Iconic parents of Vimalakirti .

 

Parents I. Imagery through texts

Old at the time of the Buddha was in this world, in a village lived two lonely mother lived together. Both must work hard, but life is still miserable. The youth discontent depressed. When heard about the birth of the Buddha and his teachings, he determined to leave her, looking for the Buddha to hope he can help her have a better life. 

On top of Vulture Peak, Bhagavan was observed entering the suffering of sentient beings. His mother's sight are sick sickness, days and nights still look human. He saw the image of the young man, not afraid of high forest poisonous water, still determined to find a comfortable encounter for the Buddha. Bhagavan compassionate words, decisions of the mother and daughter was like my inclinations. He turned out to be recluses seeking alms. Sa subjects met the youth inquired about the whereabouts of the Buddha, the monk subjects answered: "You go back to the old way, if met anyone slippers left foot, he is Buddha".

The young man listened're recluses and back. Meet who you also pay attention to their feet. No one left-foot slippers. He saw his old home back surface. He knocked on the door hand and called to her. The mother heard the child, rushed slip on sandals that did not know he was wearing slippers left. She opened the door, the boy saw his mother left slippers, mother hugged disenchantment.

Through the image of the mother in the story above, plus the teaching filial to parents in doing the work understand the parents, whether they are Buddhists or ordained, are placed on top. Merit offering parents more as offerings to the Buddhas merit.

Beijing Patience said:

Ultimate goodness nothing more hospitable

Ultimate thing is nothing more evil disloyalty

Beijing Journal museum read: "Those who wish to make offerings to the Holy sages and Buddhist, be offering parents, all Buddhist sages and would be at home".

However, depending on each person's way of thinking, but the hospitality that was shown in many different ways, from such different results. There are those that help hospitality as well as the spiritual life of the parent material moving up. There are tastes that makes physical life and interested parents increasingly go down. So the Buddha taught us not only filial to their parents center, but also teach us how to honor the wholeness of Honor, parents are happily forever ...

Digha Nikaya tells us:

- Provide glass and obey their parents.

- Provided care when elderly parents.

- Keeping the family tradition reputation.

- Asset protection parental leave.

- Lo thoughtful funeral when his parents died.

Texts, if children are the parent application would satisfy that happily, because not all parents do not want their children taught obedience as well as protect and promote what they have to build from the wealth until the family's reputation. The funerary attentive, with the introduction and expression of fulfilling filial children towards their parents.

Increase Business Best Agama teaches:

- If parents do not have confidence, encouraging parents to give rise to trust in the Three Jewels.

- If parents avarice, encouraging parents to play Bell Center.

- If parents follow evil, to encouraging parents towards improving roads.

- If parents follow viewpoints, encouraging parents to return with the right view.

This is the spiritual help as well as parental material is fully eternal, suffering from falling into three lines. Trust and take refuge in the Three Jewels is the first step to help us with right understanding. Right view is the foundation for yourself and your words do not fall into unwholesome. If you do, the human body's form has been good, spiritual peace, material life in abundance. By the decision of life and body of a person not only in the hard, tricky or clever but rather in three industry body, speech and thought of the people there. Three good karma, we have the form and pleasant life. Three unwholesome is the form of our life and often nasty incidents.

II. Parents in the image of Vimalakirti

As a rule of Vimalakirti, two from Parent is he Vimalakirti explained as follows:

Tri degrees, mother bodhisattva

Means that the father

Tri level, is the wisdom of the Clerk of the Bodhisattva Behavior.

Means , are the methods by which skillful, a Bodhisattva may own benefit and the benefit of others.

The son says this is not an ordinary living beings that is a Bodhisattva. This prayer is for his Bodhisattva not?

This prayer for Bodhisattva, exactly that. But "Living in life to have a heart '. Because it brings peace and happiness to oneself and to others. Because, Buddha nature is something available for everyone, just for being ignorant, but does not show the force as Buddha. The root was of permanent, falls, continence. When I was three karma onion are now corresponds to that original, it brings joy to ourselves. Karma onion, root against him should immediately fall into the realm makes it disturbing. Thus, although one discovery can not Mind "On a Buddha. Under sentient beings, "the sermon which still have those who want to be happy in this world Saha.

