【Description】
A father’s love is like a mountain that can lift the sky.
A father is the backbone of a family. His deep and selfless love is always there, even if the child hasn’t noticed it. A father does his best to protect his child without hesitation.
Please listen to this true story and feel the depth and greatness of a father’s love. Learn to understand your father and send the most auspicious blessing to him.
【You will learn】
- A touching story
- To understand your father’s love and send blessings to him
【Content】
Let me tell you a true story I have told before. A girl’s parents divorced when she was little. Her mother told her only bad things about her father, because her mother hated him. Hatred happens among some divorced couples. The girl didn’t know this, of course. Every time she asked her mom about her father, her mom said that her father was a bad guy, and recounted all the bad things he had done. These bad stories made the little girl believe that her dad was indeed a bad person.
To make a long story short, the girl grew up. One day when planning her wedding, she felt sick. The doctor told her that she had incurable liver cancer. When faced with death, people change their minds and feel differently about things. This girl wanted to meet her father before she died. She told her mom about her wish, and her mom told the girl’s father. After all, it was the wish of her dying daughter, so she put her mixed feelings aside.
When the father was told of his daughter’s condition, he asked her doctor if there was any way to save his daughter’s life. The doctor said the only way was a liver transplant. Then she’d have a chance. A maybe, not a guarantee. This father didn’t hesitate, and asked immediately for a test to find out if he could donate his liver. The doctor checked him thoroughly, and his liver was healthy. He thought that if he gave his liver to his daughter, her body wouldn’t reject it.
The doctor said this was true, but the father’s heart was too weak to withstand a major operation. The father wasn’t afraid and insisted on donating his liver, willing to risk his own life. The operation was successful and the daughter survived. The father left a touching letter to her, telling his daughter that finally he had done something for her that made him proud of himself. It wasn’t true that he didn’t love his daughter. I believe every father loves his child.
We should never doubt it. Their love is stronger than we can express. Maybe you can’t remember right now. I hope all of you, my old and new students, can feel gratitude toward your parents, toward your ancestors. let’s chant in gratitude for our fathers. Pray to the Medicine Buddha and all deities in the Eastern Lapis Lazuli Land, to all Buddhas and bodhisattvas, pray that they bless our fathers, and all fathers before us.
Let all fathers receive auspiciousness. We wish them health, and freedom. For the fathers who have passed, we pray and wish that they be born into Heaven, into the Eastern Lapis Lazuli Land, and wish them eternal freedom from suffering.