To share with you about vegetarianism, although we may not be able to see the changes in our body with the naked eye, but the instrument can be seen. And we share: this time our store came to a microcirculation testing equipment, all of our colleagues are tested, through the microscope to see their bodies have heavy metals and toxins, and blood is more viscous, blood vessels blocked more, to my test when I said that my body is more cold, more weak, but the body does not have heavy metals, toxins are not much, the teacher asked me if I am a vegetarian, because the blood of the vegetarians is The teacher asked me if I was a vegetarian, because vegetarian blood is cleaner, and the difference was so great that the teacher gave them the advice to eat more vegetarian food. So sometimes we may not feel, but vegetarianism is indeed a better body, so not yet eat vegetarian brother hurry to eat more vegetarian, the body will be more and more good.
There are also conditions for vegetarianism, and it is not enough to eat vegetarian dishes such as bok choy and tofu alone. The bodhisattva told us to protect our flesh, so that we are on earth is practicing, not so that you do not kill and eat vegetarian to eat your body bad. So the bodhisattva has great compassion and agrees that we should eat eggs, milk and dairy products, because many of the eggs are not able to hatch chicks, and there are a lot of nutrients in them, so that your body will slowly be balanced. The main thing is to eat more soy products, there are proteins in it, there are soy lecithin, you have to eat more, let's say vegetarian chicken, soybeans, peanut rice ...... Many people eat a very single, every day, green vegetables and carrots, the oil and water are scraped. You can go to a vegetarian store like Taiwan to buy vegetarian ham, vegetarian duck, their own seasoning sliced, and vegetarian dishes burned together, cooking is also very important, you can think of a variety of ways to burn, to bake, to fry, or wrapped in spring rolls ...... vegetarian people have to constantly think of patterns to eat, otherwise too single, the body of the long time will be seriously collapsed. Monks and nuns they do not do labor on knocking wooden fish chanting sutra sweeping the floor, do not need a lot of energy, so eat eat tofu green vegetables does not matter. We have to work and go to work. Because there are many people who eat vegetarian, nutritional balance every day to eat some peanuts and rice, grains, beans, walnuts, and chestnuts, these are very nutritious.
Vegetarianism--Cultivate compassion
The stage manager continues to talk to you today, we learn Buddhism, why we should be vegetarian, why we should not kill? In fact, the Bodhisattva told us long ago that all sentient beings possess the Buddha nature. What do we mean by sentient beings? All sentient beings with life have Buddha nature. For example, if our ancestors, or our juniors, have committed sins, and when they pass away, they have been reincarnated as animals, and at that time, if he is a dog, and he is in your house, and if you kill the dog, in fact, you are killing a sentient being. Moreover, the Bodhisattva says that all sentient beings possess the Buddha nature, and that they should all be treated as Buddhas. What does it mean to treat them all as Buddhas? It means to see everything as a Bodhisattva, because a Bodhisattva sees all beings as Buddhas. We say that the Buddha is all sentient beings, and all sentient beings are Buddhas. Therefore, we already have the foundation for Buddhahood, we may have been Buddhas in the past, we may be Buddhas in the future, and we may become Buddhas in the future, I am a Buddha already, you are an un-buddha, and if you can believe in this way, the precepts have been fulfilled. In other words, I may already be a Buddha, or I may have been a Buddha in the past, and you may be a Buddha in the future, just as we call many people "little Bodhisattvas" nowadays. If you can believe in this way, we all believe that we will definitely be able to become Buddhas, and that your precepts are already fulfilled. If you can respect all sentient beings, if you regard all sentient beings as Buddhas, your boundary and your qualities are already sufficient, which means you can already believe that you are the Buddha of the Unknown.
