Vietnamese people love their mothers and fathers.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

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I. Through Ca Dao Proverbs

Vu Lan season for Vietnamese people, especially Buddhists, is a season of filial piety, a season in which children remember their parents' births and want to do something good to repay them. parental upbringing.

To be grateful to parents and to report filial piety are feelings of thoughts and deeds imprinted in the hearts of Vietnamese people, and have been expressed flexibly and constantly, through the verses and proverbs that they I have found, flooded in the garden countryside.

Everywhere, Father Diep is exalted like a high mountain, his mother is like the sea:

"Father Diep is like Thai Son mountain,
Mother's meaning is like flowing water.
A devotion to his mother, to respect his father, to
round the word Hieu, is religion".

there are:

"The father and mother mean a noble mother, the
hardship does not take care of the whole life for me.
So the son must grieve, Give back
the heavy meaning as heaven.
Thank you for nine words, Cu Lao,
Sanh Thanh tells how many young people to fit".

or is:

"Where to practice as a monk, to
worship your mother is the true one".

"With a devotion to my mother, to respect my father, to
round out Hieu is my son".

"The highness of the father and mother,
Cuu carries eggs in his innocent days.
Raising a child so hard, growing up,
he must know how to worship his parents".

"Old mother in a thatched tent,
early visiting in the evening to have her womb".

The love for Vietnamese parents is often associated with natural phenomena, so we do not find that many of the verses used the moon and sun to express their love for their parents:

"Late at night, the moon falls down the bridge,
Thank you for your parents, pain in the gut".

or is:

"The East Sea is still full of times,
Parents will not overflow forever".

Also out of love for his parents, the son never forgets to pray to the Buddha God for his parents to always live near him:

"At night to pray to the Buddha,
pray for parents to live forever with their children".

"Looking up to the sky and seeing a pair of cues kicking, looking
out at sea, seeing the pair of fish racing.
Going back to set up a shrine to worship the King,
Establish a site to worship his mother, and a temple to worship his father".

Parents have cared for their children every piece of rice, when their children were old, they also had to visit in the morning and find strange things to take care of their parents:

"I want to be close to my mother near my father,
When I go to the paddy, when I go to the mandarin".

"Whoever returns, I send the areca room, the room in
front of Mother's glass, the room behind the Master's glass.
Whoever comes back, I send my shoes
.

We sometimes see a girl refusing to marry, because she does not want to be separated from her parents:

"Thank you forever, as big as broken!
Public nurturing, big river!
I vow to stay like no husband,
Lo takes care of my parents wholeheartedly as children".

The woman who married far away was also blamed:

"Banyan birds perched on a banyan branch, the
husband does not get married, to get married far away.
Tomorrow father is weak, old mother. A
bowl of rice with chopsticks, carefully who offers tea?"

But I am filial to my parents, when my descendants will be filial to me. This is the usual law of response, but not so that diminishes the love of Vietnamese motherly respect for his father:

"If I am filial to my father and mother, I
guess you will be filial to me differently.
If you eat and live meaningless.
Do not expect your children to do anything for a waste."

or is:

"Hieu was good-
natured, what rebellious children are. How different are you? It's not wrong to check it out
before the rain rains,
Droplets after the previous drop."

"In life, everyone has a time to be
a parent, to be grateful to be born.
The old people had to work hard to support us.
Other than that, I had devoted all my love to raising children".

But the son also knows that the parents love their children, not the same, the father has the love of the father, the mother has the love of the mother, so the son also knows to distinguish:

"If you teach, you will be smart,
if you teach, you will be wise".

"Orphaned father ate rice with fish,
orphaned mother, lined the leaves to lie".

In this verse, we have noticed a son's distinction in his feelings towards another father, towards another mother. If the father died, then a mother would take care of the child, and feed the child with food and fish. But unfortunately the mother lost her new child really miserable, had to lay leaves to lie. And so, it is no wonder that when a son is closer to his mother than his father, he loves his mother more than he loves his father. We read a lot of verses and poems praising the love of a mother and a child who miss her:

"If
you have a child , you will know how to grow up, and if you raise a child , you will know the merit from".

"Whoever thinks that the mother's peacock is like a immaturity, in
fact the mother's peacock is even bigger".

"Mother's heart is like a bowl of water full,
This Mai is growing, how is this grace".

"Thank you for the nine words, Cu Lao,
three years of love, so much love".

"I coughed my heart to pieces,
I felt like a bottle of boiling water in my mother's fever."

"Raising the child does not take care of the body, where the
mother lies wet, the place is dry for the roller".

"You look away, you are foolish, you look
back at your wisdom".

