Welcome home! Please contact lincoln@icrontic.com if you have any difficulty logging in or using the site. New registrations must be manually approved which may take several days. Can't log in? Try clearing your browser's cookies.
What are responsibilities of youngest brother towards elder sister as per Buddhism?
rohit
Maharrashtra Veteran
In Hinduism brother has to protect his sister. Is there anything said in Buddhism about responsibilities of youngest brother towards older sisters.
0
Comments
as to brothers and sisters, I would guess that everything ever written about Sila, Samadhi, and Prajna. "To abstain from all evil, to cultivate good, and to purify one's mind." would apply in your attitude to any fellow human, regardless of their relation to you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutra_of_Filial_Piety
Some of the incorporation was mental gymnastics-- the stereotypical Buddhist idea is a monk who gives up his home and family to join the sangha-- a big Chinese no-no.
So the sangha got reframed as sort of a family of it's own-- for example monks could "inherit" a temple from the monk who ordained them. And a monks duties to their biological parents included the transference of merit to your parents-- one story recounts how a monk saved his departed mom from the realm of Hungry ghosts.
I don't have the reference, but some historian argued that when Buddhism was in India, that monks didn't follow the stereotypical renunciate ideal and mixed Buddhism and general Indian custom, which would have included duties to parents as per usual (but I suppose up to but not including having making grand kids for the parents!).
It's a new day for Buddhadharma too.
The opportunity to leave the dust and heat and culture and noise of Asia behind.
Filial and familial responsibility as defIned in Asian culture were redefined by Buddhadharma and replaced by relationship freely entered into.
I actually still don't get what your point is. The question is simple. a simple answer, with reference where need be, would be welcome.
The Buddhist solution was to see everyone as your family, since if you believe in full strength reincarnation, everyone has been your father, brother, and 3rd cousin before, an infinite # of times.
Now apply this to the 4000 other family systems and cultures around the world and the answer is the same-- regardless to the social contract you are born into, in the Buddhist system, you should see everyone, including blood relations as family.
While modern times may have lifted the burden of taking care of mom & dad when they are senile from the kids (hospices and hospitals do the work now, paid by pensions), it doesn't lift the burden from Buddhists-- our task is actually more burdensome, we are now responsible for everyone.