Master Huijing’s Short Dharma Teachings about Education for Living
生活教育
It is the heartfelt wish of all parents to earn enough money to properly raise their children and be able to leave them some assets, hoping their lives can be comfortable and without any worries. However, this objective is totally wrong.
If their children have virtuous blessings, they will have no worries about their futures. If they don’t, they will be hurt when they receive their parents’ estate.
Leaving virtuous blessings to your children is important. However, parents should make charitable donations if they have one million, 2 million, or several million. This is the correct way to leave virtuous blessings to one’s children.
For a family that is rich for three generations, it is most practical to pass intangible assets, rather than tangible assets to their children. As it pertains to virtuous blessings, virtue is the cause and blessings are the effect. Those who have virtues must be rewarded with blessings. Virtues are realized by how kind and considerate you are to others, being self-sacrificing, helping others to succeed, and not harming others. These are truly solid and substantial virtues.
賺錢來養兒女,讓兒女有一些恆產,將來生活比較無憂無慮,這是天下父母心,但方向完全錯誤。孩子有福德,日後衣食無憂,孩子沒有福德,留再多的錢給他都害了他,所以留福德給子孫是最重要的。即使現在有一百萬、兩百萬、幾百萬,更重要的是拿去佈施,這樣就是留德給他了。
能富過三代的家族,往往不是留有形的恆產給兒孫,而是留無形的功德,這才是最實際的。所謂「道德」、「福德」,福德是果,道德就是因,有了「道」往往就有「福」這個果,而道德的實際展現就是對人恩慈體貼,犧牲自己,成全別人,不為非作歹......等等,這個才是最實在的。
Namo Amituofo!
