Daily Gosho Passages, 11/21/09

[Reginald Carpenter]

Daily Gosho Passages Nov. 21, 2009

"Although parents may rear ten children, a child gives no thought to
looking after his/ her aged mother. While a wife sleeps in the warm
embrace of her husband, she has no concern about offering warmth to take
the chill from her mother's feet."

Reference: "Letter to Gyobu Saemon-no-jo's Wife" Gosho; Gosho, p. 1504
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"If we were to steal so much as one coin or one go of rice from
another person, then we would end up in prison. And yet a mother may
put forth the kind of nourishment I have described for ten children, but
those children may fail to look after their only mother. A wife may
embrace and warm the body of her husband, but there is no wife to warm
the chilled legs of a mother."

Reference: "Reply to the Wife of Gyobu Saemon-no-jo" Gosho; WND Vol.
II, p. 895

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