Sunday, April 5, 2009

Gratitude

Part 6:
When your parents are ill, taste the medicine first [ Refer to herbal medicine, herbs are boiled with water, a child should taste it first to make sure it is not too hot or too bitter ] before giving it to them.
Take care of them night and day; do not leave their bedside.
During the first three years of mourning after they passed away, remember them with gratitude and feel sad often for not being able to repay them for their kindness in raising you.
During this period you should arrange your home to reflect your grief and sorrow, avoid festivities and indulgence in food and alcoholic drinks.
Observe the proper etiquette in arranging their funerals, hold the memorial ceremony and commemorate their anniversaries with your utmost sincerity.
Serve your departed parents as if they were alive.
My view:
Take good care of parents when they are ill. To show your gratitude, proper funeral to be made after they passed away. We need to behave well even parents no longer around.
--Chapter 1 Student guide ended--

Saturday, April 4, 2009

Help parents

Part 5:
When your parents do wrong, urge them to change.
Do it with a kind facial expression and a warm gentle voice.
If they do not accept your advice, wait until they are in a happier mood before you dissuade them again, followed by crying [ crying may not suitable nowadays ]to make them understand why,
If they end up whipping you, do not hold a grudge against them.
My view:
Try our very best to correct their mistakes.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Give joy to parents

Dear readers, Let us study the student guide.
Chapter 1: At home, be dutiful to your parents.
Part 4:
If whatever pleases your parents is fair and reasonable, try your best to get it for them.
Should something displease your parents, if within reason, cautiously keep it away from them.
When your body is hurt, your parents will be worried.
If your virtues are compromised, your parents will feel ashamed.
When you have loving parents, it is not difficult to be a dutiful child.
But if you are still dutiful to parents who hate you, only then will it meet the standards of the saints and sages for being a dutiful child.
My view:
Do things to give joy to parents. Be a dutiful even parents scold us.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Be a good child

Dear readers, Let us study the student guide. Chapter 1: At home, be dutiful to your parents. Part 3:
Have a permanent place to stay and lead a routine life.
Persist in whatever you do and do not change your aspirations at will.
Although a matter may be considered trivial, but if it is wrong to do it or unfair to the other person, do not do it thinking it will bear little or no consequence.
If you do, you are not being a dutiful child because parents do not want to see their child doing things that are irrational or illegal.
Even though an object may be small, do not hoard it.
If you do, your parents will be heartbroken.
My view:
Be a good child, study hard and having good habits.