Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Education for Living
生活教育
Filial love is the foremost among all moral conducts. When we practice virtues, we must love and obey our parents first. Why? It is because all devas, spirits and ghosts respect the dutiful person most.
Ghosts will not hurt a dutiful person. When they see him, they will kneel down. Devas must protect a dutiful person. So, if we love and obey our parents, we won’t need to ask devas, spirits and ghosts to protect us, they will naturally do it. It is because, for each cause, there comes a respective effect.
「百善孝為先」,我們行善,要先孝順父母。為什麼?因為天地鬼神最敬重孝子,以鬼來講,鬼不敢害孝子,鬼看到孝子來,就會趕快跪下來;至於神,一定保護孝子。所以只要孝順父母,我們不必祈求天地鬼神,自自然然得到天地鬼神的保佑,因為如是因如是果。
Namo Amituofo!
