We Buddhists are completely vegetarian; This was advocated by Sakyamuni Buddha three thousand years ago. After all, modern people are smarter than before and know that vegetarianism is good. In the medical field, for example, a Swiss doctor of medicine wrote a book called Why to Be a Vegetarian. From a medical point of view, he stressed that if people are vegetarian for a long time, they will not have a serious illness; It's easy to get well even if you have a serious illness. Not only is it easy to get better, but the body also recovers quickly.

There is a sanatorium in Taipei that advocates vegetarianism. Not only are all patients in this sanatorium vegetarian, but even doctors and nurses are vegetarian! There is a Hong Kong An Hospital in Hong Kong, which is an organization run by the Christian Church, and there is also a sanatorium in Taipei. Christians have always believed that flesh and blood was originally created by God and should be given to people. How can they advocate vegetarianism?

I once went to Hong Kong An Hospital to see a patient, and when I met a doctor in the hospital, I asked about it. The doctor told me: "We are vegetarian not because of religious beliefs, but from a medical point of view. In fact, many scientists have studied that when animals are killed on their deathbed, they will produce great anger and terror; Blood will secrete toxins, and humans will be poisoned if they eat them. As usual, as long as we are angry, there will be a toxin in our blood. This statement is recorded in ancient medical books.

Master Dadeyin of Pure Land Sect often advocates one thing; Mother can't be angry when breastfeeding; Elephants get angry when they quarrel. They must not be fed at this time, otherwise the baby will die even if it is eaten. This is called "poisoned milk kills the baby". Few people publicize this matter now, and the founders of Yin Guang attach great importance to it. He also explained: If a breast-feeding mother has an atmosphere, she must express the milk. It's best to take a day off and wait until her mood is stable and her blood is normal before breastfeeding.

2. Vegetarian food is nutritious and hygienic.

Some people think that vegetarian food is not nutritious enough. If it was forty or fifty years ago, it might be reasonable to say that vegetarian food was not nutritious enough. At that time, even meat was not nutritious enough, and even rice was not enough! Modern people have too much nutrition, so many civilized diseases are mostly caused by overnutrition.

Many athletes are vegetarians, because vegetarianism is not only nutritious, but also healthy and endurance. Vegetarian food is indeed rich in nutrition and the cleanest, which is recognized and advocated by nutritionists, scientists and medical scientists.

These are all modern knowledge. How can modern people still have the outdated concept of being vegetarian and not having enough nutrition? What do you think cows and horses eat? They are all eating grass! Look at them, they are so strong. Where is the vegetarian food without nutrition? Vegetarian food is really nutritious, and there is no toxin of blood and meat!

The pain of killing is endless.

Nowadays, many people in society are vegetarian for health; Our disciples who study Buddhism are vegetarians, mainly to cultivate compassion. Although he is also a vegetarian, he has different intentions; Different intentions, of course, have different feelings .

You know, when animals are slaughtered, they always want revenge because of extreme pain and resentment. Look at the word "meat",

Look from the glyph, there are two people, these two "people" are not side by side, but are integrated from top to bottom; It means that you ride on his head and he asks you to kill him; But once he turns over, he will eat you again. The Shurangama Sutra says, "People die like sheep, and sheep die like people." That is, "man eats man"! That's how The six great divisions in the wheel of karma spins up and down.

There is an example to watch out for: once upon a time, there was an arhat who passed the six-way pass, went out to beg, passed by a family and was holding a wedding to marry the bride. Lohan, who has an eye for pearls and an ill-fated fate, can see the true image of the six divisions in the wheel of karma. Seeing these people eating the wedding banquet, he said four words with emotion: "It's a pity that life is bitter, and children and grandchildren marry their grandmothers;" Sit on the cattle and sheep mat and cook the pot of six parents. "

How do you say these four sentences? Unfortunately, life is upside down. It's really bitter. It turns out that the bride's former life was the groom's grandmother; Grandma was reborn as a young lady because she loved her grandson, so she married her grandson because of her feelings. Do you think it is upside down? Those who came to congratulate the guests all ate cattle, sheep and other animals in previous lives; The meat cooked in the pot and prepared for the guests is the six relatives who ate those cattle and sheep before. Samsara is such a bitter, living fact that it is not false at all!

