On the occasion of the arriving blessing day

Thanks to the children who gave words of blessing to their father

Though the father is already old in years

Now still lucid, that makes the father content

In the past so many worries, oh!

The five organs so many times were ill

Settling down so many headache troubles

The family helped through the night, forever remembered

Thanks to Heaven, thanks to Buddha, long remembered

Thanks also to the ancestors who have long blessed

to be able to live properly

Also because husband and wife took care living together!

Now the children get to live together

With four-fold charitable hearts we help one another.

Dad's teaching, the child has heart to advise

To eat as one pleases is the father's right

So nine meals eaten freely

Now the belly bloats too much

Not yet time to digest

Again

aching persistently, lying prone sighing

Who would think, many children, flocks of grandchildren

Again advise eating boldly, nothing to worry about

Now only understand the folly

Next year eat less but carefully, dad's teaching

Being wise thus is joyful

Eating too excessively, filled up foolishly.

Glad that the child remembers father

Wishing father health is also joy of age

Dad's teaching truly of the person

America has been reached in this life

Thanks to the one who raised us fully

Thanks to the one who advised heartfelt words

Thanks to the one who lived warmly

Thanks to the one who created lasting blessings for later

Life's matters are matters of repaying and borrowing

The child here forever remembers days beside father

Now father is already old in years

Praying the person forever comes and goes steadfastly

The child here does not betray the grace above

Filial loyalty and propriety resolutely remembered.

You just had your gallbladder removed, didn't you?

Cut it out, does it torment you?

If not, that's fortunate, very fortunate indeed

Wishing you quick recovery, healthy not pale

Day and night cared for, thanks to the children and wife

You too worry less, and heal quickly

Grace and blessing from above, protecting and helping

Praying so, obtaining it, your friend rejoices for you.

Winter passed, the snow is gone now

Grass and trees leafless, earth and sky so sad!

Now Spring has bloomed at once

The weather so lovely, flowers now bud forth

Spring wind blows cool, oh joy!

Folk from all lands, standing sitting making a living

Bát Tràng, enduring hardship, frugal

So everyone has enough mat and blanket, happy now!

Heaven grants three lives of reincarnation

Past, present, and future, in due time they bloom

As the cause, so the fruit, through life

If the cause is good, the fruit becomes better

If the cause is rotten, weak and soft

The fruit becomes shriveled small, plus bugs and flies

Everything has a beginning and an end

Head goes, tail slips through, nothing late at all.

If the head is sickly and sorrowful

How can the tail be healthy, live long!

In the end still wishing

Also by cause and effect, though the knife has bound

This life, not living in balance

Next life cause and effect, debts repaid and borrowed,

Fruit-cause, cause-fruit bloom now

The best good deed, live straight, live kind.

Patient hearts that never part

Age over eighty, that debt at the head

today still able to live long

thanks to the grace, then deep never forgotten

In how much has been repaid

Filial loyalty fully complete above, content now

Praying to heaven [?] my brother

be joyful, be healthy, without fault be at peace.

A hundred years yet blissful as an immortal!

Having sons, having daughters, so heavenly helping!

Help by day, help by month properly

Help eating, help drinking, help so it is full.

Plus the government helps abundantly

Having people assist, joyful night after night

Hygiene, bathing, gentle

Medicine on time, washing clothes too

Regarded like family, close kin

Kim, Như, fairy maidens, attentive all the time!

How to forget such moments like this!

Buddha grants blessings, thanks forever remembered!

Age high, nearly eighty

With a high doctorate, how many people praise!

Helping the world, bright like a lamp!

Relatives together help, no more darkness, now bright!

A good idea, just enjoy gradually

Money though little, has been supplemented!

Hoping everyone finds peace

Thus the heart is happy, gently content!