Filial piety should be done early
Author | Ma Yuanjin
The weather was gloomy and the mood was gloomy. I want to listen to a song and relieve the depression in my heart. Open the mobile phone, but what catches your eye is a video sent by your old classmate Lu Shidun, "The eighty-five-year-old uncle still has a mother's name, and there is a mother's pain."
After watching the video, the envy rose suddenly. The eighty-five-year-old uncle's mother's voice is so kind, so pure, and the mother's response is so kind, so sweet, and I don't know how many lifetimes of cultivation can be exchanged for such blessings!
After watching the video, I was still excited and wanted to enjoy another song. Click on the music channel and hear the song "Filial Piety Should Be Early" sung by Song Jiangtao.
The song sings: I often remember the words I told when I went out, and I went home when I was tired when I was out taking care of myself. Always thinking of living a good life, filial piety to my father and mother, unconsciously they are full of white hair. A lifetime of only thirty thousand days, soon arrived, the son wants to raise and relatives do not wait to regret is useful? Tolerate their nagging and be more patient, and don't leave yourself regrets after a hundred years. Who hadn't soaked our mother's feet, and what she washed us at that time was a little foot with mud. Who hadn't beaten our dad's back, and at that time, we were always lying on our backs. Don't wait until you take them to see the lanterns and realize that their eyes are dimmed. Don't wait until you go to dinner with them only to find that their teeth can't be chewed. Filial piety should be done early, let's wait for something....
After listening to the song, the mood became heavy again. The song reminds me of the past and my mother.
Poor mother, born in the old society, died in the early eighties, a life of hard work and simplicity, loyalty and kindness. For the sake of their children, they broke their hearts, suffered indescribable suffering and tiredness, and never lived a comfortable day of eating and wearing.
I remember that when my mother was seriously ill, she wanted to drink an egg soaked in boiling water, and in the era when she ate the last meal and the next meal, an egg was not easy to come by. For various reasons, the mother could not drink a soaked egg.
Mother was gone, leaving us forever with her mouth open. Later, I heard people say that when people leave, they open their mouths because of the gap. Hearing this, the remorse in my heart was full of regret, and the knife was as uncomfortable as the knife, and the uncontrollable tears flowed down again, leaving an incurable pain in my heart from then on.
Although in the midst of illness, the mother is still worried about her children. Once when I was alone next to my mother, she took my hand and said, "Don't go in the night when I leave, if it is night, you will be afraid." Hearing this, I burst into tears again, and I didn't dare to cry. Motherfucker! When is it, you are still thinking about the child, and you don't care that you are a critically ill person. Mother's wish came true, and she left at noon.
After her mother's death, the house where she lived was cold and cold during the day, and the sound of the call could not be heard at the door of the house, and there was no sound of her smile. At night, the door was closed, there was no light in the house, only the simple furniture was quietly placed in place. Another burst of sadness, another tear. Mother had gone to a distant place and wanted to see her again, unless it was in a dream!
Parents are here, life still has a place to come, parents go, life is only the way home.
In order to alleviate the pain in the heart, if you are less tormented, when you pay homage to your mother, in addition to other sacrifices, you will dip an egg and place it in front of the offering table for your mother to enjoy, so as to alleviate the pain in your heart in this way.
However, after the offerings were finished, the egg pattern in the bowl did not move at all, so I had to lay the soaked eggs down and lay them down until they were all laid on the ground. At this time, I felt that my mother and I were separated by yin and yang, my mother was underground, and I was on the ground. And how could this drop ever reach the Nine Springs!
A bowl of water in front of the bed when he was born is like a thousand piles of ash in front of a grave. I still regretted it, although regret was useless.
How deep the sea is, how big the sky is, the kindness of the parents is difficult to repay. Not to mention the hardships of conceiving in October, as soon as we are born, we become the heart of our mothers. I was afraid to melt in my mouth, and I was afraid to fall out in my hand. Urinate for us, change the wet bedding under ourselves, and use our bodies to warm our cold hands and feet. He taught us to walk, taught us to talk, and even made up the lie that my mother loved to eat fish heads. Spring, summer, autumn and winter remember our warmth and cold, look forward to our home at the door of the house, pray for us day and night in front of the bed, teach us our duty, and hope that we will start a family. Loving us more than loving yourself. Good days are coming, but the lovely mother is getting old every day!
