When Sakyamuni Buddha was alive, his diet was meat, and the only person in the world who studied Buddhism without eating meat was from China. Vegetarianism was initiated by Liang Wudi in China. Before Liang Wudi, Buddhism in China also ate Mitsui meat. When Liang Wudi read the Shurangama Sutra, the Buddha said, "Bodhisattva is merciful and cannot bear to eat the flesh of all beings.". Liang Wudi was so moved that he automatically became a vegetarian. He is a great protector of Buddhism. He eats vegetarian food. Of course, he will respond when he becomes a monk, and his family will respond later. This is the beginning of Buddhist vegetarianism in China.

Buddhists don't kill, and the precepts don't say no to meat. When the Buddha was alive, he was a caring person, while Buddhists were "compassionate and convenient." When they get a caregiver, it is convenience and sympathy. If you are a vegetarian, when you go to the bowl, you must ask others to cook vegetarian food for you. Isn't that a problem? Therefore, there is no difference between a Buddha and his disciples. He eats whatever he gives. At present, Thailand and Myanmar Hinayana countries are still shirking their responsibilities. This truth should be understood.

Vegetarianism is of decisive benefit to health. If the whole society advocates vegetarianism, it will be convenient for monks to go out and help others. We won't be surprised to see monks eating meat in foreign countries, but we are vegetarians and people will be surprised to see us. Because he doesn't know the history of Buddhism in China, we must explain to him why China's disciples are all vegetarians.

Enlightenment of Master Kong Jing on Edible Plants

Many people will ask, vegetables are alive, so why can we eat them? The following is an excerpt from Master Kong Jing's answer, from a Buddhist question and answer. ..

Q: The Buddha said that all things are equal, animals and plants are alive, and eating meat is tantamount to killing. But the same green vegetables are alive. If we cut them down and eat them, why not kill them?

A: Your question is very good and deep. Can people not eat? Of course. Look at Sakyamuni Buddha and eat a meal a day on earth. We read in the scripture that arhat lives in this world and eats once a week, while Buddhists eat once every half month. Speaking of the erotic world, heaven and man don't eat, and the erotic world is a meditative person. When they got their first Zen wealth, they had no food and no sleep. This is kung fu. We are called karma in this world. You must go on a diet. You can't live without food. If you can't survive, you can't get rid of the six divisions in the wheel of karma. In Sixth Avenue, you will always get revenge. This truth is very deep. I can't tell you for two weeks. If you have to eat, think about it. Do you eat people or animals? There is a choice. Do you want to eat your parents or someone else? You won't eat your parents, you will eat others. Compared with animals, you still eat animals instead of eating people; If you compare animals with plants, you should give up animals and eat plants. If you compare them layer by layer, you will know that they are different.

A plant is a creature, but it has no feelings, that is, it has no revenge, it has no resentment; When you eat animals, animals will have revenge and resentment. Attract what? If the afterlife is not satisfactory, this problem will be serious. A plant can't. It wants you to eat it when it grows up. Why? It cultivates sustenance and knows how to cultivate happiness. We grow our own vegetables in Australia. Our vegetables don't have chemical fertilizers and pesticides. They grow better than ordinary farm vegetables. We let these vegetables listen to Buddhist names and scriptures, that is, we play them on tape and take good care of them. One night, fellow initiates who managed the vegetable garden dreamed that loofah came to see him. It says the loofah is too old, so you should take it off quickly. It's very old. He was surprised and went to that place to look for it the next day. Sure enough, he found it. It is behind the leaves, but he can't see it. It's really old. What is that? I couldn't eat it, so I kept it as a seed. You see, plants, flowers and trees are all people. We treat them well and they repay us. This is their way to repay the kindness of supporting the public. You must study these things well, so that you can really understand everything about life in the universe.

Why advocate vegetarianism?

-Interpretation of Master Ji Qun

Vegetarianism is a traditional virtue of Buddhism in China for thousands of years, and it is a concrete embodiment of the compassion spirit of Mahayana Buddhism. However, in the past hundred years, people may have two different views on vegetarianism because of their broad horizons: some people think that learning Buddhism must be vegetarian, otherwise they will not be believers; On the other hand, some people think that it is not necessary to be vegetarian to learn Buddhism, and cite monks from Mongolia, Tibet, Ceylon and Thailand as evidence. Right and wrong? It is really necessary to discuss it.

