Amazing similarity There is a Wang in Shanghai who likes turtle meat very much, but his eating method is different from others. When ordinary people kill turtles, they cut off their heads with one knife, and the turtles died in a short painful struggle, which is already cruel to us. But Wang doesn't seem to know that animals, like people, have nerves, awareness, pain and warmth. How did he kill the poor turtle? He made a wooden lid, opened a round hole in the center of the lid, put the turtle in a pot full of water, then covered it with a wooden lid and cooked it on the fire. The water in the pot is boiling gradually, and the turtle sticks his head out of the round hole because of the unbearable heat. At this time, he pours the soup already prepared into the turtle's mouth, and the stimulation of oil, salt, sauce and vinegar makes the turtle shrink his head into the pot. His intention is to let all kinds of flavors seep into the turtle through boiling water. But did he ever think that the turtle was suffering from the pain of boiling outside and steaming inside, and the heat was heartburn? The turtle struggled painfully in boiling water. Soon, due to the suffering of boiling water, the turtle had no way to escape and survive, so he stuck his head out of the wooden hole to relieve the heat. The cruel Wang poured soup into his mouth again, and the turtle shrank his head into the pot in desperation ... So it was repeated, and finally, the turtle died in severe pain. Driven by greed, it is conceivable to kill creatures. Just ten days after Wang ate turtle meat for the last time, he slept on the second floor of his house at night, and suddenly there was a fire downstairs. The fire burned the wooden stairs, burned into the bedroom, and burned the quilt. He woke up from a deep sleep and panicked. I want to go downstairs to escape. However, the stairs have burned out, and there is a sea of fire below, so it is impossible to go down. He tried to escape from the window, and the gap between the bars was too narrow, so he couldn't get out by all means. In a panic, he struggled to get his head out, but he couldn't get out anyway, and his head was stuck between the bars, so he couldn't get up and down. When the roaring fire truck arrived, looking at the raging fire, the firefighters were helpless. The fire spread relentlessly, and Wang, who was burned to death with his head stuck, shouted for help with his mouth open. The water gun in the fireman's hand kept spraying water at the window. Like a turtle in a boiling water pot, he stuck his head out of the window and kept swallowing water. At this time, he may really feel the pain of the turtle. In this way, Wang was finally buried in the sea of fire. Wang is exactly the same as the death of the turtle he killed, and the cause and effect are true. To harm others with nausea is to harm oneself. It is Wang himself who sent himself into the "boiling pot". As the saying goes in the Classic of French Sentences: "It's cool for a demon to see a blessing, but its evil is not ripe, and it's cool to suffer from it when it's ripe." It is really chilling for Wang to feel the quick results, and his place after death is even more unimaginable. What will happen to those who kill other things? People who like to kill things think carefully.
Killing and releasing
We China people have the word morality in Chinese characters, and many people have to talk about it countless times all their lives, but; Do you know anything about morality? "Tao" refers to the harmony of all things in the world. * * * Existence is the Tao, and ten thousand books are homologous. "Virtue" means "virtue" while the traveler is "virtue". The world has pains, troubles, pains and disasters, and often complains that I am a moral person and a good person. Why is God unfair? What good people don't get what they deserve? Excuse me, really? Think about it yourself. We humans and different animals live in the same space "Earth". Did you kill anything? Did you destroy their living environment? Did you do something that harmed their self-interest? If you did, put yourself in the other's shoes. What would you do if it were you? Is it right to get what you deserve? If there is no killing, we must find the reason from other aspects. <; < Tao Te Ching > > The cloud "there is no door to misfortune and happiness, and only people recruit themselves"! There is no disaster without reason, and there is no blessing without reason. Here I want to put forward some opinions on killing and releasing.
We understand that killing is part of the root cause of the disaster, so let's all think about one more question; We are all born, and we have been praying for our life to make a difference in a limited time since our parents' generation. When we are helpless, sick, troubled, miserable and in disaster, some people will pray for the sages of advanced space such as Buddha, Bodhisattva, gods and immortals to help us and save us. Of course, the sincerity will get help or reduce the crime. But if we are in trouble with different animals and are going to be killed, should we save them? Is it helpful if we save these different animals?