"I'm rich, I'm rich, are you difficult?"

"An old mother is like a banana,
like a sticky rice, like a sugar cane."

"Hold your baby for a while, I
have run out of milk, my baby mule".

"Raising children selling frequency algae,
Just hope they grow up to be close to life".

"When the sun
gets hot, I get hurt, but my mother can't stand still".

"Lifetime hard work and endless,
Caring for rice bowls and money for raising children".

Because of the overwhelming love for his mother, because he remembers the merit of nursing, giving birth, and nurturing, the son always thinks of his mother:

"In the afternoon, I stand at the back lane.
Looking back at my motherland, my mother has a nine-dimensional pain".

"Standing in the middle of the night, standing in the middle of the sky,
Holding a white paper waiting for his mother's words."

"Undergoing so many hardships and not so much,
I will still be grateful for my mother for ever".

To the mother's grace, the children are always looking for ways to repay their deep gratitude and do all they can to repay the mother:

"Old mother in a thatched hut,
early visit in the evening to have a baby".

"Crayfish peel off tail,
Grate rice to white and feed old mother".

"Hungry to eat the date,
To feed the mother, the old mother is weak."

"I am hungry to eat young guava fruit, fast to
feed my mother, to give my old meaning."

"Commitment to work as hired labor,
As long as the mother can manage what is close".

"When we entered the temple, we saw the Buddha wanted to practice.
Back home, we saw that his mother had not been diligent ."

"Raising children does not take care of the body.
The side is wet, the mother lies, the side is dry, the roller is dry.
Knowing what makes it difficult,
Up the rock, build a shrine to worship".

"This bowl of rice is full of wishes,
Mother, here I am with my heart,
This is my love heavy in earnestness,
Thanks to birth, not paid yet."

Those who fail to fulfill the duties of children towards their mothers are subject to reproach:

"Wherever you go, you leave your mother at home,
whoever fixes pillows, who offers tea?"

Because a son is fond of his mother's love for his child, the merits she has spent in raising the children, especially the anxious sacrifices of the mother pampering them, taking care of them, and suffering for them, If unfortunately the mother has passed away without children, how much time will the son suffer with pity.

Many poems speak the heart of a child who loses a mother and the following is the heartache of a young woman who loses her mother:

"I was a child in the past, my
mother passed away.
For the first time I understood,
Orphan".
"All around me, everyone cries,
Silence I am sad,
Let the tears flow,
It is less suffering ...".
"Small I do not believe,
My relatives will die
That day I was stunned
And doubted heaven and earth".
"From now on, I can not see
. Kissing on the forehead of my mother.
When my child has to be
beaten, I am heartbreaking."
"Hey, who is happy at home? Your
mother pats each other.
Find your mother is not available
When sad, I can hide".
Sunset over the tomb, the
temple bell is cold falling,
I see that I lost my mother,
A sky lost! ".

Although the son loves his father not as much as he loves his mother, but it is not so that the son forgets the father's merit, because the father's role is very special in the family:

"You have a father like a house with a roof, and a
fatherless child is like a tadpole that has cut your tail".

"Wise thanks to the warmth of the fathers,
Make sure to worship the ancestors to worship, the
Tao should not be indifferent,
Must bring weak glasses to worship from solemnly."

"As for my father, his heels are as red as a lipstick.
I will die tomorrow, and my heels are black."

The image of the father, though old and still working to raise his children, also leaves in the son's mind an infinite gratitude:

"My father is old,
but he also works as a laborer to support the whole family.
Early the day when the chicken crows,
he got up to go to work".

And also a touching image, when the mother is gone, the father plays the role of a rooster to take care of the child to drink milk:

"Tilt out the bottle and open the button box,
baby, give me a peace of mind".

However, the role of education in the family, the father places more emphasis, and education is often strict and thus has a good influence on the son, when taught by a strict father, is more effective than the other. many mother:

"Mother beat a hundred, not equal to father a thousand hours".

II. Through Stories

The father has played the right role of education to educate his children to become citizens to help the nation's people. 

Through the verses of knives, aphorisms, stories, we have seen how Vietnamese people's love for their parents is, the love for Vietnamese parents has been reunited in the national tradition of Vietnam. cast, formed, ingrained in the mind of the Vietnamese people. In addition, Vietnamese Buddhists are taught more about filial piety, which illuminates the obligation to be a parent, the obligation to be a child, so the word Hieu has more and more profound influence on Vietnamese Buddhists. action mindset of Vietnamese people.

"Hieu's mind is Buddha's mind,
Hanh Hieu is Buddha's virtue". END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.28/8/2020.