Filial piety is the duty of your children.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

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Having a vulture that was filial to his parents day by day to fetch prey to nurture his frail parents, once he stuck his foot on a hunter's trap. Asked "common people say that the vultures have very bright eyes, clearly seeing the corpse so far away, so why are you trapped in my trap?" The vulture replied, "Hey, hunter, there are two things that no one can see: One is an accident and the other is death, it comes to me, I don't know it, even though I have seen it. thousand miles. That's why I fell for you. Upon hearing that the hunter said that the vulture could speak and had wisdom, must be filial to his parents, and let go of the vulture. That vulture was the forerunner of Shakyamuni Buddha.

After becoming enlightened, he understood more and more the boundless merit of his parents. In order to repay that merit, he had to enter a lower body at the Taoist palace in order to lecture on how the mother Buddha attained the path of Tu da huang. As for the father, he also taught a thousand verses for seven days and nights until his father attained Arahantship, then he also promoted the god of literature, martial arts, and shield the father's coffin. to the crematorium. We also see enough of the Buddha's love for the two bodies - those who gave birth to a great personality.

In Brahmasutta, the Blessed One teaches parents who have immeasurable merit towards their children. If any son is filial, he tries to master the five continents and four seas for his parents to rule, enjoy the supreme peace of the world but has yet to repay the nourishing merit in a lifetime. Because he only takes care of the material part of his parents in the present life. Non-filial children must try to make their parents practice to liberate.

That is to make parents practice practice to understand what is karma and believe in the Three Jewels. Understand that to know giving alms to the world, removing greed, helping the poor to constantly create good conditions for tomorrow. Moreover, it is necessary to know generosity, morality and contemplation, to keep the body, speech and mind pure and pure. Help parents understand that life is impermanent, suffering and selfless. But when parents are gone, being a child must know how to do good deeds to dedicate them to their parents.

The Sonananda proverb in the Buddha's birthplace tells that "Parents give all their happiness to their children. When the mother knows that in her pregnancy, she does not know what the child's face, son or daughter, but in her heart worrying, always asking for the peace of the fetus, thus not satisfied, she also went to the fortune teller to tell whether the boy or girl was born well, and then checked whether the birth date was good or not. consider when pregnant to abstain from what, wish and pray for the birth and death.

According to the Theravada Buddhism tradition, there is no Vu Lan festival, but immersed in the festive atmosphere and at the same time to create conditions for Buddhists towards goodness, usually, on the full moon day of July, each temple has a nest. the ceremony to place the bowls and make offerings to the monks to dedicate blessings to the deceased parents. The above action is to remind Buddhists to remember their deceased parents and also to remind Buddhists to practice almsgiving.

Today life is hustle, busy, how to practice what the Buddha taught to deserve to be a filial and filial person. Every day we have to be busy with loads of work. In addition, each person outside of work must also have a lot of responsibility for everyone. Small self with such strength as us how to accomplish everything without having to be free from parents' nourishment.

In the morning we go out on the street and see on the street there are old people wrapped in plastic by the tree. I wonder why those people have to be so superficial? Did they never have a family or children? We should think that having a parent with a parent in the house is like having sage saints to support and make offerings to them is our boundless merit because our parents as well as the saints have borne for us. life, nurture us to take shape. Then, a voice that is poorly polite while we are inadvertently upset also hurts a parent's godly merit. There are still people around the city who chase their parents out of the house, scold their parents badly, today even there are parents who sit down to eat with the bride or the groom with tears in their eyes. Not only the warm and cold fan but also the cake, the same tea when people come to visit because they are afraid of people staying long, afraid to give this and that while my parents give me a fortune without regret. Such people will not enjoy family happiness, and cannot avoid the most terrible things in life. But being such a lowly person, how can you have great power in the world, how can you get the love of the masses. Someone who is filial with his parents really cannot compare with animals. They will never be able to evolve on the upper level, live in the higher realms, but may even be downgraded to inferior humanity to wash away the sins and bad karma they have caused. Such people will not enjoy family happiness, and cannot avoid the most terrible things in life. But being such a lowly person, how can you have great power in the world, how can you get the love of the masses. Someone who is filial with his parents really cannot compare with animals. They will never be able to evolve on the upper level, live in the higher realms, but may even be downgraded to inferior human beings to wash away their sins, the bad karma they have caused. Such people will not enjoy family happiness, and cannot avoid the most terrible things in life. But being such a lowly person, how can you have great power in the world, how can you get the love of the masses. Someone who is filial with his parents really cannot compare with animals. They will never be able to evolve on the upper level, live in the higher realms, but may even be downgraded to inferior humanity to wash away their sins, the negative karma they have caused.

So the duty of being a child must be grateful to our parents and to take care of repayment, that is the path of the saint. Now the sky and the earth turn the rainy season, the cold wind must love to worship our parents, take care of people to eat, sleep, take care of people when the wind changes so that the rain will not be as sad as the sound of someone crying. like yellow leaves falling quietly in late autumn. Not only that, we also have to know how to share our love of filial piety to the lonely or orphaned old people, that is the true religion and at the same time helps us have the opportunity to do good deeds to dedicate to our parents. me.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/8/2020.