On July 21, 2024 (Sunday) 9:00am, Ocean Sky will hold the Ullambana Filial Piety Ceremony. By reciting the Ullambana Sutra and making meal offerings to the Buddha and Sangha, we pray that through the compassion of the Three Jewels, our parents in past lives will be liberated and reborn in better realms, and our living parents will enjoy bountiful blessings and long lives. In this way, we truly repay their kindness and show our respect.
It is written in the Ullambana Sutra that Maudgalyayana, using his supernatural Dharma eye, saw his deceased mother suffering in the realm of hungry ghosts as retribution for her evil deeds. He offered her a bowl of food, but it turned into ashes right away. The Buddha taught him how to save his mother: “On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, the culmination of the Sangha summer retreat, make an offering of the finest food to the Three Jewels. The limitless merits obtained from such offerings can liberate our parents in the past seven or more lives from suffering. This is how we can repay their love and kindness in raising us.”
Everyone is invited to take part in this auspicious ceremony to listen to and cultivate the Dharma. May all sentient beings be blessed with merits and wisdom as well as attain enlightenment together.
| Time | Schedule of Ceremony | |
| 08:30 | Registration | Sign in |
| 09:00 | First Incense |
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| 10:30 | Second Incense |
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| 12:30 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 | Ride the Ox Home |
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