The Qian hexagram is yang, symbolizing the sky, and the Kun hexagram is yin, symbolizing the earth. The sky is cloudy and sunny in spring, summer, autumn and winter, wind, frost, rain and snow, but we should not deny its greatness and grandeur just because of its heat and severe cold; the earth is loose, hard, fertile, barren and uneven, but we should not deny its greatness and grandeur just because of its hardness and barrenness. Thickness and self-cultivation. The father is the Qian Gua and lives in the northwest, which is the sky of the home. The mother is the Kun Gua and lives in the southwest and is the earth of the home. Parents are the heaven and earth of their children and are worthy of their children's respect and filial piety.
Parents are the ones who give us life and raise us up. Parents are the root of life, and children are the branches of life. Honoring parents is a natural thing and is also a manifestation of following the laws of nature. As children, they are not only the continuation of their parents' lives and the inheritors of their incense, but also the inheritors of their parents' ideas and the promoters of family tradition. To honor your parents, you must first respect their personality, be grateful for their efforts, and maintain their dignity. Only with respect can you be respectful, only with gratitude can you be filial, and only with maintenance can you be obedient. Honoring parents is not only material, but also spiritual. Letting parents eat well and clothe themselves well is the foundation; making parents feel happy and proud is the high-level state of filial piety.
A family is like a tree. My parents who gave birth to me and raised me are the roots of the tree, and their children are the branches and leaves nourished by the roots. To contradict or lose your temper with your parents is to cut yourself off. If the roots are broken, can the tree still survive? Can the branches, leaves and fruits still flourish?
Parents are the most kind people in the world to us. Confronting or getting angry and making parents cry will greatly reduce the blessings of their children. People who honor their parents can improve their luck, while people who disobey their parents can reduce their luck!
Parents are the level of heaven for their children, and they are also the living Buddhas of their children. Filial piety is the first of all virtues. Honoring parents is the basic virtue of being a human being. It is also the primary content of Confucian moral education (filial piety, loyalty, trust, etiquette, justice, integrity and shame). Being a human being, worshiping gods, and respecting Buddha should all start with honoring your parents. Honoring parents is the greatest blessing in children's lives, and it is also the fastest way for children to increase their blessings! A person who is not filial to his parents is a person who does not know how to be a good person. Worshiping gods and worshiping Buddha will not only not receive the blessings of gods and Buddhas, but will also lead to punishments from gods and Buddhas. Disobedience to parents is tantamount to disobedience to heaven and earth, and gods and Buddhas will not forgive you. Therefore, grown-up children, especially those who are already adults, must not disobey their parents, do not order their parents like servants, do not scold their parents, blame their parents, and do not make their parents angry, otherwise it will greatly harm their parents. Lose your blessings and reduce your luck!
For a person who honors his parents, no matter how poor and down-trodden you are, no matter how many karma you have in your previous life, you will still be a respectable and filial son. When your good deeds have accumulated to a certain level, you will be rewarded after all your hardships. As a person who is not filial to his parents, no matter how big your official position is and how rich you are, no matter how rich your blessings were in your previous life, you are still a despicable little person. Man is an immoral person. When all your blessings are lost, you will be dismissed from office and your property will be confiscated, and you will have nowhere to buy regret medicine!
If your good fortune is not bad luck, but your life or career often does not go well, in addition to the possibility of karma, there is another possibility that it is caused by your bad attitude towards your parents; if you have bad luck again and again If accidental injuries occur again and again, it may be a reminder from God or a punishment for your bad behavior! If you want to change, then start by changing your attitude towards your parents, understand your parents more, be more considerate to your parents, and honor your parents more. This is the shortcut to save the situation and the best way to earn your character.
As a child, if you want to live a fundamentally happy life, you must start by honoring your parents.
When you were a child, you contradicted your parents and acted irritatingly, and your parents didn’t pay much attention to it, so the karmic consequences were relatively small. However, when you grow up, if you contradict your parents, act irritatingly and despise your parents, your parents will be sad and depressed. Tears will cause serious consequences.
