The Deep Kindness of Parents and the Difficulty of Repaying It:
The kindness of providing protection and care while the child is in the womb.
The kindness of bearing suffering during the birth.
The kindness of forgetting all the pain once the child has been born.
The kindness of eating the bitter herself and saving the sweet for the child.
The kindness of moving a child to a dry place and lying in the wet place herself.
The kindness of suckling the child at her breast and nourishing and bringing up the child.
The kindness of washing away the unclean.
The kindness of always thinking of the child when s/he is traveling far.
The kindness of deep care and devotion.
The kindness of ultimate compassion and sympathy.