In people's minds, vegetarianism is generally similar to eating vegetables and not eating meat. However, according to Buddhist precepts and the situation of the whole Buddhist community, Buddhists are not absolute vegetarians, because garlic in vegetables is not eaten; It is not absolutely opposed to meat eaters, allowing them to eat clean meat in the Hinayana precepts. As for not eating meat as usual, meat is irritating, referring to things with extremely strong smells such as onions, garlic and leeks.

According to the Hinayana precept, Buddhist monks and nuns can eat meat. For example, among the four drugs mentioned in the quartering method, there are two kinds of fish. Article 10 of the Four Commandments Book is about fish, which also shows that meat is edible. This is because monks and nuns at that time lived a life of begging, and they could only eat anything in the donor's house. Where can you choose? But there are still some restrictions, that is, if you see that the meat provided by the donor is killed for yourself; Or heard that he was killed for himself; Even those who suspect that they kill only to support themselves can't accept the spirit of compassion without killing. Because of this kind of meat, all beings were destroyed by me, which could have been avoided, but I don't know how to avoid it. This violates the rule of not killing. Therefore, Buddhism forbids eating meat, not because it is meat, but because it kills life. If it wasn't for you, the three clean meats were not forbidden in the Hinayana precepts.

China is a northern Buddhism, which mostly spreads Mahayana Sutra and promotes Mahayana thought. In the Mahayana Sutra, it is clearly declared that Buddhist disciples cannot eat meat. For example, the Shurangama Sutra says: You should not eat meat if you have endless karma. Slightly ten kinds: first, all beings have been six relatives from the beginning, so they should think of their loved ones and should not eat meat; Foxes and horses, butchers sell their reasons; Third, the growth of unclean begging spots; Fourth, all living beings are afraid of life; Fifth, make the kindness of practitioners immortal; Sixth, fools are all Xi Zhi, smelly and unclean, and have no good name; Seven, make the spell unsuccessful. Eight, eat meat to see the shape, dye the taste; Nine people, abandoned by the sky, have many nightmares, and tigers and wolves smell incense; Ten, eat all kinds of meat first, and then eat human flesh.

There are many reasons for not eating meat. There are only ten here. The Nirvana Sutra also says:

From today on, disciples are not allowed to eat meat. If you observe that a son wants to eat meat, then a meat eater will be isolated from a kind species, and those who live on land, sea and air will complain, so they will not eat.

In addition, the Brahma Bodhisattva Sutra, the Shurangama Sutra and the Central Digging Rama Sutra all oppose eating meat, because the Bodhisattva Tao is based on compassion, and eating meat is inhuman and has various faults, so you can't eat it.

From the permission of Mahayana precepts to the resolute opposition of Mahayana Sutra to eating meat, it is inseparable from the evolution of the monk group. At first, monks lived a life of begging. With the development of Buddhism, they got a lot of land and food from kings and believers. Monks went from nothing to considerable economic strength. The land of monks is cultivated by pure people, and the food is handled by pure people. In this case, naturally don't eat meat. Therefore, in the heyday of Mahayana Buddhism in India, eating meat was forbidden.

China advocated Liang Wudi monks and nuns to be vegetarian. In the twenty-sixth volume of Hong Guangming Ji, Wu Liang wrote "the article of breaking wine and meat". When the emperor saw some monks and nuns eating meat and drinking at that time, he thought it violated the Mahayana classic. He believes that the master has the responsibility to help Buddhism and appeals to monks and nuns to stop drinking and meat, otherwise they will be dealt with by national laws and monk laws. In the last years of China, the begging system of Buddhism was implemented. Since ancient times, most temples in China have owned temple property or lived a life of self-cultivation and self-cooking, which provided favorable conditions for not eating meat. If someone wants to eat meat, he must commit suicide, sell meat himself or cook the meat himself. How can he not break the rules? Stop talking about the Mahayana Sutra and don't listen to the commandments.

Some people, for their own needs, take the meat of monks and nuns in Thailand and Myanmar as an example, and suggest that monks and nuns in China might as well eat meat. This is a fallacy that ignores the truth and obeys selfish desires. As we all know, Hinayana Buddhism is popular in Thailand and other countries, and begging for food is practiced. Naturally, we can't compare with it. Another example is that Buddhists in Mongolia and Tibet are meat eaters, because Mongolia and Tibet are animal husbandry areas, and their main food cannot be separated from cattle and sheep. In this environment, it is inconvenient not to eat meat. Han people don't have this kind of thing, so we have no reason to eat meat.