Filial piety is the greatest kindness. A kind person will not contradict his parents or make his parents angry. Filial piety is also the highest character. A filial person is a trustworthy person. Filial piety is a test for everyone. The simplest and most effective way to achieve good moral character, filial piety to parents is the most basic conscience. A person who is filial to his parents has nothing wrong with his character. On the contrary, a person who is unfilial must have something wrong with his character and his "conscience" is also greatly damaged. While some people habitually enjoy the life given to them by their parents, they never consider the feelings of their parents when they speak or do things. What they eat, wear, and use is always based on themselves and based on the principle of meeting their own needs, never considering their parents. Ask your parents and ignore them.
If you are born with a human face, but have an animal heart and do animal things, you will be reborn as an animal. If a person was lazy in eating, sleeping after eating, and eating after sleeping, and was confused, ignorant, and had nothing to do during his lifetime, he would be more likely to be reincarnated as a pig. Excessive ignorance and stupidity will lead to rebirth in the animal realm.
My parents not only gave us life, but also gave us the most precious years and almost all their energy in their lives. Once upon a time, they gave us the best food to eat and the best clothes to wear. We wear clothes that are afraid of us being hot and afraid of being cold. They worry about us and go to school with great pains. They hope that we will live better than them and that our lives will take fewer detours. Parents are the most kind people in the world to us.
Now that we have grown up and made money, the first thing we should give back to is our parents, let them have good food, clothing, and housing, so that they can feel from the bottom of their hearts that they have something to rely on when they grow old. Don't let their old age be filled with fear or worry.
I had a video chat with a relative a few days ago and talked about his living situation. His joy was palpable. He said that each of the children invested 100,000 yuan to build a building for him in his hometown. He is now the only family in the village who lives in the building. The two of them live in a few hundred square meters and have all kinds of household appliances, which is better than in the city. The people here must not be bad! He also sent me a few videos taken last summer. The paintings and calligraphy upstairs were surrounded by clear windows, and the flowers were in full bloom and green waves were rippling downstairs. Looking at the smiling face in the video, he doesn't look like an old man who is over 60 years old.
Correspondingly, I also heard a tragic story: There was a boss who bought a building in the city and drove a car worth hundreds of thousands. He took his wife and children to the city. Here, only my father, who was over seventy years old, was left alone in a mud house in the countryside. Someone asked: Why don't you take the old man to the city? He replied: The elderly are used to living in rural areas and do not want to go to the city. The person who asked the question knew that he clearly did not want to take the old man to the city. The old man also raised dozens of sheep and more than a dozen chickens for him. He also expected the old man to eat green mutton and eggs. In this way, while this boss worth tens of millions was enjoying a luxurious life in the city, his father, who was in his seventies, lived with sheep and chickens and died in the sheepfold on a midwinter night one year.
This boss didn’t know how much energy his father had and how long he could live. When his neighbor called him and said that his father died in the sheep pen, he didn’t know what he thought!
If their children can be filial, their parents will be blessed! The greatest success of parents is the filial piety of their children, and the greatest merit of children is the happiness of their parents! On the contrary, the greatest sorrow for parents is the unfilial piety of their children, and the greatest evil deed of children is to abandon their biological parents!
The most important thing in life is to have a good mood and a good body. A good body is the capital of life, and a good mood is the splendor of life. Without a good body, life will suffer, and without a good mood, life will go crazy. As long as you have a good body and maintain a good mood, you are the greatest wealth, the biggest winner and the strongest force in life. A good mood can lead to a good body, a good mood is the foundation of a good body, and a good body is the result of a good mood. The most important thing to honor your parents is to put them in a good mood!
The filial piety that people often talk about nowadays often refers to being able to support your parents.
In fact, even dogs, horses and other animals can be raised by people. If there is no respect, what is the difference between supporting parents and raising dogs and horses? Honoring parents cannot be limited to material food and clothing. What is more important is that parents should be comforted spiritually!
