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Our parents' kindness
SN 7.19 · Saṃyutta Nikāya — The Connected Discourses
A question to carry today
What concrete shape does caring for your parents take in your life right now?
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 7.19
– 2. Lay Followers
At Sāvatthī.
Then a brahmin who provided for his mother went up to the Buddha, and exchanged greetings with him.
When the greetings and polite conversation were over, he sat down to one side and said to the Buddha, “Worthy Gotama, I seek alms by legitimate means, which I use to provide for my mother and father. In doing so, am I doing my duty?”
“Indeed, brahmin, in so doing you are doing your duty. Whoever seeks alms by legitimate means, and uses them to provide for their mother and father brims with much merit.
When he said this, the brahmin who provided for his mother said to the Buddha, “Excellent, worthy Gotama! Excellent! … From this day forth, may the worthy Gotama remember me as a lay follower who has gone for refuge for life.”
On the calendar: Friday 13 August 2027
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