PEOPLE THE BUDDHA LOOK BACK ON THE FAMILY.

Saturday, 8 December 2012

We are going into the twenty-first century. Mechanism of material civilization is encroaching human life, lead us book by vortices, run by the needs, ambitions do not stop. We do not have the time to care for relatives such as parents, your spouse, and especially for children.
lack of interest in each other is the seed to a broken family. Happy family shaken create misery for man. School was not enough to cultivate morality to students when families no longer root for them to cling to, rely on. So the root of the human? That is blood ancestors and spiritual factors.

I. Paternity Ancestor

Tree with roots, water source.
Birds have nests, the cardboard. Tong here is where the output of the first to be made ​​in the family, said remote ancestors thousands of years ago, said near his her birth parents. During each Vietnamese family has an ancestral altar, on which the present-grandfather, grandmother, grandparents (his parents) and a bowl of incense. Every morning waking up or going to bed, we all lit the altar of fragrant incense. When plugged incense, look up pictures of grandparents (or parents), we see in Figure eyes seemed to look at me, exists in me, for I trust in life. II. Factor Family Love Love Love ancestors deeply rooted love for family. If the family, grandparents love their grandchildren. Loving parents, grandparents positive care, Early kindness. Something delicious also invite grandparents. Buy something strange also told the grandparents. He is sick, the children, grandchildren took turns caring commitment. The father and mother are not grumble though difficult parents. Image parental love, filial to him she would like a good example for young men to follow. A happy family where everyone loves each other by a selfless love, not the most loved person to discretion. We must always interested relatives such as parents, spouse and children. Children are fully raised and educated from a happy family will be on the path of academic achievement, moral and social will benefit future generations. III. Material elements: stops when enough money is a crucial factor in creating a happy family. It solves most of life, daily activities. Image "thatched hut and two golden hearts" only in poetry. In fact, after work, the to look sorry brood wife home, then we will feel restless. The father is responsible for care of the physical life, to the mother at home taking care of meals, the children. But life difficult today appealed to the mother outside the home to earn money. Material needs have overwhelmed sacred spiritual function of the mother in the family, making the children do not care, teaching technical education, ethics. Parents working only on making money, meeting the physical needs required for children such as paying school, clothes, books ... Idea to do so is sufficient duty, mercy for teacher education. Even parents do not dare to leave the meeting or trade for the annual parent meeting and heard reports on achievements, learning outcomes and morals of children. consequences that led many children to damaged site, available money for parents, truancy altogether ride, neglect learning. Then hung the familiar, to the fear of teachers to access all classes, sitting in a classroom listening to lectures like a duck hear thunder fundamental loss, do not understand the lesson should not be, itchy hands and feet was born to talk naughty. parents were invited to the school to review five times seven times, anger hit me brutally. We do not get an error but also angry parents, teachers, students staid, bad when you solicit wandering streets, causing unpredictable disastrous as we see in the newspaper published many children child delinquency, most of them fall into the family wealth or divorced parents, child neglect, not care to teach. So money but are necessities, need to build a happy family, but if we do not know properly stopped, it will destroy the foundation of the moral sense. As previously impoverished husband and wife love each other, until the money abundant, born husband gambling, alcohol, strange search center, starving families often absent father every meal. Suffering wife, jealous husband because of sub-fields, turning the family into hell, where the victim is a child ... IV. Health Factors Health gives us comfort, pleasant, optimistic, fun with everyone around us. Health is gold. Health is all. A matter how outstanding talent he loses his health, his failed ambition. Health, did the have? Do not labor too hard, not too late, eat a balanced diet and punctuality. Meal with good food and enough nutrients. None of the pictures beautiful and cozy family meals are full of grandparents, parents, children gather plastic tray of rice, hot soup. A good housewife always change to ones taste dishes, buy seasonal foods, both fresh and help family budgets consuming. If material gives us a healthy body, the mental factors also make us happy to see everyone in a comfortable family love and care for each other. Children docile, obedient, grandparents and parents. Apart from these two important factors, and other factors, such as books, movies, entertainment, health, sports for children, care for the elderly. Occasionally brought his family to live with nature as to Vung Tau, Long Hai beach, up a mountain spring. Harmony with nature, we will relax the mind, lift off the many worries after the days work. V. Factors Love: The Love of the necessities essential for human development. Baby do not love, baby do not grow up. We do not have love, we will not grow. Though we have how much old, standing in front of his mother's love, we are still just little kids. No matter how wise we go again, standing in front of his girlfriend, we just fool fool. Although we have iron, but confronted with starving orphans, helpless elderly sick, we must melt in mercy. If we do not have love, we are not. Our happiness spread to the vast love. We help bring more joy we multiply by that number. Necessities love makes my heart warm, breathing air, fresh hearts and our lives have meaning. Lack of love, it's like stones. That rocks also should love one another as musician Trinh Cong Son wrote: "Tomorrow stones also need each other." VI. Spiritual Keys If blood ancestor is the root of the family, religious faith is important roots in the spiritual life. Each one of us does not contain the two natures of good and evil from the moment of birth. If we are blessed, was born of goodly parents, parents with peace, love one another, alimentation school, good education, family temple, learning the teachings taught people to do avoid evil, to meet you good practice together knowledge, moral teacher, the ability to guide our practice meditation to achieve a state of peace and health. Selfishness gradually settled down to make way for altruistic virtues shine, our minds wander with a love of nature, love and all things human. Heart from the open sea as the gateway generate insight. I feel impermanence is happening to us every heartbeat, all things come and go in the blink of an eye. Therefore, we do not know fear, not to cling, not fought for their own interests, but also to share with everyone, creating joy for others, like myself and my family. interest factor spirituality is the path leads us into Truth-Compassion-American, is the anchor of the soul. Lack of religious belief, we as a boat floating between the sea, do not know where the shore. In times of suffering, if there is no trust to look forward to, not the way of the good leads us on, enlighten us distinguish fake feet, is easy to become desperate, looking for death to liberate human life; meet hatred, it is hard not to become crazy, cause know how unpredictable sin! Besides the spiritual factor, we have a more important factor is the ideal life. Everyone chose a dream, dream. But if the dream is only for myself, then dream trivial, selfish. A doctor with dreams to make a lot of money on the head of the patient, so vain he taught. But the dream out of school to help many poor patients, invented incurable treatment option, it is a true ideal, selfless. Nurture yourself an ideal toward others, ambition bring happiness to people is noble intentions, people are reaching out to the end, a raft brings us to the happy shores, find an communication liberation in this present glory. Each bird nest, the day came up flying across the sky, up to and invite each other to find the nest. Everyone has a home and family, at the reunion the hot plastic tray of rice cultivation. After the cleaning is completed, people gather together, parents read books, children and considered the television. Before bedtime, both are sat in front of the altar, about the bell, the breath, let go of all wandering thoughts after a tiring day, peace of mind in the present moment. Peaceful and happy place! END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUNS=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.9/12/2012.NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).