4. The injustice of the sword comes from the mouth.

Usually people die and are buried in graves, and meat eaters eat big fish and meat in their bellies. Isn't that an animal's grave? Do you think it's dirty to bury animals in your stomach? Is it unhealthy? There are still people who eat snakes and cats. As soon as ........................................................................................................................................................................ animals are eaten, ghosts will follow them. Are you afraid of getting even with you one day and killing you?

Many converted disciples often come to master to complain. Let me talk about the root of these sufferings now. I hope that everyone will take a good look at themselves, repent, cultivate happiness and be recruited by others. Nothing is to blame, especially for others. If a person suffers from a disease that can't even see Chinese and western medicine well, it is called "karmic disease", and most of these "karmic diseases" are eaten from the mouth. But how to repent and cultivate happiness? At the very least, you should be a vegetarian and believe in Buddhism. Because of this mouth, I don't know how many sins I have made and how many grievances I have made.

Look! The slaughterhouse in Taipei alone killed hundreds of cows, pigs, fish and thousands of chickens and ducks in one day. Who are all these people killed for? Aren't they all killed for people who eat? Who will receive these results? Who killed you? You know! If you don't eat, no one will buy the sentient beings killed today. If you let him kill tomorrow, he won't kill them. Because you want to eat, kill, and everyone creates evil for each other, and what goes around comes around! We Buddha disciples should be conscious in this place!

Everyone lives in the mountains and is vegetarian these days, so you won't participate in the killing karma in Taiwan Province Province these days; If this kills karma and leads to future wars, even the atomic bomb will not die on your head. Why? How can you feel the consequences without creating evil reasons? In the past, people often survived bullets. What is the truth? He doesn't have this bad karma!

The ancients said: "For thousands of years, the grievances in the bowl of ocean deep are hard to settle; If you want to know the sword robbery in the world, you can only listen to the butcher's door at midnight. "Why is there a sword in the world? Most of them are eaten from the population. One person was killed, one person was killed; The same is true for a family and even a country. Buddhism talks about cause and effect, and whether you believe it or not, it is true!

Based on compassion, Buddhists usually attach great importance to liberation; In fact, vegetarianism is the best release. As long as you are a vegetarian, you can save a hundred lives; If a person is not a vegetarian, he will eat fish today and meat tomorrow and accumulate. I don't know how many lives he has eaten in his life! We usually only know tiger poison and snake venom. How many people did the tiger kill and how many people did the poisonous snake kill? To tell the truth, people who are not vegetarians are many times more poisonous than tigers and poisonous snakes! Don't be a poisonous snake, a poisonous tiger!

If you still want to eat meat, then I tell you: now that you have eaten well, don't complain when it's time to pay off your debts. When you know that you have to pay your debts when you kill someone, what you get in return is short life and infirmity. In the future, you will fall into hell in three ways. I advise you to stop killing vegetarians and avoid pain!

5. Convenient vegetarian side dishes

Are you a vegetarian after hearing this? If you find it inconvenient to be a vegetarian, you are making excuses yourself. If it's really inconvenient, eat a "convenient vegetarian". What is a "convenience element"? This does not mean that it is convenient for you to eat meat, but that you can eat quietly at home and go out conveniently. For example, when going to a relative's house for dinner, the host uses a meat pot to make vegetarian dishes; Even if there is no vegetarian food to eat, it is convenient to eat, and it is ok to eat meat dishes.

Master Huineng, the sixth ancestor, only eats meat and vegetables when he is with hunters. Even if the table is full of meat and there is no food to eat, will a meal without food be less nutritious? If you are really compassionate, how can you bear to bite the meat?

Others think that if the host treats you and doesn't eat meat, it is impolite and sorry for others. Is that a reason? I remember not long ago, we went to Yuli Town, Hualien for a meeting. The mayor is a woman. She is a vegetarian. She told me that there are more than 300 towns in the east, and two of them are vegetarians. They can all be vegetarians when they socialize politically. What's inconvenient for everyone to be a vegetarian?

I have a female converted disciple in Hong Kong who is also a vegetarian. Her husband is a big entrepreneur and often socializes; Although she is a vegetarian herself, she still socializes with her husband. Wherever she goes, she takes bread and pickles; At dinner, she eats these bread and pickles. Someone asked her, "Why are you a vegetarian? Seeing that the other person's foundation is not suitable for talking, she said, "I have a bad stomach, and the doctor told me not to eat meat." "A word is clean. Seeing that the other person has a good explanation, tell others a vegetarian truth.

