Learning and practising Buddhism can and should gradually help us be more patient and tolerant towards others. While we may not subscribe to our parents’ beliefs, we can be filial to them in many other ways. Spend time with them, listen to them, talk to them, accompany them to the market, bring them for walks etc.

Resolution between beliefs … need resolution between the two parties involved. It is indeed uneasy to do so. Start with ‘befriending’ your mother and genuinely spend time with her, bearing in mind, those activities that are wholesome, vs that which is unwholesome. The resolution part should be a natural progression, and not simply a goal we work at. ^_^

I’m a Buddhist; a believer of the triple gem for almost 5 years… but also a daughter who has a different set of beliefs from my mother. After all these years of not expecting any further understanding from my mother – my beliefs has gradually led me away; bringing about distance between us…so has my beliefs/ faith brought about peace, harmony or happiness to myself and others? Time to time, I’d find myself asking: which is important – one’s own happiness/salvation or one’s obedience to your parents for their definition of “wordly happiness”? Can there truly ever be a resolution in reality when there is differences between “my and your” beliefs?