Our Responsibility to Our Parents

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In this videoconference talk from 27 Aug, 2021, Ajahn Anan talks about the hungry ghost festival in the Chinese tradition, doing good and sharing the merits with our parents, relatives and ancestors. "And there is a question that when our parents have passed away already, what goodness should we do? First, is that we ourselves must build goodness, because our parents are our body. We have taken a part of them already for this body, this flesh and blood. Now we can look after ourselves, we can maintain our bodies. But in the beginning, this physical body came from them. All our cells, we got from our father and mother. We have them now already in this body. So we take this body to build goodness. We build dana--generosity, we build sila--morality, we build bhavana--developing our minds. The extent to which we take this body to make goodness, will be the extent that our mind will grow in inner joy."

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