5. Why should meat be banned?

Meat and fishy food is a general term for vegetables with strong smell, usually five spices or five meats. There are different opinions about the names of five spices in ancient books, but most of them are called onion, garlic, glutinous rice, glutinous rice and canal. These five kinds of dishes have strong stimulating ability, which will give off an extremely unpleasant smell after eating, which will affect the harmony of monks, so they are forbidden by the precepts.

Wuxin, in Hinayana Buddhism, only garlic is mentioned, as Article 70 of the Four Points Method says:

Job Shuni spat garlic and Boyiti. The recipe of bhikkhutujiro is Mona, Misha and Shaminitujiro, which is a crime; Those who have not committed crimes, or if they are sick, eat garlic in the cake. If other drugs can't be cured, they just need to take garlic and listen to it. If they apply sores, they don't commit crimes.

Because of the disease, unless you eat garlic, you can't cure it. The precepts only allow it. After eating garlic, in order not to affect everyone, the law made further provisions. As stated in the Law of Monks:

(garlic) Take care. For seven days, you are not allowed to lie on the monk's bed, go to the monk's toilet, enter the monk's bathroom, greenhouse, lecture hall and restaurant, be invited by the monk, even talk about Busha, and live. It's not advisable to go around the tower. jota is in an open place, keeping a respectful distance from the wind. Bathing, washing clothes and smoking on the 8th have always been popular.

In a group, if everyone eats garlic, there will be no special feeling. If only one or two people eat garlic, the smell of eating garlic is absolutely unbearable for others. Therefore, eating garlic once should be isolated from public life for seven days, and he can return to public life after taking a shower and changing clothes.

The fasting of Wuxin was put forward in the Mahayana Sutra. As Brahma said:

If you are a Buddha, you should not eat five spices: garlic, white onion, kind onion, blue onion and Xingqu. You shouldn't eat any food. If you eat too much, you are guilty of filth.

Among them, garlic was brought back to Dawan by Zhang Qian from Alakazam. Kind onions, namely onions, are called kind and soft stems and leaves. Onions, some say garlic, others say vegetables. The famous onion grows in mountains and rivers and is said to be a kind of onion. Xingqu, it is said that there is no Han Dynasty.

Five spices are different from wine, which can make people unconscious; It is also different from meat. Eating it goes against the nature of compassion. Why is it forbidden to eat in the precepts of Bodhisattva? The Shurangama Sutra says:

It is the theme that all living beings seek three themes, and when the world is five spicy. It is five kinds of food. Cooked food is delicious, and raw food increases. If you are a spicy eater in the world, you can pass on one or two classics and ten immortals. You are far away from it. Hungry ghosts and others lick their lips and kiss because of their food. Often living with ghosts, Ford sells it every day, which is not good in the long run. He is a man who eats Xin, practices Samadhi, is a bodhisattva, is an immortal, is a good god of ten sides, and does not come to protect him. He is a powerful demon king, and now he is a Buddha. This is a statement, not to break the taboo, but to praise and anger. I finally became the devil's family, was blessed by magic, and fell into prison. Ananda, a Bodhi practitioner, breaks the five spirits forever, so it is called the first step of gradual practice.

Eating five kinds of spices will increase the chances, keep good gods away, tempt the devil, violate taboos and die in hell. The Shurangama Sutra also says:

All kinds of meat and onions, garlic, etc., all kinds of wine, the practice is often far away. Diet produces escape, escape produces ill feelings, and greed produces ecstasy. Drunkenness begets love, and life and death are not free. As we all know, wine, meat, onions and garlic are obstacles to the sacred road and violate the sacred appearance, so they should not be eaten.

This equates the mistake of eating onions and garlic with drinking and eating meat, because they can not only increase love, but also hinder the holy road, so they can not be eaten.

Eating meat is killing.

Related Buddhist scriptures

Dahui! People who eat meat are like waiting for infinite mistakes, breaking without eating and gaining great merits. Fools don't know such gains and losses, so I'll play for you today. Anyone who eats meat should know not to eat meat. Dahui! Anyone who kills people is mostly eaten by others. People don't kill if they don't eat, so eating meat is the same crime as killing. -Mahayana into the Shurangama Sutra

Dahui! If everyone doesn't eat meat and no one kills, everyone will eat meat. If there is no food to buy everywhere, killing people for profit and selling them, killing people for buyers, then buyers are no different from killing people. Therefore, eating meat will hinder the holy way. That's why I say eating meat is a sin, so I don't listen to food. -Mahayana into the Shurangama Sutra

