"Monks, I will teach you the level of a person of no integrity and the level of a person of integrity. Listen & pay close attention. I will speak."
"As you say, lord," the monks responded.
The Blessed One said, "Now what is the level of a person of no integrity? A person of no integrity is ungrateful & unthankful. This ingratitude, this lack of thankfulness, is advocated by rude people. It is entirely on the level of people of no integrity. A person of integrity is grateful & thankful. This gratitude, this thankfulness, is advocated by civil people. It is entirely on the level of people of integrity."
{II,iv,2} "I tell you, monks, there are two people who are not easy to repay. Which two? Your mother & father. Even if you were to carry your mother on one shoulder & your father on the other shoulder for 100 years, and were to look after them by anointing, massaging, bathing, & rubbing their limbs, and they were to defecate & urinate right there [on your shoulders], you would not in that way pay or repay your parents. If you were to establish your mother & father in absolute sovereignty over this great earth, abounding in the seven treasures, you would not in that way pay or repay your parents. Why is that? Mother & father do much for their children. They care for them, they nourish them, they introduce them to this world. But anyone who rouses his unbelieving mother & father, settles & establishes them in conviction; rouses his unvirtuous mother & father, settles & establishes them in virtue; rouses his stingy mother & father, settles & establishes them in generosity; rouses his foolish mother & father, settles & establishes them in discernment: To this extent one pays & repays one's mother & father."
this is an excellent thread....
�無密利多多婆曳娑訶 (in Chinese)
(Na mwo mi li dwo
dwo pe ye swo he)
parents love is unlimited and no way one could repay in this life...
also:
The Filial Piety Sutra
The Buddha Speaks about the Deep Kindness
of Parents and the Difficulty in Repaying it.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/filial-sutra.htm
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so those who are unfilial to their parents, reborn in hell?
amitofo.
what about parents who have no affinity with kids , send them away, don't do duty to bring them up? Upon hearing news of the mischievous kids, push blame to kids for being naughty?
i know killing them sure will reborn in Avici hell..
Anantarika-karma or ànantarika-kamma in Buddhism is a heinous crime, which through karmic process brings immediate disaster. Traditionally there are five such crimes:[1][2][3][4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anantarika-karma
People reborn in Avīci generally have committed one or more of the Five Grave Offenses:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avici
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Originally posted by gorgorlokaychyong:amitofo.
what about parents who have no affinity with kids , send them away, don't do duty to bring them up? Upon hearing news of the mischievous kids, push blame to kids for being naughty?
It's true that not all parents do their duty and are good to their kids. At the very least do not be disrespectful to such a class of parents or treat them badly in return. If we can influence them to follow the Buddha's teachings, all the better.
No matter what though... they did give birth to us in the human realm. In Buddhist understanding, a human rebirth is conducive to spiritual cultivation and we are lucky to be born as such. For any two people to have been our physical parents, it means that they do have some sort of karmic affinity with us.
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I really hope that I can eventually get my parents to at least sotapanna. Of course, that should entail myself actually having some realization...
jui, that is a worthy goal everyone should have! how can i wish for anything less.
if you can make your parents buddhist if they are not, this is good enough already.
however if they are buddhists, what you can do is buy them dhamma books to read.
Today I told my mom to start practising meditation daily. I hope she will gain enlightenment this life.
Originally posted by Fcukpap:parents love is unlimited and no way one could repay in this life...
absolutely agree. no matter how, it is never enough to repay them.