{"id":7166,"date":"2021-09-03T06:17:49","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T23:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/?p=7166"},"modified":"2021-09-05T13:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T06:22:52","slug":"expressing-opening-statements-at-phap-nhan-temple-pl-2565-dl-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phapnhan.org\/en\/expressing-opening-statements-at-phap-nhan-temple-pl-2565-dl-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressing Opening Statements at Ph\u00e1p Nh\u00e3n Temple Buddhist Calendar 2565\/ Normal Calendar 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ph\u00e1p Nh\u00e3n Temple<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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EXPRESSING OPENING STATEMENTS AT PH\u00c1P NH\u00c3N TEMPLE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Buddhist Calendar 2565\/ Normal Calendar 2021<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Namo The Original Master Sakyamuni Buddhaya<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear respected Venerable Monks and Nuns<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dear Dharma Sisters and Brothers present at Ph\u00e1p Nh\u00e3n Temple on this year\u2019s Vu Lan Filial Piety Day<\/em><\/span>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cTowards mother and father giving birth to us<\/span><\/p>\n

Take care, nurture peace and happiness<\/span><\/p>\n

Spirit and material are full<\/span><\/p>\n

Nice accommodation with peaceful months and days<\/span><\/p>\n

Parents and children reuniting<\/span><\/p>\n

have stable and strong confidence in the Dharma<\/span><\/p>\n

With the first filial piety<\/span><\/p>\n

Children and grandchildren are happy all over the place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

We know that according to the developed Buddhist culture, Vu Lan festival means the happy day of the Buddha, the happy day of the Sangha, the day of recognition, expression, and repentance of self-mistakes, the day of offering merit, Kathina<\/em> robes to the Sangha, and the day of cultivating the merit field. Additionally, the day after attending Vassa Vassa<\/em> Retreat – summer or raining Retreat, the Sangha has one more age in the Dharma, and the Vu Lan festival also is the filial piety Day for parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, Buddhism is the filial path that teaches people to have filial piety and respect for their parents. The Buddha always teaches us to be filial to our parents and grandparents first. According to the Eastern culture, especially the culture of Buddhism, serving, respecting, caring, and nurturing parents are very important duties of children to parents when their parents get old.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those who know how to respect and take care of their parents have a lot of happiness and virtue, are praised and extolled because in the family, they are the ones who inherit moral education directly from their parents and their parents are teachers who teach understanding and love for their children. These substances have the potential to nurture and help their children easily succeed in life. Therefore, with thoughts and actions of peacefulness, the merit of serving and being filial to one\u2019s parents and the merit of making offerings to the Buddha and protecting the Three Jewels are the same. Those who do not know how to respect and take care of their parents are unfilial, criticized, and despised by the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Buddhist viewpoint, in A\u1e45guttara Nik\u0101ya<\/em>, the Buddha teaches us that the parents are two Brahmas. If we respect and take good care of our parents, we will be happy and everyone will praise and respect us. Filial piety and caring for parents always has two aspects: material and spiritual. In terms of material, when the parents get old, in order to help them live peacefully and happily in their daily lives, children are aware to live by right occupation, effort, and property created by themselves. In terms of spirituality, children themselves must know how to take refuge in the Three Jewels and practice the five virtuous trainings, and then, encourage and exhort their parents to take refuge in the Buddha’s light to live a life of good direction and benefit for themselves and for other people right in this life.<\/span><\/p>\n

With the just above-mentioned meanings, Vu Lan festival in this year, the year of the global pandemic, we focus on our homeland Vietnam in particular and countries around the world in general, please wholeheartedly contribute to praying for timely, valuable, and effective vaccines to treat the pandemic to be ended quickly. This year, Phap Nhan Temple has enough good fortune to hold Vu Lan\u2019s filial piety festival to help us know about the meaning of drinking water, remembering the source, being grateful, and repaying gratitude of the Buddha\u2019s children.<\/span><\/p>\n

So we would like to proclaim the reason for opening the Vu Lan \u2013 Parents\u2019 Day today.<\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you so much for your attention and listening. We would like to wish you all peace, joy, and happiness in the Dharma.<\/span><\/p>\n

Namo Maha Moggall\u0101na Bodhisattva<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ph\u00e1t Bi\u1ec3u Khai M\u1ea1c Vu Lan PL. 2565, DL. 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n