of Parents wholeheartedly as children. ”

Hieu is not a loving relationship between Parents and children, but also a source of liberation, which is the best condition for people:

"Where to cultivate your home

Father and Mother's Worship is also a monk. "

Vietnamese folk songs believe in the law of cause and effect of Buddhism, through empirical experience it is said that filial piety is a necessary lesson to teach children so good people. If you are not filial, then your child will be unfamiliar with you later. This is also an educational responsibility of Vietnamese parents:

“If you are filial to Mother Father

I would like you to be different

If I eat in a nonsense

Do not expect filial piety to do anything. "

"Hieu is willing to give birth to a filial piety

Any adversity I have is different

Check out before the torrential rain

It's not wrong to drop after the first drop. ”

Sharing the filial piety of the popular masses, Vietnamese scholarly literature also determines filial piety as the noble virtue of man. Through the famous poem "Doan Truong Tan Thanh", Nguyen Du let Kieu to sell herself to ransom her father, putting great fondness on love, even if she had to go to the school. During the lost days, Kieu still remembers the old Father, afraid of lack of supporters:

“The courtyard is a bit naive

Tram cam who helps me instead. " 

Nguyen Trai, the first student, said:

"Thick high-altitude isle

Worrying respectfully night and day insisting.

...

When we are warm, we take care of them

See rice porridge for medicine in every way.

Visit and visit every time

The momentum is insensitive, I am relieved, "

The child, though receiving the Father's Father's name, even though he has learned the meaning through books ... still does not have a deep sense of grace, until an adult child is married and a Father , raising children of a new family. From this profound feeling came the attitude of repaying grace into a sincere respect. Nguyen Trai wrote:

“Raising a child knows the heart of the Father

Seeing confusion, it is very good.

Just like you said before:

"Nursing nursing home to the model."

and "The school of those who have a good bridge."

In addition to serving and serving parents, to inform the filial piety, the children also have the duty to preserve the family, the honorary property of the family and the homeland. When Nguyen was escorted to the North by the Ming army, Nguyen Phi Khanh told Nguyen Trai, the son was following the tools of crying and crying:

“I am a learned person, so I seek to wash humiliation for the country, revenge for the Father. That is the great taste. Is it just that I have to follow Father crying like a woman to be curious? ”

After that, Nguyen Trai deceived the Le Loi village and defeated the invading Ming army. Here, Hieu is synonymous with Trung (similar to the sense of hospitality to the people). Hieu because of people's happiness.

Mr. Nguyen Du, the concept of Trinh is Trinh in his heart, so his fondness is like a virgin, it is a beautiful heart:

"As if you have a taste for virginity,

No matter how much he lent, he borrowed it. ”

Thanks to the widespread conception of filial piety. In the middle, love letters, so in Vietnam, there are few tragic attacks caused by conflicts of Tinh, Hieu and Trung. However, the filial piety in Buddhist teachings still has a wider meaning, more profound, and freed than the Hieu through Vietnamese folk songs and poetry.

Hieu in Buddhist Sutra

Discrimination

“I have gone through many diligent lives, now becoming Buddhas, all thanks to my parents. So, people who want to study religion cannot help but be diligent with their parents. ”

The Sutra Sutra records:

"Being a child to the Father and Mother offering a feast of sacrifices is an immense merit, doing unwholesome deeds to my Father, and the sin is immeasurable."

The Patience of the Patience teaches:

"The supreme good is Chi Hieu, the evil evil is incompetent."

According to the karmic theory of the Tibetan and Tibetan teachings, the Buddhist tradition of placing the sins of murdering the Father, killing the Mother in five very serious crimes is called "the Five Crimes of Crime" (Crime of killing the Father, the murder of Mother, the murder of Arhat. Han, guilty of bleeding the Buddha's body, and guilty of destroying the Sangha. That is enough to indicate the importance of filial piety in Buddhist teachings.

Good Birth Sutra (Or Sutra 6-way ceremony):

This sutra recognizes the relationship of parents and children as a sacred relationship worthy of worship and reverence, such as the worship of the Brahmin of the Brahma. Here, the child has the following obligations to Parents:

- Obeying Parents, helping Parents when needed

- Work hard, diligently work

- Keeping the family and honor of the family

- Maintain parents' property

- Serving Parents at old age

- Fear of the funeral when the parents died.

- Encourage, introduce the path of liberation, right view, to the Parents.

“There are two classes of people, monks. I say it cannot be repaid: Mother and Father. If one shoulder carries Father, one shoulder carries Mother, does so all the time, both fights and serves, and even though Father and Mother are peeing, defecation is not enough to respond to Mother and Father. "

That Religion is the deepest grace that is hard to pay. Therefore, he declared filial piety to his parents as the highest virtue of the son:

"Between bipedal species

The mind is dark

In the boys row

Hieu pros is dark victory "

He considers reverence for Parents as two of the four most joyful and happy of Buddhists (At home and renunciation).

"Glad to honor Mother!

Glad to honor Father!

Glad to replace Sa glass!

Harmony and Sangha, happy. ”

The difference between the meaning of filial piety in the Buddhist perspective and the sense of filial piety according to the common conception of the Vietnamese people

* Thank you Parents:

The public often acknowledges the gratitude to parents through the following points:

- Suffering during pregnancy.

