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The Essence of the Filial Piety in Won-Budhism

  • Journal of Korean Hyo Studies
  • 2009, (10), pp.63-87
  • Publisher : The Korean Hyo Studies Association
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

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1원광효도마을

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ABSTRACT

Is it too distant to reach the world where filial piety flows like river? Filial piety is an ethical thought living in our hearts as standards of every behavior as well as a foundation of morality in the long history of the world. It is our national tradition of long history to live under "filial piety", the absolute virtue to respect. And as a prove, it is not so hard to see phrases such as "family on the brink", "filial piety in crisis", and "ruined morality and ethics" in our daily living. In the end, it is a real situation of the present society that the virtue of filial piety got so totally ruined that this society couldn't help making "the law of filial piety promotion and support". What caused the moral crisis could be found in a few negative phenomena like "nuclear families", "materialism", and "selfishness", but affirmatively speaking, it must be triggered by family crisis stemmed from humanity loss and absence of activities to put filial piety thought into practice. In the light of the present trend, the study is aimed at making the society more clean and brighter place to live in by spreading the elderly respecting thought and recovering originality and spirit of the filial piety virtue. How could the filial piety be recovered? Subjects of the study are about "filial piety of Won-Buddhism" and it is aimed at guiding directions and answers, centering on filial piety thought of Won-Buddhism in Chongjon and Taejonggyong, for the present trend and problems. The filial piety of Won-Buddhism could be featured by classifying its categories into five ones(;Filial Piety of Grace, Filial Piety of Gratitude, Filial Piety of Requital, Filial Piety of Reverence, and Filial Piety of Buddha-Offerings) What is keenly required in the rapidly changing situation of families, societies, nations, and the world are just to recover humanity and to realize the world full of moral consciousness. The Won-Buddhism, faced with the demands of times, tries to find answers for fundamentally solving the problems of times and recovering humanity from the "Indebtedness to The Fourfold Grace " which is essence of the mankind. In other words, to find the indebtedness and to put requital into practice Sotaesan(; Founder of the Won-Buddhism) declared could make the filial piety of Won-Buddhism bear fruits and help the all sentient beings led to the vast and boundless world of happiness, away from the billowing sea of suffering. As believers of confucianism said the filial piety is basis of every behavior and essence of virtue, it should be secured from bottom of morality torecover the humanity and realize moral society. A core value in the filial piety of Won-Buddhism should be found in indebtedness to The Fourfold Grace based on The Grace of Parents. The filial piety of Won-Buddhism are featured in finding the grace to The Fourfold Grace, the vast and limitless body, connected to the Filial Piety of Gratitude, Requital, Reverence, and Buddha-Offerings. In line with the fact, the five filial piety thoughts of Won-Buddhism(The Essence of Filial Piety in Won-Budhism) should be recognized not only with regard to value, but also existence. Furthermore, it should be shared that the filial thought of Won-Buddhism could be a fundamental basis to be freely communicated with any ideology or religion. Now and here, Wouldn't you see we are creating the society where the filial piety flows like the river?

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