181. There are two people you can never repay. What two? Your father and your mother.
Even if you were to carry them on your back and live a hundred years, supporting them, anointing them with medicines, bathing and massaging their limbs and wiping up their excrement after them, even this would not repay them. Even if you were to give them absolute rule over the whole world, this would not repay them. And why? Because parents do much for their children – they bring them up, nourish them, they introduce them to the world.
But whoever encourages his unbelieving parents to believe, his immoral parents to be virtuous, his stingy parents to be generous, his foolish parents to be wise, such a one by so doing does repay, does more than repay his parents.
Anguttara Nikaya I.61
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Dear Michael,
do you know where this is from (181 what?).
I know, it’s from the Buddha Vacana by Ven. Dhammika, but all search redirects to this source.
I thought, maybe you have a clue where it’s from.
Best Wishes,
Mirco
By: Mirco on 07/17/2015
at 9:05 pm
Dear Michael,
do you know where this is from (181 what?).
I know, it’s from the Buddha Vacana by Ven. Dhammika, but all search redirects to this source.
I thought, maybe you have a clue where it’s from.
Best Wishes,
Mirco
Sorry, wrong email in above comment
By: Mirco on 07/17/2015
at 9:06 pm
I will try to find the exact source for you
By: Upāsaka on 07/17/2015
at 9:10 pm
Hi Michael, I found it. It says “Anguttara Nikaya I.61”.
In the Android app, the source for each quote is given
below the text – but not in the pc version, so I missed it.
The “181” is just the counting inside the app, so, it’s the 181th day. *Haha* I just recognized, it’s in this posting above, too.
Be Well 🙂
By: Upāsaka Mirco on 07/22/2015
at 11:38 am
Great work! Sadhu!
By: Upāsaka on 07/22/2015
at 12:08 pm