What should I do to honor my parents on Vu Lan's holiday?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.
Sit for a long time with your mother and then hold your hand and say, "You know, I love you." If I feel awkward, unnatural when I have to say that, just say how are you today? Are you thirsty, will you bring me water ...
Vu Lan, also known as filial piety, is held from the 8th to the full moon day of the 7th lunar month, praying for parents who have lost their birth in bliss. Vu Lan is also an opportunity for the lucky ones who have a parent to practice living to love their parents even more. Photo: Internet
Vu Lan, also known as filial piety, is held from the 8th to the full moon day of the 7th lunar month, praying for parents who have lost their birth in bliss. Vu Lan is also an opportunity for the lucky ones who have a parent to practice living to love their parents even more.
Vu Lan is a Pali reading of Uilambana, which means to save the suffering.
Vu Lan ceremony is officially held on 14th, 15th of lunar year. Buddhists offer offerings, make offerings to increase, thanks to the unbelievable divine power of the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha, dedicate merit to their parents to live in bliss. Vu Lan took place on the occasion of self-reliance, because after three months of settling in, the monks passed the practice of precepts, longevity, and repentance before the masses, had full pure Dharma precepts, forming the power to save the father. our mother.
Vu Lan, every temple prepares roses to give. That day in the Buddhist temple, if you are lucky and your mother, you will be attached a rose to your shirt. If unfortunately, the mother is gone, you will be attached a white flower. The white flowers are placed on the chest of the shirt, it seems that both the giver and the receiver are not happy. Both of their expressions were very sad. Sad because I lost my mother, I am fortunate that I still have a mother. So when I come home from work I can ask "How are you?" Then I heard my mother reply "I'm fine". For me it is luck and happiness. The happiness in the present that I must cherish and cherish.
That said, we know the meaning of the presence of our father and mother in life. "I am very guilty orphaned" This crime, when losing my father, lost my mother, can only understand and understand. Orphaned, not only hungry for food, thirsty, but also hungry for affection.
Vu Lan, every temple prepares roses to give. That day in the Buddhist temple, if you are lucky and your mother, you will be attached a rose to your shirt. If unfortunately, the mother is gone, you will be attached a white flower. Illustration
Behind the photos of my younger brothers and sisters as a child, she often writes down memories with a timeline in weeks and months of her child's age. When I get old, every free time, or Tet holiday, I calculate the age of each child. Personally, my mother counts my age the most. Simply because I am not married makes my mother worry.
I am proud that my son is now an adult. But no matter how much I grow up, I am still a foolish child of my mother. I still need protection and dependence on my mother. It is a place I return to share my sadness.
Raising children, mothers not only calculated each day each day, but also had to endure many hardships. "The side is wet, the mother lies, the side is dry."
I remember when I was about 7 or 8 years old. At that time, the whole family had only a blanket when the economy was in trouble. Called a blanket because it is used to cover but actually it is very thin. Winter, the cold. Cold night, my mother gave up blankets to cover my brothers. Mom hugged the mother in her arms for warmth but her back was cold.
The same goes for rice. The whole family turned their pants around a big bowl of rice, Mom fed them one by one. Just like that until the bowl of rice is finished. At that time, all families were short of rice and had to run to eat every meal. Many meals lacked rice, mother had nothing in her stomach. Even though my mother is the one who needs to eat the most, she has to eat to help us work.
At the age of schooling, my brothers and sisters were led by their mother to school each morning. When I have free time I go out to play, I stand outside the gate and look at my children.
Life like that goes on with the years. My brother's childhood was innocent, because of the love of his mother. Orphaned at the age of 7 years old, but thanks to the love and care of my mother, I did not have to suffer the scene "lining leaves but lying down".
So is my mother's love for my brothers. As a child, what did I do to honor my mother while she was still alive?
In the book The Rose on the Shirt, teacher Nhat Hanh recommends practicing love with her mother. Advice is very simple, but perhaps due to simplicity, so few people do. That is, sit with your mother for a long time and then hold your hand and say "You know, I love you". Illustration
In the book The Rose on the Shirt, teacher Nhat Hanh recommends practicing love with her mother. Advice is very simple, but perhaps due to simplicity, so few people do. That is, sit with your mother for a long time and then hold your hand and say "You know, I love you".
If I feel awkward, unnatural when I have to say that, just say how are you today? Are you thirsty, will you bring me water? Just like that, my mother no longer scolds and sorrowed with me. Even though I didn't do something with my mother before.
Then sit quietly and look closely at your mother to feel happy that she is still alive with you. That is happiness in the present. Happy to be cared for by our mother. When I have done such a simple thing, I have done something to please my mother, to say more highly that is to honor my mother.
According to the Buddhist spirit, for parents to be happy, in addition to reporting filial piety as above. The Buddha also teaches us to practice the five precepts. Illustration
In life, being a child who is filial for the whole life, even moving the stars to fill the sea does not report all the mother's merit to her. Because of the mother love like water in the source. The water in the source is never exhausted, so we can be assured of our filial piety with what is available. No need to wait for a lot of money to buy the new items that mom likes to call filial piety. She wore my beautiful clothes to buy, but she didn't visit her in the afternoon and asked her, clearly she was not very happy.
So what we do is we always wish for our mother day and night. Think of our mother every moment like she thought of me when I was a kid. Only then can that love manifest into action, whether it is an act of paying back physically or mentally.
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