Teacher: Song
Teacher Song mentioned that we need to take care of our parent's body, mind, and spiritual.
From my interpretation our parent's body is their physical feature, appearance, health, and also death preparation. As long as they two hands, two legs, looks healthy, and when they die bury them or burn them, and that would make us good/dutiful child. Right?
The taking care of mind part is hard. I think the mind is their perception, logic, consciousness, thought, and their memories. They always have the perception of "if its not break, why fix it", and "this is just me" mentality. Furthermore, unless there is some major incident that affects things that they most cared about, they will never change. Therefore, I think I will be very careful on this part. Teachers from LuJiang did mention to be compassionate and teach our parent the ways of saint and sages. However, I would interpret it as if I am not practicing the ways of saint and sages, I will not teach it to my parent. What would you do in this situation?
The spiritual realm is really beyond me. Maybe you guys can give some suggestions.
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It is important that we take care of our parents' mind. When you want to do something, but your parents are against you, then you can persuade them in a gentle way. By telling them stories or watching movies with them that contain moral values, I think this way itself is also a way we practice to become saints and sages.
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