丙二、念父母恩
C2: Mindfulness Of Our Fathers And Mothers’ Kindness
念父母恩
[2] Mindfulness Of Our Fathers And Mothers’ Kindness
云何念父母恩？哀哀父母，生我劬劳。
Why be mindful of our fathers and mothers’ kindness? How pitiful, how pitiful, were my father and mother, who gave birth to and nurtured me with hardship and exhaustion.
十月三年，怀胎乳哺，推干去湿，咽苦吐甘，才得成人，指望绍继门风，供承祭祀。
For ten months and three years, carrying in the womb and suckling to feed, pushing me to the dry while going to the wet, swallowing the bitter while spitting out the sweet, only then am I able to become a grown-up, as they counted on me to carry on succeeding the family’s tradition, of making offerings for supporting our ancestors.
今我等既已出家，滥称释子，忝号沙门，甘旨不供，祭扫不给，生不能养其口体，死不能导其神灵，于世间则为大损，于出世又无实益，两途既失，重罪宁逃？
Now that myself and others have already left the household life, unjustifiably called Śākyamuni Buddha’s disciples, disgracefully named as Śramaṇas, delicacies are not offered, making of offerings and sweeping of graves are not provided. When alive, not able to support their mouths and bodies, and when dead, not able to guide their consciousnesses. For the worldly, then with great losses, and for the world-transcending, also without true benefits, with these two paths already lost, of heavy transgressions, how can they be escaped from?
如是思惟，唯有百劫千生常行佛道，十方三世普度众生，则不唯一生父母，生生父母俱蒙拔济；不唯一人父母，人人父母尽可超升。
Thus contemplating, only having a hundred kalpas’ thousand lives, constantly practising the Buddha’s path, in the ten directions and three periods, universally delivering sentient beings, then not only one life’s father and mother, fathers and mothers from life to life, can together receive salvation. Not only one person’s father and mother, everyone’s fathers and mothers, can all transcend and ascend [to Pure Land].
是为发菩提心第二因缘也。
This is for giving rise to the Bodhi Mind, the second cause and condition.
净土宗十一祖省庵大师
Pure Land Tradition’s 11th Patriarch Great Master Xǐng’ān
《劝发菩提心文》
Essay On Exhortation To Give Rise To The Bodhi Mind
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Essay On Exhortation To Give Rise To The Bodhi Mind
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