【Description】
The ancients believed that families whose lineage is passed down via virtue can last more than 10 generations, whereas families whose lineage is passed down via wealth won’t last more than three generations. Virtue is the root of a family’s lasting prosperity. Although money can create temporary
prosperity and development, it won’t last long in the absence of virtue.
Virtue is essential to helping your future generations live in prosperity. What is the reason? How do we make virtue the cornerstone of family life? Let’s learn from Grandmaster JinBodhi and bring home the secret of family prosperity.
【You will learn】
- Benefits of “passing down family lineage via virtue
- Ways to make your family flourish and your children successful
【Featured aphorisms】
- Help others in need without a second thought. Make good deeds your natural response. This is genuine compassion.
- Families who pass down virtues experience long-term prosperity. Virtues include compassion, ethics and morals.
- When parents know how to guide their children spiritually, the kids can become successful regardless of other sorts of education.
【Content】
Make a habit of helping others, being moral and doing good deeds compassionately. Automatically help others. If someone has difficulties, I will naturally help. Make it your automatic reflex. This is real compassion.
When this becomes a habit, I am telling you, you may not get rich in this life. Nor will you become a president, a general, a medical doctor or a hotel owner. But what will you gain in the end? Your family will have a bright future. You don’t need to yell at, spank or be worried about your children for them to become good talented people who contribute a lot to society and the world. This is your spirit’s influence on them.
I have summarized it in 8 words: Families who pass down virtue experience long-term prosperity. Virtue refers to compassion, ethics and morals.
I have seen many cultured families remain prosperous for dozens of generations. They were taught moral conduct and culture by parents who naturally use morals to teach their kids. Because of moral conduct, merit and virtue are generated. Merit and virtue lead to beings who are pure and at ease reincarnating as the family’s offspring, bringing peace, ease and incomparable prosperity. These people also have good looks. I have been to places and seen families with good legacies of not only culture but also good looks. This is the lineage of families who pass down virtue.
Treat others compassionately. Don’t be focused on immediate benefit. Say, you expect a reward for helping others; then that “help” becomes a transaction. Once it is a transaction, then the bond and auspicious energy from helping another disappears or lessens.
So make a habit of helping others, being moral and doing good deeds compassionately. This is the outward sign of merit and virtue.