Tumor Hospital is never crowded place once opened. You are countless poor. There is money that must to that long-term success is also poor. On the aisle, two baby are spending together a bike. Tiny baby brother can not drive, his hands busy holding two half tangerine, but is determined by the bike for him it is running. It encroached him it all by elbow, by deed and by screams cry. In general, three active unwholesome very strong. Half tangerine splashed down the road, there are many places trampled over and spit. It picked up and continued to fight. I'm looking around for 'identity' of the children. Young mother is laughing so carefree mix of interested to see two kids together pushing and towing.

There may be no such carefree smile, the mother will not be able to stand for what she is experiencing. Single family, poverty, children too small, cancer husband. Such ones have the results from the previous staff, can not criticize anything when we are not in their shoes. The thing to do is ponder, such children will become what people in the future? If these faults are not dismissed at an early age, continues to set a natural decorations are not only itself but also plagued those around you also encounter misfortune. Whether the mother will be so no longer laugh when we have the strength, weapons and with more valuable items?

All this stems from the lack of wisdom.

If that woman wisdom, may I have not seen her in such sad circumstances. If there are situations like that happen, can she still smiled, but she will not let you them scrambling bikes etc ...

I could not predict all the consequences of the current employment, can not turn their destiny good direction in the future because of lack of wisdom. We lack a mother produces for himself a proper perspective on life.

I can analyze very clearly such a situation could also result where the experience of the existing staff, but I would do anything to be able to help young mothers as well as prevent the above situation?

A nurse came over and stopped. She admonished, cajoling, she put the boy up behind his vehicle to transport it, but helpless. She just wanted to take the car to share it despite it beneficial to it or not. The mother as suddenly province, rose from his seat, stood up holding paddy girl, just to soothe crying, but no effect.

Have hearts but no means of self-interest, there is no way beneficial to the child can excuse in mind, then what's immoral still forming, the unfortunate result when sufficient grace will still run through. A mother always associated intellectual father with means, to children gentleness, kindness and happiness for life may existentialism.

Even with their parents in the flesh of his absence and media intelligence, the sense of hospitality one can not round. No brainer, the parents do evil, I will support follow. Brainer that no vehicle can not be advised not to stop the evil parents did. Human evil is the result of three data lines. As her story Thanh Recommended, his mother Moggallana that we already know.

Thanks to the wisdom and the means should Mahamaudgalyayana new reincarnated as her son Thanh Recommended. He also thanks the two things that Moggallana knew where his mother. Thanks to the intellectual, he listened to his teachings and invite Sangha offerings, hope, thanks to the power of the mind you alter maternal attachment. Thanks to the media from time to increase offerings that escaped her bar offer peta life, born in the heavens.

With the teachings in texts, without wisdom we do not know for how applications should allow the application to his parents, prayer becomes awkward to me.

As of the School says: "Provide glass and obey their parents." Increase Business Best Agama teaches: "If parents avarice, encouraging parents to play mind alms". His parents, if anything had also listen to me or have more or less generosity, the two prayer becomes relatively easy. The easy to taste, but if their parents do not like handouts, found himself brought the alms money grandparents upset, find enough ways to dissuaded the two prayers become pincer opposition in his heart. Obey their grandparents to grandparents fun as doing the training school, or to seek advice as alms economic grandparents teach A levels? Without his wisdom will choose to obey grandparents for health. His wisdom easy answers "How to make the agreement with his grandparents alms". Because it beneficial for grandparents. However, much work remains on the hurdles. Because "Today is serving out a more difficult shot atomic nuclei," Einstein said. Breaking down a mortgage is not the easiest job was with some elders and chief position. This place if we do not have the means to intellectual and grandparents upon, the heart to follow their tastes will not mean round.

If we have the wisdom and the means they would know what to do for those predestined unfavorable comfortable. Additionally, from upholding the Buddhas force, we will be the charm outside support, making things become good.

Wisdom and means always the important thing for us.

May all sentient beings whether in religious mantle, always see the importance of the intellectual father of two and the media. See, to always respect and offerings made two always travel with us in this world.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC VA THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN .PRAYED BUDDHIST MONASTERY AND VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,ADELAIDE AND SYDNEY.19/7/2015.