So, we have to abstain from killing, ah. We cannot kill because we have to kill, because we have to kill wild animals, we have to kill animals, and fight with them, in order to kill people's bodies, in order to use them to please my mouth's happiness as well. You kill people and eat them yourself, put some soy sauce, put some vinegar, and you still think it's something very delicious, but actually, how cruel it is. As you know, there is a store in Guangdong that eats monkeys. Monkeys are just like human beings, one by one, little monkeys are locked up in little cages, and when those little monkeys see a person coming in, they all put their hands over their eyes, because the brutal killing starts right away, and when they dip this little cage into the water, the little monkeys die, and when these little monkeys see that their fellow monkeys are being killed in such a way, there is nothing they can do about it, so they can only cover their eyes. Cover them up. Just like the Japanese killing the Chinese in the past, we saw them killing our compatriots from the sidelines, what can we do? We have to realize that killing is a great sin, and those who kill will go to hell. People in the world have become accustomed to killing, do you know how many people are killing? Do you know how many chickens and ducks are killed every day? In just this small place of Hong Kong, 10 million chickens are killed every day. Think about it, killing is such a sin. And now we casually kill chickens and ducks, dogs and rabbits, and we don't take it seriously at all, and we have to eat it, how can we eat it?
We are accustomed to many things, like cursing, we are accustomed to killing, so we have to understand that we can not kill ah. Including sacrificing to gods and ancestors, raising relatives and treating guests, without meat can not be a gift, these are the ideas of the past, that there is meat to have this gift, no meat can not be this gift, think about it, to raise relatives and treating guests, thinking that sacrificing to the gods and ancestors all have to use meat, using people's lives in exchange for your offerings, which is also extremely tragic thing. Killing people's flesh to show that you are sincere in your filial piety, and your parents are not willing to accept this, killing people's spirituality to honor themselves. After many people kill living beings, he becomes dissociated and his life becomes more and more miserable, just like a person who kills pigs, his family will not be rich in this life, his life is miserable, and his emotional luck is getting worse and worse. Think about it, some sentient beings, reincarnated in the six paths since the beginning of time, may be our parents, brothers, wives, dependents; think about it, in the past, they were all your own relatives, and if they are reincarnated in the animal path, you are still retaliating cyclically, in killing precepts. The Bodhisattva has advised us in the scriptures to abstain from killing, ah. We have to understand that we can't kill living beings because we have to have compassion, and we can cultivate compassion so that we can abstain from killing living beings, ah, and there are even fewer people who believe in practicing it. So we have to learn the Buddha's great compassion, we can't take other people's bodies to feed others and to feed ourselves, it's sinful.
Listeners, we all know that the Buddha's great compassion is to manifest everything, not only to people, the Buddha and Bodhisattva are to all living beings, so we have to refrain from killing living beings, some of the small creatures we can't kill ah, like shells ah, clams and oysters ah, pig's teeth, tripe, cow's liver, etc., all these things are so that people will be disturbed when they eat it, because these things are eaten into your body, because you are putting the things of the animal path into the human path. In fact, your heart will be tainted with those factors of the animal, the reason is so simple, how many people understand it? For example, I was originally a good person, but after my mind has been filled with the theory of the rascal and the robber, I am no longer like a human being, you are like a rascal, like a robber, and your theory has caused you to forget that you are a human being. So, understand that we don't understand that we don't know, that's in the past, we understand now, we understand, we are enlightened, we can't kill any more, we can't even kill the animals and eat them. You have to think that when you kill an animal, it also hurts, it has feelings, it just doesn't speak.
Some people say that the ones that can't speak were born for me to eat. Do you have a brother in your family who is mute and you should kill him too? Eat him? These are absurd arguments. The stage manager told everyone that it is resolutely impossible to kill living beings, ah, you have to know that although human beings and animals have different shapes, and their souls and consciousnesses are different, their pains are the same, and they are all living beings, ah, just like a small child who doesn't know how to do something, and a grown-up who does know how to do something, they are also human beings, and you can't regard them as alien beings, ah. Therefore, every animal, including human beings, which are advanced animals, have the sensitivity of spiritual beings, that is to say, the objects that have spirits, they have intelligence, and they have understanding. When we talk about the Five Luns and Eight Virtues, we are not allowing people to kill, steal, lust, delude, or drink, and what we are talking about, we are not allowing people to mutilate others, nor to mutilate themselves. What we are talking about is to get along with each other in good faith, and we have to love and care for animals and people. Therefore, killing and eating their flesh, that is to say, eating the flesh of those animals yourself after you have killed them, will bring you retribution. Think about it, in Chinese history, there were many, many people who received karma for killing. In history, there were many people who killed people and ended up having no good karma for themselves. Think about Libyan President Gaddafi, he killed countless people and he ended up being killed, what good result did he have? Since ancient times, those who kill people will kill themselves.