My vegetarian diet is related to a fish and a chicken.
That year, I finally had a place to cook by myself, and I could bid farewell to the days when I cooked delicious and nutritious dishes in the canteen. After I prepared the utensils such as pots and bowls, I went to the market to sell fish. The protein of fish was high, and I heard that buying live fish was more nutritious. I chose a fish and asked the seller to kill it, scale it and cut it into several pieces (alas, the reason why I peddled it was that I couldn't do it).
I had to take a bus for five stops before I could go home. I got on the bus with bloody fish in a plastic bag. Strangely, the fish kept moving. I knew it was not an illusion. It was jumping in the bag in my hand. It was already dead. I was vaguely afraid. Finally, I arrived. I boiled the water. I put the fish under the hose and washed it. I was afraid to hold it with my hand. I took a chopstick to hold it fast. I saw a fish piece moving on the board.
From then on, I stopped killing fish and eating fish. If my colleagues or friends wanted to eat it, I tried my best to discourage them. I really couldn't persuade them not to buy live fish. I decided not to eat it myself. I stopped eating fish, so I bought chicken instead. I went to the market and chose a black-bone chicken. I sold the main chicken, plucked the hair, pulled out the internal organs and left a whole chicken, so that I could wash it and use it when I got home. I had already prepared Codonopsis pilosula and Astragalus membranaceus, and I was going to stew it in the whole chicken's stomach, expecting a very fragrant and beautiful chicken soup. After stewing for 2 hours, I didn't smell the fragrance. When I opened it, it was a chicken's. It's all a dead animal. I can't swallow it at all.
These two experiences ended my history of buying and killing animals, and I have been vegetarian since then. I was once teased for forbidding my classmates to kill cockroaches, and I was once inferred by a friend who studied Buddhism because of my vegetarian diet: Your life path is very narrow.
The Tao is different from the plan. Although my friend who studied Buddhism studied Buddhism, he succumbed to interpersonal relationships and secularism and continued to kill and eat animals. How spacious can his road be? The law of cause and effect will not let anyone go, who can laugh at the end?
Killing the world newspaper
Since the beginning, we don't know which sins have been created in which Tao, and perhaps the infinite sins have not yet been reported. If we have been carnivores such as tigers and wolves, the killing industry will be even heavier. Only buddhas and bodhisattvas know which to report first and which to report later. We also need to know that evil not only suffers in hell after death, but also has great consequences when we are alive. If we carefully observe this causal example, we can see it everywhere in our lives. Here are some real examples of killing things:
On February 5, 2005, He Chaofu of Wuhong Village, Jiachuan Town, wangcang county City, Guangyuan City wanted to eat game, and invited Zhang Xiaojun to go hunting in the mountains with his brother-in-law Zhang Kai. When looking for prey separately, Zhang Xiaojun saw a pair of green eyes staring at him in the dense forest below the mountain, so he pulled the trigger of the gunpowder gun and only heard a bang. The "prey" fell to the ground and ran to see it, but He Chaofu fell down.
Tianjin Evening News once reported that a foreign couple with a two-year-old child was engaged in fried chicken trading, and the business was still prosperous. In the winter of that year, after the father fried dozens of chickens that had just been slaughtered, he put the hot oil pan down on the ground behind him and turned to use wet coal to suppress the fire. Unexpectedly, the child wearing crotch cotton trousers walked behind his father and hugged his father's leg and asked him to hug him. Without looking back, the father broke the child's hand and gently pushed it back, saying "Go and play". Maybe he forgot to put the hot oil pan on the ground, and then he heard the child scream. Sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, I found that the child's entire buttocks and genitals were all burnt. Although he can save his life, he can be disabled for life. The frying of one's own child is the worldly flower report of the couple frying all beings, and the more painful hell result is yet to come, but for the child himself, it is the inspiration of the same evil cause in the past, which is the truth of "peer feeling". Some people say that this is caused by carelessness, but it is not. When a person's criminal career is increasing every day, one day, "when the water is full, it will overflow".