Pure bhikkhu bodhisattva, walking in the Tao, not stepping on grass, how can he lead? What is the great compassion of the cloud, taking all living things and congestion of meat? -Mahayana into the Shurangama Sutra

Good people! I told the public that it is useless to eat the meat of all beings. If you eat meat, there is no pity; People who have no pity are not my disciples, and I am not another teacher. -"yoga mirror sutra for criminals"

Ananda! And this world, six sentient beings, if their hearts are not killed, they will not continue their life and death. If you practice samadhi, you will have to work hard to kill your heart and the dust will not come out. No matter how smart you are, if you keep killing before meditation, you will fall into the path of God. People with top grades are terrible ghosts. Mid-range products include Yaksa, Handsome Ghost, etc. Present person, Luo Cha. There are many ghosts and gods and many disciples, and everyone claims to be supreme. After my death, in the last law, many ghosts and gods flourished in the world. I said that I ate meat and got Bodhi Road. -The first Shurangama Sutra

Ananda! I told monks to eat five kinds of clean meat. This meat is my special function and has no source of life. If you are a Brahmin, the land will be steamed wet. If you add sand and stones, grass and vegetables will not grow. I was endowed with great compassion and divine power. Because of great compassion, I took a pseudonym as my flesh, and you got its flavor. How can the Tathagata eat the flesh of all beings after extinction and become a famous son? You should know! Is a carnivore, longitudinal heart open, hi samadhi, Luo Cha. Your report will eventually sink, and life and death will suffer, not a Buddhist disciple. If so, they will kill each other and eat each other. What is a cloud and what is the Three Realms? You teach the world, practice samadhi, and kill life every time. Is the name Tathagata, Buddha first, second decision, pure Zoroastrianism. -The first Shurangama Sutra

For beginners, you can let them eat three refined meats first, and then say to him, "Eating meat is equivalent to killing people!" " "

The Shurangama Sutra says: "People who eat meat die of heresy and suffer." Evil ways refer to hell, hunger and beast. Therefore, we know that a person who eats meat will one day not be reincarnated as a human being.

Let's take a look at the words of the Eight Fingers Zen Master-"The fish in the pond suddenly cried like human language, and the guest said that he talked to you. I used to be a rich man, and you used to treat me to fish. Now I'll feed you fish. " It shows that people who eat meat will fall into hell and hunger, and they have to be reincarnated into various animals to pay off their flesh and blood debts.

If you don't kill yourself, can you buy something killed by others?

Life is full of disappointment, which everyone can understand. What are the reasons for these disappointments? Few people explore!

The Shurangama Sutra says: "People who eat meat seek merit and know whether merit is achieved. 」

"Hua Yan Jing" says: "Forgetting bodhicitta and practicing Buddhism is a famous magic industry. 」

Animals and we are both flesh and blood. Because of our purchase, someone will help us kill them. This kind of indirect killing with a knife prevents us from seeking the merits we want, which leads to family insecurity, unhealthy health, unfilial children and unsatisfactory career. And all kinds of disappointments. On the other hand, eating meat will also cause great obstacles to learning Buddhism.

The Book of Entering Lengga says: "The husband's flesh and blood are abandoned by the immortals, but the saints don't eat." ... the husband's meat is far away from the sky, and his breath often stinks ... The meat is not beautiful and unclean, which leads to a terrible crime and is abandoned by immortals and saints! 」

The Shurangama Sutra also said: "People who eat meat are far away from the sky, and all beings are afraid! Therefore, a person who eats meat can't get the protection of Tianlong Babu, so it is difficult for him to achieve anything in his career, and the unsatisfactory things in his life naturally increase!

Is Sanjin meat edible?

As mentioned earlier, the result of killing animals and eating meat, of course, includes "three no meat". In order to give you a specific understanding, let's trace the origin of the three refined meats from the classics!

In the Nirvana Sutra, Gaya asked the Buddha, "Why did you listen to three kinds of clean meat or even nine kinds of clean meat first?" Buddha said: "This is because things are done step by step. When you know it, you break the meat." In terms of hearing and hearing, before the Buddha's nirvana, he was allowed to eat three kinds of clean meat, and after the Buddha's nirvana, all meat could not be eaten. As far as Bodhisattva is concerned, all the meat before and after the Buddha's nirvana is inedible.

