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Our parents' kindness
SN 15.4 · Saṃyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses
A question to carry today
What have you received from your mother that cannot be measured?
One small act today
Sometime this week, cook or share one meal with your parents, or an elder in the family, phone put away.
Across these 49 days there is no need to finish a whole scroll each day. Read the full scroll when time allows; when life is full, a single chapter — or part of one — still keeps the practice and the connection to the sūtra alive. 🙏
– Linked Discourses 15.4
– Chapter One
At Sāvatthī.
“Mendicants, this transmigration has no known beginning. No first point is found of sentient beings roaming and transmigrating, shrouded by ignorance and fettered by craving.
What do you think? Which is more: the mother’s milk you’ve drunk while roaming and transmigrating for such a very long time, or the water in the four oceans?”
“As we understand the Buddha’s teaching, the mother’s milk we’ve drunk while roaming and transmigrating is more than the water in the four oceans.”
“Good, good, mendicants! It’s good that you understand my teaching like this. The mother’s milk you’ve drunk while roaming and transmigrating for such a very long time is more than the water in the four oceans.
Why is that? This transmigration has no known beginning. … This is quite enough for you to become disillusioned, dispassionate, and freed regarding all conditions.”
On the calendar: Thursday 12 August 2027
Missing a day is fine — simply read on.