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The Gift to Our Children | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh

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    The greatest gift that parents can...
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    make to their children is their own happiness.
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    Parents don't have to...
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    to...
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    to leave behind a huge sum of money
    in order for their children to be happy.
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    The children they have their own capacity of making...
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    earning their life.
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    The greatest gift you can make to them
    is to be happy yourself as parents.
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    And if the husband knows how to take care of the wife,
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    knows how to talk to her,
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    knows how to to make her happy,
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    the children will know, will learn...
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    naturally from the art of their parents.
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    The parents don't have
    to teach their children.
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    They just live their life happily, taking care of each other.
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    And then children will naturally learn the art of happiness making.
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    And if parents create hell in a family,
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    then children will have no...
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    no faith in the family.
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    They will be afraid of building a family.
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    "I don't want to build hell
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    because my family,
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    the family of my father and mother is hell.
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    There's no reason why I have to build hell for myself."
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    So she has no faith in family.
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    You become a wounded child.
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    You don't believe in family.
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    You don't believe in ancestors.
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    You don't believe in father and mother.
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    And that is a big loss for the child.
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    And the suffering will be transmitted
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    to the later generation,
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    and that is a well of samsara.
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    Children will continue to suffer.
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    Just because one generation of ancestors have suffered and
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    was not able to stop...
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    the...
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    the suffering and to transform.
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    And that is a big lost.
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    Because family is a very solid unit of society.
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    And if the structure of the family is disintegrating,
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    then, society will disintegrate.
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    And that is what happens in our time.
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    The parents have to be responsible for their children.
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    And the best thing they can do
    is to inspire their children with confidence
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    by living with each other in harmony,
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    knowing how to make each other happy.
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    And that is the greatest gift they can make to their children.
Title:
The Gift to Our Children | Teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh
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English
Duration:
04:07

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