Living a Virtuous Life: Honoring Parents : āļŦāļāđāļē 25/62
Lovely Love : āļŦāļāđāļē 25/62 Explore the importance of respecting and caring for parents while promoting self-sufficiency and merit in life.
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This text emphasizes the necessity of living a virtuous life by showing respect and care towards one's parents. It discusses the importance of not holding grudges against them, illustrating how parents should also care for their own parents. The author highlights the debt owed to parents for life and education, and stresses that children should strive for self-sufficiency without expecting anything in return. Wealth from parents should not be seen as entitlement but rather as a gift, and if children lack merit, any wealth inherited can be quickly depleted. The text explains that both our physical and spiritual life is influenced by our parents, urging that our bodies should be treated as gifts deserving respect, specifically by avoiding negative influences like drugs and alcohol. Ultimately, performing good deeds amplifies the benefits shared with parents, solidifying a bond of gratitude.
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- Virtuous Living
- Respect for Parents
- Self-Sufficiency
- Importance of Merit
- Gratitude and Care
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living a virtuous life, showing good respect to them,
speaking to them in a nice and warm fashion, and
taking good care of them. Children should never hold
a grudge against their parents, regardless of their
shortcomings.
Parents can set a good example for their children by
caring for their own ageing parents. When we take
care of our parents, we should do so without.
expectation of anything in return. We already owe our
parents a tremendous debt for giving us life in a
human form, for bringing us up and for giving us an
education among other things.
We should try to be self-sufficient and not count on
our parents for support, even if they are wealthy.
Their wealth belongs to them. They can choose to
spend their money in whichever way they like. We
should not regard their wealth as our own simply
because we are related. We should earn a living for
ourselves and create our own wealth. Any
inheritances given to us by our parents should be
considered as an extra gift.
If parents give their children their wealth, but the
children have not built a good base of merit to sustain
it, it will eventually be depleted and soon disappear no
matter how much wealth is given to them. One who is
void of merit is also void of wealth. This is set by The
Law of Kamma.
Human life is made up of physical and spiritual
components, such as the body and mind. Our fathers
and mothers contributed the elements for our
physical form, while our mind is our own. In a way,
we can say that our bodies belong to our parents since
they are our progenitors.
Our body is a gift from our parents and we should
honour our parents by treating this 'gift' with respect
and care. We should use our bodies for only worthy
deeds and avoid unworthy ones. We should not allow
our bodies to be contaminated by intoxicants such as
alcohol, cigarettes or drugs. If we use our bodies to
perform more good deeds and increase our purity,
our parents will share the benefits of our good deeds
too. This is another way to show our gratitude to
them.
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