There are too many benefits of vegetarianism. As Buddhists, for the sake of health, we should be vegetarian. From the standpoint of moral causality, we should be vegetarian unconditionally and not bargain.

6. Be compassionate and skillful when cooking vegetarian food.

Sometimes, family members don't like being vegetarian. As a member of the family, it is necessary to cultivate bodhicitta to educate the family so that they will not create bad karma. This must be broken through, especially housewives, who must learn to cook vegetarian dishes well. Don't just cook meat dishes, not vegetarian dishes. Because your vegetarian dishes are tasteless, of course your family thinks vegetarian dishes are not delicious. In fact, it is not that vegetarian dishes are not delicious, but that they will not be seasoned; Meat dishes are tasteless if they are not well mixed.

In the future, we should change our ideas, study hard and make vegetarian dishes more delicious than meat dishes. Of course, my family likes it. Roasted meat dishes are tasteless, or they are cooked half-baked, which naturally makes the family feel disgusted. In fact, as long as a family eats well and tastes good, how can they care about nutrition? When it comes to nutrition, vegetarian food has the highest nutritional value. Learning Buddhism requires wisdom, compassion, and skillful and convenient understanding.

People's ideas are very important. As long as he knows the benefits of vegetarianism, he will naturally become a vegetarian, so he can always mention the benefits of vegetarianism at home. In addition, prepare some vegetarian books and put them at home for husband and children to read; When they saw it, they knew, "Oh! So good! " Be careful and find ways to spend more time with your family, so that everyone can be United.

If you have a strong family business, you still like to eat meat, which forces you to have no choice; Then, in this harsh environment, when cutting meat and burning meat, you should cut a knife and say amitabha; Cooking, chanting amitabha, returning to them and living in the west. This is a helpless way.

7. I was born in the West.

I have always hoped that all Buddhists will give up vegetarianism. At least, believers who come to Lingyan Mountain to play the Seven Buddhas should abstain from meat after returning home. Don't eat quietly for seven days, and then go back and swallow big fish and meat. I came back here with the Buddha's light, but once I ate meat, the Buddha in my heart stinks and is bloody! Everyone should be kind-hearted, give incense to the Buddha with heart, and don't smoke the Buddha with smelly things.

Buddha is merciful and treats all sentient beings like parents and children. You eat all the flesh of all beings in your stomach, as if you had killed his parents and children. How sad the merciful Buddha is to see this killing!

All right! I only hope that everyone can be vegetarian, keep quiet and recite Buddha's mercy, so that the merits of chanting Buddha will be great. Otherwise, while you are chanting Buddha, you are so evil; No sympathy at all. Your heart of chanting Buddha doesn't correspond to Buddha's heart at all! Is there merit in chanting Buddha like this? Of course, there are various good roots first! But when will it pay off? Of course, it will be slow, because there are still bad karma. How can we feel real happiness without bad karma? If you want to be happy earlier, don't suffer, you must be a perfect good man, don't create bad karma, and the future consequences will of course be perfect and happy! Otherwise, there is still bitterness in music; This is like a rich man who is unfortunately ill, which is equivalent to being "poor and rich"!

The Buddha told us: "A man who eats meat cuts off the seeds of great compassion. Compassion is the seed of Buddha. How can a Buddhist become a Buddha while eating meat and destroying the seeds of compassion? The so-called "Buddhist precepts, Buddhist precepts, ten thousand people practice ten thousand people. "If you want to live in the West without obstacles, you must be a vegetarian and read Buddha; Being a vegetarian means holding the "no killing" precept, and killing is the most serious crime! If you just recite Buddhism and don't follow the precepts of vegetarianism, then if you encounter obstacles and can't get the West, don't complain: "I want the West, why doesn't Amitabha come to meet me?" "It's not that Amitabha didn't come to the forefront, but at the end of his life, your karma and friends came to see you, and you couldn't leave. This is karma! All the results are the rewards of everyone, so the reason is the result, and the cause and effect determine it!

I hope everyone can stop killing and releasing, be a vegetarian and read Buddha, read Amitabha with compassion and decide to live with the West in the future!