I was chatting with a friend recently and I asked him about winning an award for his calligraphy work. He was in a great mood! With a face full of happiness, he told me the story of his family, how poor he was back then, how upbeat and sensible his son was. When he was in high school, he advised him to take time to practice more calligraphy and not to neglect his calligraphy. When he was in college, he used the money earned from his work-study program to buy him many copybooks and writing brushes, and contributed to many manuscripts for him. He said that if it weren't for his son, he would have given up this hobby, and he would never have achieved what he has today! He said that although the effort was done by himself, his son gave him infinite strength.
He was originally a calligraphy enthusiast. He was good at handwriting when he was in junior high school. He once won the third prize in the school's calligraphy competition in the school's hard-pen calligraphy competition. Later, he dropped out of school due to family reasons and put it aside. . After more than thirty years, he was able to revisit his old dream and achieve results mainly due to his son.
The son is sensible because of the hard work of his parents, and the parents are brilliant because of their son’s brilliance! How could parents not be proud of such a child? ! It seems that the significance of family education is not only how much culture your children can learn and what kind of diploma they get, but more importantly, how to teach your children how to behave! No matter how high-ranking the children are or how much money they have, if they don’t know how to love and honor their parents, their parents’ education will be a failure, and their decades of hard work will be meaningless, and their lives will also be a failure!
This friend talked about the child of one of his relatives, and his regret was palpable - "I don't know what else a child who respects his parents can do?" After playing games on his mobile phone all night, his father reminded him Pay attention to his eyes, and he said to his father: "Don't mind my business!" He didn't sleep all night and didn't get up all day long. His mother cooked a meal and tried to wake him up three times. When she called again, "You are so annoying. Don’t eat!”
What will such a son mean to his parents? What is the use of parents raising such a son? I didn't ask about the child's identity or education, but based on his words "Don't mind my business!" I concluded that this child is a person with a lack of education and moral problems! Father and son are flesh and blood, and blood is thicker than water. Children's affairs have always been their parents' affairs, and their parents' affairs are also their children's affairs. An eighty-year-old man has to worry about one day's work!
As a child, the most difficult thing is to be kind to your parents. If you have something to do, your children will do it for your parents. If you have wine and food, let your parents eat, is it considered filial piety? The conclusion is obvious.
To keep parents in a good mood, everything must be based on respecting parents, taking their parents' wishes as the starting point, and not being self-righteous or reasoning. The best attitude we can have towards our parents is to always keep them in mind, just like their parents kept them in mind when they were young.
What determines a person's height in life is never appearance, knowledge, or wealth, but his kindness rooted in his heart and his cultivation of knowing how to empathize with others. Only when you have children do you know how to be filial to your parents, consider things from their parents' point of view, empathize with your parents, and understand their difficulties! In the cycle of heaven, you also have your time to grow old. Your parents' present is your future, and your parents' today is your tomorrow.
Some people have good luck and have a safe and smooth life; some people have bad luck and have many twists and turns in life. Those who have good luck and good fortune, except for the blessings accumulated in previous lives, are generally filial people; those who have bad luck and bad luck, except for the karma and results created in previous lives, are most likely to be rebellious people.
The Chinese nation is a great country with a splendid culture of more than 5,000 years. It has been a country of civilization and etiquette since ancient times. "Heaven moves vigorously, a gentleman strives for continuous self-improvement, and the terrain is prosperous. A gentleman carries great virtues with him." Filial piety comes first among all good deeds. The "Eight Virtues" give filial piety the most basic principle of life.
In recent decades, due to the invasion of foreign cultures, the decadent ideology of capitalism has spread in China. Money worship, egotism, and hedonism have permeated all aspects of social life, especially the modern generation after the 1980s. Not knowing what filial piety, loyalty, propriety, justice and shame are, it greatly affects their physical and mental health and normal growth. There is culture but not civilization; there is education but uneducated things can be seen everywhere. This is such a heartbreaking thing!
The reason why Chinese civilization continues to thrive is because of the inheritance of Chinese culture! As a Chinese, we must be proud of the Chinese civilization, actively inherit and promote Chinese culture, contribute our own light and heat to the realization of the "Chinese Dream" of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!