- Pain at birth

- Strenuous raising, nurturing

- Lo friends, marry your children

- Worry a lot when you hurt

- Build children so good people.

Buddhism recognizes a great grace of Parents: thanks to the Parents bring their children to life, from which the child has the charm of studying the path of liberation, understanding and practicing. Because liberation is the supreme value, the grace of Mother and Mother is the greatest gift that cannot be rewarded with material and hard work.

* Regarding the aspect of gratitude:

The life of a person pays the grace of birth, nourishment with material wealth, money and mercy. Buddhism conceives that return is not enough. The son also has the duty to bring the righteous and righteous Father and Mother, to introduce the path of liberation of the precepts to help the Mother's Father eliminate the negative karma, to grow good karma, to gradually go to liberate the suffering of the death and death. pain. This response is called the response of the Buddhist, or the intellectual; only by this response is it commensurate with the merits of the Parents. The Buddhist filial piety therefore does not necessarily meet all the requirements of the Parents if those requirements are not consistent with the dharma (illegal, illegal). It is this acts of filial piety that truly bring peace to the Parents and to the family and society in the present and in the future,

World Religion teaches:

“Those who give thanks to their parents by nurturing and offering with wealth, material and money are never enough to repay their parents. But the Bhikkhu, who, for parents who have no faith in the Three Jewels, encourage the belief of the Three Jewels, and for the evil parents to encourage them into the righteous world, and for the parents to participate, it is encouraged. almsgiving, for evil-looking parents, encourage the right understanding; so far, the monks, are doing enough and give enough thanks to Mother and Father. ”

Thus, Buddhism introduced filial piety as a good deed to help practitioners practice the mind and go to liberation. From here, filial piety should be made on the basis of gender, samadhi and wisdom, meaning that it should be done on the basis of awareness of "greed, anger and ignorance are the root of the misery of suffering, and no greed, no anger, not si (right view) is the root of peace, liberation. "In short, the filial piety of specific Buddhist children includes:

a. In terms of material life, how do we serve and care for Mother Father so that Mother Father can live in comfort and affection in the present.

b. Regarding the spiritual life, the mind, the encouragement reminds and supports the conditions for parents so that parents can learn, understand and practice, liberation leading to happiness and happiness in the present and in the future.

It is this second duty that highlights the filial piety of the Buddha.

* In terms of awareness:

A third difference is the difference between the concept and perception of filial piety between Buddhism and human life.

The thoughtful thinking of ordinary people stipulates the category of differences between tastes, loyalty, love, meaning ... from which to teach in conflict conflicts that cause misery tragedies for people , when you have to put yourself in front of a painful choice between hospitality and love, between middle and filial, between love and middle. But the choice must be sacrificed. But sacrificing the love, the middle or the fondness, all bring suffering and suffering.

Buddhism does not think like that. Buddhism conceives the mind of filial piety, of love, of middle, of meaning ... are all kusala cittas, each having the same kusala citta. Living is just a process of expressing kindness at the request of each moment, in a rhythm of use that brings happiness, peace and righteousness to ourselves and to people.

As Nguyen Du shared with this view when he wrote:

"Like you are a virgin

No matter how much he lent, he borrowed it. ”

Once you are able to show your fullness, you must be full of love, full and complete. And vice versa, when the middle of it all, it is also very hospitable and faithful. The value here is the value of the mind, the value of the mind works well.

* About the broad meaning of the filial piety in Buddhism:

One final difference is that Buddhists believe in the theory of karma and believe in the Buddha's words that: in the long life of samsara, humanity and sentient beings used to be relatives, brothers and parents. of each other, so filial piety towards Parents of many past lives becomes good behavior for everyone around them. Hieu here (for Parents of many past lives) has the meaning of middle, meaning and love. In other words, the Buddhists' Hieu here is fond of everyone when behavior becomes equal to everyone, all sentient beings, the filial piety becomes the wish of a Bodhisattva. Here, true Buddhists do not find a conflict between the duties of self, family and society. This is true happiness.

* Blessing the notice of the filial son:

In addition to the filial preaching that is the fundamental practice of Buddhists, The Sun also teaches clearly the blessings of filial piety as an indirect encouragement:

"Worshiping Mother and Father to correct the law,

Trade is honest,

The homeowner is not free,

Being born Tu Quang Thien. "

"Those who follow the law often

Nurture and Father's Mother

It is this virtue

For Mother and Father,

Thanks to that saint

Praise in this life

After the birth is born

Enjoy peace and peace. "

"Serve Mother and Father

It's the ultimate luck. ”

Through the above-mentioned sections, Buddhists were able to have a basic awareness of filial piety and were able to imagine what they themselves had to do to repay the Mother's gratitude in the right way, Parents show money and Parents of many past lives.

Forms of offering ceremonies, Kinh Vu Lan bridge, listening to preaching about filial piety ... only aim to remind Buddhists to nurture their fondness and return to real life to show their respectful duties for family and society. The tradition of the Vietnamese Buddhist Church often reminds Buddhists to respond to four great gifts:

- An Tam Bao has given me a dear life

- Thank you for giving birth to our parents

- National, the country has provided the facilities of intellectual, security and social life.

- And the Master's Master, the equal body ... has been a good support for me.

Practicing the duty to repay the gift of gratitude is the most practical meaning of Buddhists in celebrating Vu Lan's feast. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.29/6/2019.