Sunday 4 March 2012

What is Filial Piety? (何為孝)





天下之大﹐母親之親唯親。
天下之最﹐孝順為最之最。

Dear All,

Lunar New Year just over and soon, we will be ready to honour our Ancestors during Qing Ming Festival Period.

So what is Filial Piety to you?

You can be a very well-educated person, you can be a CEO of an Listed Company or you can be High-recognised Religious Leader, but if you are not being known as a Filial person, you are nothing in this World.

In the attachment is a picture of a 40 years old ++ married-man whom carried his ill-mother to the hospital for consultation on 2nd March 2012.

This picture was taken by one of the family members of a patient in the hospital and from her description, when the crowd saw that this man came into the hospital with his mother cruddled in the arms, many people couldnt stop their tears rolling down.

In the modern World today, is Monetary more important that many of us had forgotten about what is Filial Piety?

By looking at this picture, ponder over this question - Have I did my best to assist my own Mum when she encounters problem?

4 comments:

  1. Touching,no word to express my feeling.

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  2. Follow-up report:

    This son was a High ranking officer in one of the Official Sector.

    Due to he had to take care of the ill-parent, he gave up his high paid job and his rank.

    This is something that we needed to learn and observed.

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