About food support: (from the Internet)
We need to pay attention to the diet of monks. Buddhist monks live by living, begging every day and eating collectively; But the Buddha still accepted the offer, which is an excellent opportunity for the laity to accumulate blessings. Sometimes, out of season. Let's talk about seasonal food, that is, staple food, usually after sunrise and before noon, especially when eating staple food. The rest of the time is out of place. There are five kinds of seasonal foods: rice, cakes, cakes, meat and fish. Of course, it can also be: roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. Then these foods can be eaten in time. Buddha's attitude towards food is called medicine. It is necessary to maintain the physical body, and it has the same significance as the patient's need to take medicine, so as to embody the fundamental spirit of abstinence: to want less is to be ashamed. In terms of staple food, although the Buddha did not become a monk, he was not allowed to eat meat. But avoid human flesh, human blood, elephants, horses, dogs, snakes, lions, tigers, bears, leopards and other animal meats. Pork, cattle, sheep and other meats, as well as all foods and vegetarians, are allowed to eat. As laymen, when we want to provide food for monks, we must be clear that meat must be three clean meats. There is no need to kill, there is no smell of killing, and there is no doubt that killing is for yourself. Then the dead animal carcasses can still be eaten. When we support monks, we usually make them first and then give them. Never ask a monk what he wants to eat. If it is for a sick monk, then this is allowed. Monks can also make some demands (many monks who strictly abide by the precepts are seriously ill, but they are not illegal), but generally speaking, monks will not specify requirements. Many laity people are very worried that they may buy fresh live animals and kill them to make food for monks. Then when you support, if you don't say anything and don't let the monk know, then there is nothing wrong with the monk eating it, because the monk doesn't know that it was killed for them. But if you tell a monk that he has eyes and a heart, he will never eat it. Therefore, if laymen are willing to cook food for monks, they still need to pay attention to the use of Sanjin meat. Chinese Buddhism advocates vegetarianism, so you won't encounter such problems. But there are no related commandments in the commandments, so they can only be advocated, not regarded as commandments. Besides, if a monk goes home, he should repent. We have to support the fruits of our families, so monks will ask: Kappiyam karohi? Have you cleaned it? ) We should answer immediately: Kappiyam Bhante (cleaned). Then, cut one of them with a knife, or clamp one of them with your nails. So the monks can eat. Then, about eating out of season, listening to drinking when eating out of season. Mainly fruit pulp, beat the fruit into pulp, filter the residue with a cloth, and then dilute it with water. Don't cook it, don't be too thick, and don't stay overnight. The above are some suggestions about seasonal food and non-seasonal food for your reference. In addition, don't provide monks with too many staple foods at a time. It is best to provide them at eight or nine o'clock in the morning, so that even if there are leftovers, there will be enough time for monks to take them back to other monks. Because once it's past noon, you can't eat it in time, nor can you eat it overnight. This needs attention. In addition, different factions have different views on overtime drinks, and they can prepare them for monks as appropriate. It can be used for more than one day. But if it is put on hold for more than seven days, the remaining drinks can be given again. Here is a concept of seven-day diet, also called seven-day medicine, which can be taken out regularly, such as crisp, raw crisp, oil, honey, sugarcane pulp and so on. However, storage should not last for seven days. Therefore, once put on hold for more than seven days, we can support the monks again. Besides, when offering food, you should present it to the venerable person in person, instead of letting the venerable person take it for himself. Because monks don't use other people's things at will, we should show that if we give things to monks, they will eat them. Therefore, it is impossible for some lay people to cook and wait for monks to beg for food every day. Because unless a monk is ill, he won't come to you for help every day. Therefore, it is suggested that you can invite the monk group yourself first to show your willingness to provide support every day. Besides, don't tell the recipe. Just say, invite the monk to confess somewhere Then the monks will consider it according to the law. Or you can prepare food every day, and the only way to beg in a bhikkhu every day is to put the food in a bhikkhu's bowl, which will be better. The above is giving and dedication. If you invite monks to confess in your own home, then generally don't invite more than three monks to confess in your own home at the same time. We can tell the monks according to our own ability how many monks will come to our house to repent on a certain day. Otherwise, more than four monks would not come to their house to confess at will. This is to remind the layman to be at home. Don't misunderstand becoming a monk because you don't know the commandments.