🎧 Free audiobook!! “Parents and Children” is an audiobook of Bodhi Leaves No. 151 by Medagama Vajirañāṇa, narrated by Ethan Christy. 🎧 Stream or download for free: store.pariyatti.org/parents-children-bl151-audiobook Excerpt: The moral code comes first in family life, without which selfish desires and resentment might leave no relationship unharmed. In the family the parent is committed to guarding, supporting and guiding the child, equally in pain and pleasure, in success and failure, remembering that authority is bound up with forgiveness. A family that trains in coping with pain and disappointment, pleasure and greed, is itself the best educational institution. This training of the conscience is provided through the two great protectors of righteousness: shame (hiri) and fear (ottappa). Hiri is the embarrassment we feel when we find ourselves not adhering to the good behavioural pattern that we expect of ourselves; ottappa is the dread of punishment or retribution if one is caught committing some wrong, or the dread of the kammic result of an unwholesome act. 🔍Browse all free audiobooks: store.pariyatti.org/free-audiobooks Free BPS eBook of this title: bps.lk/olib/bl/bl151_Vajiranyana_Parents-and-Children--Transmitting-Buddhist-Heritage.pdf A big thank you to the volunteer narrator. May your service be of benefit to many! (fb)

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