Since Sakyamuni Buddha has been in nirvana for more than two thousand years, what reason is there to allow his disciples to eat three golden meats? A passage in the Shurangama Sutra can strongly prove this point. The Buddha said, "In the future, there will be fools who talk nonsense about Ni (commandments). They will slander me, talk about eating meat and eat meat themselves." He said, "Great wisdom! I have said in many places that people who cover ten kinds and make three kinds are gradually banned from learning. This situation is that when the Buddha was still alive, in order to attract all beings, he adopted a "step by step" approach to let all beings practice Buddhism. When he was about to leave this world of concubines, he explained the three lean meats very clearly. He said: "in this sutra, if you commit suicide, the meat eater will break everything." Tell the disciples who study Buddhism that "whoever eats meat will know everything."

If someone still doesn't understand the will of the Buddha and says that Sanjin meat can be eaten, what kind of cause and effect will he recite? Buddha said: "If an idiot comes and people eat meat, you should know that it is a person and bad karma will haunt you forever.". Therefore, not only can we not eat Sanjin meat ourselves, but we should also tell others that Sanjin meat can't be eaten.

Can I have meat side dishes?

Since all meat can't be eaten, how about eating meat side dishes instead of meat in social activities?

Nirvana sutra Nezha asked the Buddha, "If you beg for food, you will get mixed meat. How can you get food? " It should be clean. The Buddha said, "Wash it with water to distinguish it from meat, and then eat it. 」

From this passage, we can see that meat side dishes need to be separated from vegetables and then cleaned before they can be eaten. But this is when monks beg for food. In the objective environment, there is no way to change it.

In the last paragraph of the Shurangama Sutra, there are reasons why we should be vegetarian. The following simple excerpts are for the reference of former sages.

1. Lenga Sutra:

"All beings, from the beginning, have a business, taste six relatives, think about their relatives, and don't eat meat."

"Therefore, a yogi, who is kind-hearted, does not eat meat and eats meat without compassion, is always free."

2. The precepts of Brahma Sutra Bodhisattva:

"If the Buddha, then meat, all meat is not allowed to eat. Cut off the seeds of compassion, and all beings will give up when they see it. Therefore, it is forbidden for all bodhisattvas to eat the flesh of all sentient beings. Eating meat is an infinite sin. If you eat too much, you will commit the crime of light scale. "

3. Shurangama Sutra:

"Love and greed are the same. If greed can't stop, all the worlds will become wet and they will be swallowed up by power. People will eat sheep, sheep will die like people, people will die like sheep, and so on. They will live and die, and they will be born with each other. When they are poor in the future, they will live and die forever. "

"Ananda. There are six sentient beings in the world. If they don't kill their hearts, they will not live and die with them. If you practice samadhi, you will have to work hard. If you kill your heart, you cannot leave the dust. No matter how smart you are, you will meditate before you appear. If you continue to kill, you will fall into the path of God. People with top grades are terrible ghosts. The intermediate products are flying night * ghosts and handsome boys. The inferior goods should be Luo Cha. There are disciples in other ghosts and gods. It is said that every one is supreme. There are many ghosts and gods in The Last Law of My Extinction, who make waves in the world, claiming that eating meat leads to Bodhi Road. Ananda. I let monks eat five kinds of clean meat. This meat is my special function and has no source of life. Rubrahman, the land is wet and wet. If you add sand and gravel, grass and vegetables will not grow. I was endowed with the power of great compassion, and because of its pseudonym, you got its flavor. But after the Tathagata dies, eating the flesh of all beings is called releasing the child. You should know. He is a meat eater, and he is as happy as samadhi. He's all in Luo Cha, and he's bound to die. He is not a Buddhist disciple. If so, people will kill each other and eat each other. They won't eat each other. What is the cloud leading to the Three Realms? You teach the world samadhi, and you kill every time. It is the first Buddha of Buddha, and the second decision is purity and brightness. This is because of Ananda. If you keep killing meditators, such as someone blocking their ears, shouting and asking others not to listen, this is called hiding and revealing. Clean the monks and bodhisattvas, go against the Tao, don't plant grass, pull it out by hand. What is the great compassion of the cloud? It feeds on the flesh and blood of all beings. If monks refuse to accept oriental silk and silk, and this pair of earth boots is covered with fur and cheese. If he is a monk, Yu Shizhen will take off, pay his debts and not go to the Three Realms. Why? Serving his identity concerns his fate. If people eat hundreds of valleys on their land, they will never leave the ground. It is necessary to make the body and mind, if the identity of all beings, body and mind are drawn, they refuse to eat. I said that the people are the real liberators. As I said, this is called Buddha's theory. Don't say that, that's what Papman said.