- ☘️ Mother’s great kindness:
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🌸 Our mother carried us for 10 months in her womb, bringing us up tirelessly, thus her kindness is extremely great. It is mentioned in Dhamapada that the great kindness of our parents is not easy to recall. Even if the children are to repay their kindness by carrying their parents on their shoulders and walk for eons, it is impossible to repay one day of their kindness. Why so? Because, for parents to bring up their children and for their eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind to be healthy, it requires parents’ delicate care any time, every day….
- ◄☘️ Why do we give gifts on Mother’s Day?
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🌸 Make donations to support the monastery on behalf of your mother to propagate the Dharma to benefit all beings, and dedicate the merits to her.
🌸 Take part in “I want to write words of gratitude to my mother” Examples of gratitude words:
a. Grateful to you for having me, bringing me up, teaching me…
b. You took care of me when I was ill, encouraged me when I was down,forgiving me in every way, accompanying me as I grow…
c. Because of you, I am who I am today…
d. Paying tribute to your selfless and unconditional love…
e. May Triple Gem bless you with a healthy body and mind, and longevity.
🌸 The monastery will include your words of gratitude into a book of gratitude expression, offering it before the Buddha and Bodhisattvas, and seek their blessings for our mothers to have favourable conditions day and night, healthy body and mind, receiving the Triple Gem and Teachers’ care and protection life after life, have a human life of leisure and opportunity, learn the perfect teachings and attain Buddhahood swiftly to benefit all beings.
🌸 Fill in your gratitude words for your mum, we will help you to print out.
- ◄☘️ (I) Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
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Dedicate Great Merits to mothers with the following:
🌸 Designing and making Gratitude inscriptions for blessings for donors’ mothers to be offered at the altar, and dedicating merits for purification during vast offering.
🌸 l make exquisite Gratitude offering blessing card for donors’ mother:
Offer exquisite Dharma Conch - May mother be proficient with Dharma.
Offer Wondrous musical instruments - may mother’s voice be gentle and graceful.
Offer light - May mother’s wisdom be unobscured.
Offer flowers - May mother’s appearance be dignified and beautiful life after life. Beautiful praise verses will be written on behalf of mother as aspiration will also be attached mentioning that “Beautiful eyes and face like the lotus, with a bright moon adorning your hair bun, Sarasvasti dances gracefully, granting the voice of ease. Your beauty exceeds the wondrous moon, with melodious Brahma voice subduing all negativities, Liken to the limitless great virtues as the great ocean, respectfully pay obeisance to Saravasti’s body, speech and mind.
🌸 Meal offerings to Sangha and public: Offering meals to Sangha and public will reap the effects of abundance of clothes and food, prosperous life, good health and longevity, gathering virtuous connections.
- ◄☘️ (II) Monastery will acknowledge donations by:
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🌸Personally offering flowers: will result in dignified and beautiful appearance life after life.
🌸 Personally offering lamp: achieve intelligence and wisdom life after life.
🌸 Personally offering gems: receiving limitless fortune and wealth life after life.
🌸 Personally offering food: will result in having delicious cuisine life after life.
🌸 Participate in vast offering: The Buddha is the great merit field of the human and heavens reals, and by making offerings to the Buddha, the blessings and merits are boundless.
🌸 Inscription: inscribing of name to seek Buddha’s eternal blessings and care, avert calamities, increase blessing, longevity and auspiciousness.
🌸 Offering incense before the Buddha: through offering incense sincerely to the Buddha, one will have a purified and fragrant body, upholding precepts purely.
🌸 Dedication: Presiding Sangha will recite mothers’ names before the Triple Gem for dedication, in order for virtues, bliss and wisdom to increase limitlessly.
🌸 A bouquet of flowers paired with a delicate chanting beads, expressing love and devotion to your mum.
