Since we have a life which is given free to us, and the time given free to us, logically speaking, every one of us should be able to enjoy a good life.
However, most of us are not able to have a good life because of our own defilements. We have many complaints about our parents. Many people have blamed their parents for their failures. Some of us even point a finger at our parents for our sufferings. In this way, we can’t feel grateful towards our parents for the life they given us.
Have you ever wondered how much pain your mother had gone through when she was conceiving you in her womb for 9 months ? How much pain she had to bear during the time of delivering you? Have your mother grumbled to you about those pains she had gone through?
Have you contemplated and thought deeply about the way your mother have taken care of you when you were one day old, one month old, and one year old? How your mother have nursed you and taught you when you were an infant? She had cared for you, didn’t she? You wouldn’t have survived without her care for you with great loving kindness and compassion, would you?
We were hopeless when we were still an infant. Our parents nursed us, loved us, warmed us, fed us and cared for us with great tenderness when we were few months old. Have you felt grateful towards your parents? Without their loving kindness and compassion, will you survive till today?
Have you ever thought of repaying your parents’ effort of taking care of you? Without the sense of feeling grateful towards your parents, you may not try to repay their loving kindness and compassion give to you by them.
Do you think we should feel grateful towards our parents, and try to repay them for their efforts of taking care of us, in any way we can?
