Writing for my children 2
TO LIVE WORTHY AS A HUMAN BEING In my situation, when I was a child, Daddy had not been happy, relax as you are now. After school, I had to do house chores, but Daddy had tried to study as good as my friends. Perhaps, from that will, I had followed my study better than average. And although my memory was not very good, I had collected my knowledge enough. Now reminding, I didn’t regret anything although in my life, daddy had not seen anything of my young spring life that was romantic, poetic, or melancholy. At that time, I was driven into a lamentable situation. I was very sad, I had to think, and I had to awake for whole nights sometimes. For those reasons, I had found a little truth. And today I would like to write you guys about that.
My dear children,
People were born all bringing into life their own characteristics, which they called “the human nature”, and following with their abilities that were called “the natural endowment”. And in Buddhism, those things are “the effects” which from “the causes” we have created from many previous lives. No matter what they have been, when growing up, those things will have always clung with you until death, like your own bodies! You have been intelligent or stupid, and prejudiced or unprejudiced, good or bad memorizing, skillful or unqualified working, attractive or unattractive speaking, and so on. These things are very important and affect to your lives very much. However, there is not only “the natural endowment” in your lives, there are some of effects that from your studies, practices, and improvements. Those things are from Daddy and Mommy, brothers and sisters, or your relatives, or teachers and friends later, or the environment around that you have been living in.
Have you ever paid attention to the children who try for standing or walking? You should observe them! It is not that they were born and knew how to walk at once, but they had to hold something in order to stand up, and later on, they could stand up by themselves. You would see, if they had bended and shook their bodies. They could not stand up, and they had to sit down. And they’d done again. There was not once or twice that they could stand up, but they had to practice again and again for many times. Then the adults hold their hands to walk with them. Then they learned how to walk by toddling, and they toddled by themselves one, two steps, day by day. That view was like you guys entering into your lives. You have to grope for each step; you need the help and instructions from parents or relatives. Why? Because parents or the elders had already experienced from those scopes, they had already known and they would show, and transfer to you guys their considers, and experiences from which could help you avoiding from failures, that’s all! But you know, generally in your ages, you guys would not pay much attention to those things. Your times are times to grow up, your health is so powerful, and your brains are developed so strongly that you thought you could do anything. You have known many things that you’ve thought the elders as your parents couldn’t know. For that reason, the children in family in your ages wouldn’t pay attention to your parents generally, and sometimes you guys would react boldly to the elders. You guys will only understand and know those situations when you have children, and you will be in the same positions.
My dears,
Not everyone could sing well and being famous as Madonna or M. Jackson. Those people have “the natural endowment”, but they have to learn, practice regularly in order to become so. At the beginning, you don’t know how to sing, and you have to sing by following the dish as singing karaoke. At first, your voice would not be prolonged, your voice wouldn’t quaver, but if you practice diligently you will be somewhat as if the singer. Then sometimes you could sing by yourself. You could have your good or bad, warmth, emotive voice naturally; but singing right rhythm, measure, quaver or not that depends on your skill, learning, and practicing. Just think and find out if daddy is right. From that, you should make your standard to observe some other things.
My dear children,
We are lucky to have the precious human bodies, but if we know to live in the suitable right way according to our human bodies and spirits and wisdom that could be more benefit to ourselves! Don’t you see plants? In raining seasons, enough water, they are fresh, and in the dry seasons, they are withered. Dry plants are still on the ground, and when raining again they turn into green manure in order to help new plants growing up again. The inanimate plants like that, but at least plants still benefit for the next generations. How about human being? Are we less than the plants? In public culture, this is described that until love and kindness for others are mature then a person is considered “a complete human being”. You guys should try to study, practice in order to give the profit to others. If there is no benefit to the society, at least you could help yourselves and your families. If you could not do that, you should commit that you won’t do anything that could harm the others or society, could you?
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Viết Cho Con: 2- Hãy Sống Xứng Đáng Là Một Con Người!
Hư Trúc translated
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