We have to learn from the saints point of view, we can not take advantage of people, we can not use animals to feed their own bodies ah. We must know that he who harms people, ah, and creatures, his descendants must be mediocre and extinct, ah, that is to say, if an ancestor does not accumulate virtues, it will surely spread to his next generation; if an ancestor lacks virtues, it will surely spread to his next generation as well. There is a listener in the station manager's office whose ancestor had killing karma, and all of his children are mentally ill. Therefore, we must understand that "the surplus of celebration and calamity is also the surplus of celebration and calamity," that is to say, if you have a little bit of calamity or a little bit of happiness now, it is because you did a little bit of good deeds in your past life, and you did a lot of bad deeds in your past life. The person who has accumulated good deeds and virtues, he has already suffered in the next life and the next life, which is much better than the people we still don't understand now. Therefore, we as parents have to think about our children, and we must not do a lot of harmful things, because if you do harmful things, you will affect the growth of your next generation. For example, we now have many people in Australia who do not take care of their bodies. Many ladies drink and smoke when they are pregnant, and they end up giving birth to a disabled child, and when the child arrives on earth, he suffers, isn't it because his mother has caused him to do so? The child came to the human world, suffered so much, in the school was looked down upon by others, reading, people learn, he could not learn, look like half of the face big, half of the face is small, the words out of the mouth, we know that the brain has a problem, you bring the child a lifetime of pain, this is what you do ah.
So, people should know ah, we must break the moment. A lot of people feel very happy when they get something in their mouth, but he can't understand that he will suffer from great evils forever, and he will suffer from these great evils forever, and it will be passed on to his descendants. Listeners, it has now been medically proven that a person who is a vegetarian will have a peaceful state of mind, a person who is a vegetarian will be as beautiful as a flower or a plant, a person who is a vegetarian will grow taller and taller like the ears of a rice plant, but his head will hang lower and lower and lower, and he will be humble and prudent. Let's think about it. Carnivores have sharp teeth, but we humans are not carnivores, we have long, long intestines, as you know from a little bit of knowledge, human intestines are very long, which is good for digestion, but the intestines of carnivores are very short, like tigers, lions, etc. So, carnivores, when the meat is eaten in, it is excreted very quickly, whereas a human being eats the meat and goes around and around and around in the intestine, always in the inside. Think about it, if you don't put the meat in the refrigerator, it will stink in a few hours, and although we desperately cook it before we eat it, it's still meat, after all, after half a day in your stomach, it still can't be turned out, it can't be absorbed, and after a long period of time, how can it not be grown in the intestines? So understand ah, we can not eat meat, and even more so, can not eat live. Doctors have long advised us, as we grow older, to eat more vegetarian ah, more vegetarian is good for health.
Today, I've said so much to my friends and listeners, and I hope that you will develop a sense of compassion. The first thing I'd like to say is that I don't want to be a part of it, but I'd like to be a part of it. Guangdong Foshan a little girl, only two years old, was run over by the car over and over, the side of more than 10 people, none of them to save each other, only a pick up garbage aunt went to save her, but also took out their own pick up garbage 24,000 yuan, donated to her. Aren't people nowadays upside down? What are rich people doing? For the sake of money, for the sake of fame, for the sake of profit, they do hurtful things all day long, they bully people all day long, they are selfish all day long, and in order to achieve the purpose of making money, they do not hesitate to harm people's interests. And those scavengers, those old mothers, their conscience still exists, and that's why those who have cultivated in their past lives have blessings in this life, and those who have blessings in this life, who don't cultivate in this life, by the time he's in his next life, he doesn't have blessings again. Therefore, he who suffers, he will cultivate his mind; he who suffers, he will know how to cherish happiness. He who does not suffer a little cannot attain happiness. As if a child is born in a rich family, money is just a numerical concept to him, this child, will he cherish money? And why the poor child can become a family early, because he knows, money is not easy to come ah.