Why are monks wearing yellow roses on Vu Lan's holiday?VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

The monks have left the secular life to live the life of the monk. They borrow the four-element body born by their parents to "on the bridge of liberation, under the salvation of sentient beings". The salvation of enlightenment is the most wonderful way to claim the blessings of both current parents and parents in many other lives.

Whether young or old, boys or girls attending Vu Lan ceremony are respectful and full of emotions when receiving a formal rose on the chest. Photo: Internet

On the seventh day of the lunar calendar, at home, all over Vietnam, we respectfully enter the Vu Lan season, the filial season.

These days, you will not be surprised to witness emotional images: whether old or young, a boy or a girl attending Vu Lan is respectfully and emotionally filled with emotion when receiving a rose adorned on his chest. shirt.

 The Zen master was very strange to see that the Japanese respectfully planted a white flower on his chest. After learning and knowing the lofty significance of this, he chose the rose as a symbol of the Buddhist Yulan proclamation ceremony and wrote the publication "Rose of Clothes" in 1962.

The rose chosen is the symbol of love, nobility and fragrance. Remembering your birth and putting it on the chest of a noble flower is the most beautiful love, which is the word Hieu that a child sends to the child. With that in mind, many Vietnamese people, when Vu Lan, wear a pink flower, are a symbol of Mother and Father. who lost your mother please wear white roses.

Therefore, even in harmony with the day Vu Lan wins the festival, the monk also wants to borrow the color of yellow flowers to express the true spirit of the Vu Lan season, which is liberation. Photo: Internet

You can choose a flower to put on your chest or not on Vu Lan holiday, but thinking about this day as a human being, Europe is also a way for you to appreciate this beautiful life.

However, there is a question that many people wonder: why are the monks wearing a yellow rose and not a red or white rose?

The answer is that the monks have left the secular life to live the life of the monk. They borrow the four-element body born by their parents to "on the bridge of liberation, under the salvation of sentient beings". The end to enlightenment is the most wonderful way of claiming filial piety for both current parents and parents in many other lives.

Instead of wearing a red or white rose to show the parents of money, it is very true, suitable for heaven and earth, but the monk has wider, larger, higher parents. Those are all sentient beings, so wear a yellow rose to express this noble ideal.

 

Buddhists of Vien Giac Pagoda (Bien Hoa City) install a yellow rose for Venerable Thich Nhat Quang during the Vu Lan 2018 season at Tinh Hoi pagoda on August 21. Photo: Internet

According to Buddhism, the color yellow is the color of liberation such as the Supreme Blessing of Medicine, the color of the Earth. On earth, we can stomp, step, plow, spit or do anything ... the earth remains inert, for the earth is life, patience, everything, acceptance of everything. Because all sentient beings are considered parents, relatives, relatives and most importantly, future Buddhas.

Yellow is also the color of insight, representing letting go, detachment, not clinging and accomplishing liberation.

Therefore, even in harmony with the day Vu Lan wins the festival, the monk also wants to borrow the color of yellow flowers to express the true spirit of the Vu Lan season, which is liberation.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.27/8/2020.