Love me like water sediment.

Not by raising her children milk,

Mother by the father's heart.

It's true to what the teacher was revered for children.

Parents are a child's shape intact. Teacher who is favored to make up the network for the world body. An ethics two men that as high as heaven, wide as the ocean is difficult to repay. And Buddhists as well as those who have raised human body, was also leaning kindness that different marine sky. Since left my home in the monastic temple with empty hands, each one a character from food, clothes, medicines, books, the means of living, education, all are run by Buddhists all offerings . And today to ever after, everything I use every day are also donations from Buddhists. So this article merit mention benefactors, like to remind myself of the issues studied.

1. Employment of benefactors for us

It Hien He says: " The needle falls down equity investment to date facility use, pure organic non century. Second officer time, usually four-care, disease need head, body and base charges and try out self-ruling class, like sexual behavior falls ",  ie  things we use everyday items, not yours, are offered by others. From rice porridge two sessions, clothing four seasons, activities should be taken with these medications when illness, learning tools, vehicles, are offered by others as a means for us to practice, study .

Who labored very hard to till farming also mouth, do not sit still not pleasant to eat or what?Lowland rice bowl to eat, when we think of to get this rice grain, the farmer must be miserable all day, rain drenched with sunlight beams rice sowing, care? That's not to mention the loss at the season, their restlessness, not enough food, but we are not doing anything, sitting not received those strange delicacies, prepared rice soup, while cooking this dish very bad , other dishes are not tasty. So Palmo taught Try eating bar: " Rice as spiritual healing remedies, we must calculate the motto sick, but such temporary attachment using your mind."

It's eating problems, also on clothing, fabrics that we wear is not natural that, by day and night workers constantly work hard to weave out. Touched when there are benefactors to the cottage door torn leaves, have a lifetime of laboring people without shelter, house. Sometimes they themselves do not dare to spend, do not dare to eat sweet, not good for a child not to comfort me, so that for us, it did not mean narrow-minded. Especially during the retreat, there are Buddhist communities from Central and West distant, quit jobs, save money buying coffee each package, towel, toothbrush, soap ... sincerely lower School brought offerings. It is the noble heart!

2. benefactor wishes for the offerings

Have you ever thought why our benefactors Development Center offerings for me? Does duty?No, it is believed Jewels devotion, affection Increase, view silhouette Buddha Sangha instead passed on the teachings, for life and suffer less. They're the glass because we are wearing their uniform of Buddhist law, offering hope that we will be merit - "people are looking forward to offering precious blessing."

Are there times when we look back if you already have enough merit for their dedication, were somewhat less as they think? Children themselves when rethinking see shame, really unworthy, have taken the drudgery of many people offering to serve the comfort of their enjoyment, to bring the benefits of a prosperous people to do themselves. Tu tu lai rai, convent for the past days, the procedure for chanting up there so as to repay debts to Buddhism, learning is not nowhere where idleness, so that when someone asks us to confess this instant is proud Tathagata disciples. I have "Liked mail claiming abuse, Shaanxi Samana effect".

The ancients said: " A meal porridge, a meal, often thinking is not easy to spot; half silk thread, usually made people remember the material difficulties ",  although a sip of water, the latter also offering refunds, so to say:  " Three hydro-nan put his mind any targets ", ie three heart lasts, indigestible water, unavoidable evil retribution. Stock moral teaching:

Most friendly Greek pilot forth, like Meru paint.

Regardless of spiritual vertigo willow, feeling completely piss non-capillary.

Translate :

Compassion pilot a grain of rice, heavy as Mount Meru,

Eat and do not practice religion, the team paid feathers bring horns.

So we have to play strong bodhicitta, establish permanent vows, austerities new team eager to avoid fur bearing lifetimes to repay horns.

3. Applications of benefactors to think of grace found in the life Bodhicitta

3.1. Household

Living in the era of physical media, quarterfinals are comprehensive offerings, food, clothing, books, money, education ... are sweating tears of benefactors. Obtain it, they must be drudgery, so we have to know, "lessening the indulgence-sufficient" in the issue and spending received. If your life is too well-off and have abundant residue should bring it to your offerings to the needy, or give to the poor. If you do so, then we will reduce greed, their benefit and interests.

3.2. In practice

Material and moral are not proportional, increasing material whenever the declining morals. So we must always remember that: But enough good conditions to be ordained practice, but still is the " blessed now thick thin",  is now dominant. Home person like fertile ground, Buddhists, farmers sow and harvest throughout the year, the harvest sown then, over time, if not complete fertilizer, correctly, the trees that will suck the nutrients in the soil makes the soil becomes dry and do not use it anymore. Likewise, if we admit the offerings without worrying about practice, not smart growth and smart care center is in our land will be dry and septic standards. Thinking like that, we would not dare to lazy laxity that more diligent in practice.

In short, many countless Buddha dharma, usually expressed with 84,000 disciplines, from the offerings, built temples, statues, classical Indian song, until the Buddhist stupas of sand group, or chant a Buddhist male model question ... are all means by which we play bodhicitta. However, each of us choose a suitable object to use it as motivation moral progress on the way of liberation. Buddha taught anybody Bodhicitta, but because of ignorance covered, obscured, who are polluting the ceiling should not know, do not see. Buddhas are three generations by the director of this center. Shakyamuni Buddha sitting under the Bodhi tree, he vowed, "If  I decide not to direct not leave this place," and then release him Stratum  prayer: "Places  You Can not Get the hell Buddha, being the Bodhi take the evidence ",  the bodhisattva vow is:" When will all suffering beings of his new  Buddha. "  we are learning to know the Buddhist Bodhi development Center is to freeze wins in step peaceful liberation road. It also is a way for us to repay the favor thick for our benefactors. END=NAM MO AMITABHA BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH GIAC TAM.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN AMITABHA PURELAND=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.15/10/2016.