There are many songs in praise of the mother, but thousands of songs cannot sing the mother's nurturing grace. There are many articles praising the mother, but thousands of articles cannot write about the mother's grace. How to repay the mother's nurturing grace!
The tree wants to be quiet and the wind is not stopping, and the son wants to raise and not to be kissed. We take advantage of the fact that our parents are alive and in good health, and we will perform filial piety in time, so as not to miss the opportunity.
There is an article that says well, when the old man is there, he should treat it well and leave no regrets. The heavens and the earth are leisurely, the passers-by are hurried, we come to the human world are just temporary sitting, too much entanglement, the harm can only be ourselves. There are no perfect parents under the world, we can't use perfect standards to demand parents, blindly compete with the faults of parents, otherwise, parents will be lost and uncomfortable, and it is a kind of torture for themselves. And the biggest upbringing is to forgive parents for their imperfections, understand their difficulties, and learn to be grateful. Because no one can resist the pace of time, whether it is parents or us. When people reach middle age, there are still parents who can be filial piety, which is the blessing of parents and the blessing of our children.
We must know that three thousand prosperous moments, many years later a bunch of yellow sand. Having a car in front of the door is not rich, and having a wife in the family is a blessing!
The sages of successive dynasties have set an example of filial piety for us, and they are all models of filial piety and have been recorded in the annals of history.
For example, in the twenty-four filial pieties, the filial piety touched the heavens, the Great Shun, the Han Wen Emperor who tasted soup medicine for his mother, the proud disciple Zeng Shen of Confucius who sniffed the pain, the Zhongyu of the Hundred Mile Negative Rice, the Min Loss of Lu Yi Shun's mother, the Tan Zi who was devoted to the deer milk, the old vegetable who played with the color of the entertainment, dong Yong who sold and buried his father, Ding Lan who carved the wood, Jiang Ge who provided for his mother, Lu Ji who was a widow, Guo Ju who buried his mother, Huang Xiang who buried his son and his mother, Cai Shun who picked up strange utensils, Jiang Shi who scavening in the spring, Wang Fu who wept in the tomb of Wen Lei, Cui Shannan who did not slack off, Wang Xiang who lay on the ice and begged for carp, Wu Meng, who was full of blood from mosquitoes, Yang Xiang, a Jin man who strangled the tiger to save his father, Jiangxia Mengzong, who cried bamboo shoots, Qianlou, who tasted dung and was worried about dung, Zhu Shouchang, a heavenly elder who abandoned officials and searched for his mother, and Huang Tingjian, a Fenning man who cleaned up relatives and drowned.
Their filial deeds have been passed down from generation to generation, and their reputation has been passed down through the ages!
We must learn from the sages and implement filial piety into our daily lives, be gentle and gentle with our parents, and care for us to the fullest, just as our parents treated us as if we were children.
The sages set an example for us to do filial piety, and the saints set the standards for us to do filial piety and put filial piety first. In the general narrative of the "Disciple Rules", it is said that the disciple rules, the sage precepts, the first filial piety, the second sincere faith, and the general love of the people, while the relatives and benevolence, with spare strength, learn the literature.
In the filial piety, it is said: Parents call, should not slow down, parents are destined, do not be lazy, parents must teach to listen, parents are responsible, must be obedient, winter is warm, summer is clear, morning is provincial, dusk is fixed, out must be told, the opposite must be faced, there is a constant, the karma has not changed, although things are small, do not act arbitrarily, do not do well, and the children are lost... With an example to learn from and a standard for implementation, we must act according to the precepts of the saints, do things according to filial piety, and be a person who has a clear conscience and honors his parents.
If we have parents, we have a home, and if we have parents, we have roots. The root is the grace, the ungrateful is the forgetting, and the rewarding of the favor is the retribution of the root. Having parents waiting for us to be filial piety is a great blessing for us.
We don't need to burn incense in the East Temple, the West Temple prays, parents are gods and Buddhas, parents are Taishan. Filial piety to parents is the best way to do good, and filial piety can move heaven and earth. Besides, the parents' today is our tomorrow.
When the crows still have a day to feed, and when the lambs have kneeling, let alone us who are good in nature. May everyone take advantage of the fact that your parents are alive and in good health, and also for your own hundred years without regrets, please be filial piety as soon as possible!
Ma Yuanjin, a native of Dadian Village, Yeyuan Subdistrict.