Hình ảnh Lễ 49 Ngày của Mẹ - Pictures of the 49 Days Ceremony for Our Mother's Passing

Photos by Xuan Trang of Kim Quang Temple.

SILENCE

For Paris and musician Anh Bang - Photo: BXK

SILENCE

The six sounds of the chime spread through the air
This world is real and unreal
This realm
Exists
and unexists

Comes and goes in this kingdom
Stop
Silence
Leisurely flow
As free as the limitless clouds!


For Vietnamese version, please click here: 

TĨNH LẶNG

MOTHER LETTING GO OF HER HAIR -- LOVING HER FOREVER (Mẹ Xả Tóc )

MOTHER LETTING GO OF HER HAIR -- LOVING HER FOREVER

Mother always lives her life the way it should be:

Caring, loving, with devotion, and tolerance.

All mothers' love mortifies The Cradle by Berthe Morisot:

It is the embodiment of

Poetry,

Landscape,

Seascape,

Soundscape.

Mother's life is packed with compassionate heart and mind.

Today, letting go of her hair, she lets go of all negativities;

The seed of Bodhi sprouts awaken, in homage to Buddha.

Oh! Mother, may you live so our lives undergo less suffering.

Even though we understand impermanence,

mother's shore is beckoning

this human realm always, dreamable nonetheless unpredictable.

We wish to still have you,

Mother! Even so thin and skinny you have turned out to be,

We wish to still have you, Mother, 

in order for us to understand the ups and downs of this human realm.

Let go of this hair – let go of this realm

with love and peace.

 For Vietnamese version of this poem, please click here: MẸ XẢ TÓC--TRỌN ĐỜI THƯƠNG MẸ!

For Vietnamese song of this poem, please click below.
Music by Nguyên Quang, singer: Huy Hoàng
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v693V6Sxk0w