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Complementary to the youngins generation’s obligation of filial piety and ancestor veneration is elders and ancestors while living to pass on through language , speech , writing , music , iconography , wisdom on reproducing and producing and fun.
"Complementary to the obligation of ancestor veneration, which involves honoring the deceased to ensure their well-being and positive disposition...,<
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Charles Brown honoring ancestral generations helps to ensure the wellbeing and positive disposition of the LIVING GENERATION , NOT THE DEAD ANCESTORS ( smiles ) . The Dead are beyond wellbeing , but their life experiences received by the living by IMITATING THE CUSTOMS PASSED ON , helps to ensure the wellbeing, the commonweal, of the Living <
"...the obligation of ancestral generations (or, more accurately, the current generation as it becomes the ancestral one) to legacy generations is to ensure the continuation of the family, community, and the world in a healthy state. This includes passing on crucial elements of making a living and reproducing for future generations to thrive".<
Key obligations to legacy generations include:
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• Preservation and Transmission of Knowledge and Culture: Ancestral generations have a duty to pass down cultural heritage, family stories, traditions, values, and time-tested wisdom. This ensures a sense of identity, belonging, and continuity for descendants.
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I think what you wrote is very true. My own experience reflects this in a powerful way. My father was never able to teach me about safety, peace, love, or any of the other foundations that make a meaningful life. What he could teach me was survival. He was in and out of my life because of addiction, and there were many incidents of domestic violence toward my mother while I watched. I was abandoned many times. None of those experiences gave me security, but they did shape my ability to survive.
Before he died, I had come to terms with all of this. I thanked him at his bedside for teaching me survival and told him that I understood that a person cannot teach what they do not know. He could not teach me peace, love, safety, or stability because he never had those things himself.
I am from the southern part of the United States, and filial piety is still a strong cultural value here. The difficulty is that many parents hear the phrase honor thy father and thy mother but do not connect it with the responsibility to grow, heal, or become someone who can lead with wisdom. It becomes the blind leading the blind. Children see that inconsistency and often rebel because something in them recognizes that the respect is not mutual and the leadership is not grounded.
Maybe this was different in the earlier generations of America when people worked harder on themselves and on their communities. As adults forget to make themselves into their better selves, children forget how to honor them. The relationship weakens on both sides. I think your sentence reflects that shared responsibility and the way each generation affects the next.
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