There is a female layman who has been a vegetarian for a long time. She moved to Australia a few years ago and called me last year. She said that she had a bloody collapse and couldn't stop taking medicine. I didn't know what to do. My first feeling was that she had broken the precepts. Ask her if she has done any work related to killing chickens again? She was surprised and said that she worked as a cashier in a Chinese-run supermarket, and the boss was kind to her. In order to make her earn more money, an electric oven was added beside the cashier's desk, so that she could use the time when she didn't collect money to put seasoning packets into the chicken's stomach from the place where her anus was cut off, and then send them to the oven for baking. She asked, is this a breach of precepts? I asked her, "If a group of people rob a bank and temporarily hire me to keep watch for them, do you think the police will arrest me if they solve the case?" Those who kill themselves are as guilty as those who do auxiliary work. You are a Buddhist disciple who has repented and been forbidden to sin. You have lived in this life, but now you are building karma. Although it is an auxiliary job, after all, you use it to increase your income, which is not a proper job. Although the matter is small, it is the biggest sin for you. It should be a good thing to be rewarded as soon as you start a business. If you repent, you will never do this kind of work again, and you will get better. " She understood, and the blood stopped flowing that day. There are too many examples of this kind of "retribution".
About 1990, in the Evening News, I saw a report like this:
An old farmer from a village in Hebei Province invited a car from the slaughterhouse to watch the cattle bargain face to face. He wants to sell the old ox who has helped his family do farm work all his life. He led the cow out of his own gate. When he handed the reins to the buyer, the ox seemed to understand his destination. He looked back at his master and the stranger who led him. Suddenly, he shouted at his master with a "moo" and bowed his head and tried to push the old farmer with his horns. At such a close distance, the old farmer didn't even have a chance to hide. A horn of the cow penetrated his chest and pressed against the earth wall. If the people around you hadn't pulled back by the reins, I'm afraid the wall would have been knocked down by the crazy old cow. Say the cow is crazy, but it's not. The cow that was dragged back shook off the body on the horn, but stood still, its nose wheezing with air, and its two red eyes stared at the dead owner. It didn't hurt anyone. Cattle can't get rid of the fate of being killed after all, but this story has strengthened my mind, and readers will realize the truth. Animals are different from people in shape and can't speak human words, but their nature of being fond of life and dying is the same as people!
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There is a smart and beautiful girl in a city in Guangdong who studied for a master's degree in the United States and got a full scholarship, but she had to go back to China because of lupus erythematosus. However, domestic hospitals are also helpless. I cried when I saw her. I just told her to eat a vegetarian diet, to kneel down in front of the Buddha for the animals she had eaten, to understand the pain of animals being killed, and to confess the sin of losing her temper with her parents. Two months later, when I saw her again, I had recovered and was ready to go back to school in the United States. About half a year later, I received a photo she sent me, wearing a master's suit and holding flowers. The letter said that she had fully recovered and was going to get another master's degree in other disciplines. I was really happy for her. I really hope that all people can read the Tibetan Scripture, which is an incredible classic!
The Book of Rites says,' The son of heaven doesn't kill cows without reason, doctors don't kill sheep without reason, and scholars don't kill dogs without reason.' Mencius said,' Seventy people can eat meat.' Because saints cherish life and refuse to kill things at will, even if they sometimes kill animals for sacrifices, banquets and raising relatives, they would do such a thing as a last resort, not to teach people to succumb to the supply in the morning and evening and satisfy their appetite, but to kill things every day. Tai Shang is merciful. It has been said earlier that insects and plants should not be harmed. Now, in order to tell ordinary people, we have to lower the level and show the word "indecent assault". This means that people are strictly regulated and cannot go beyond this range. This is the intention of saints.
The shurangama sutra says:' If all people don't eat meat, no one will kill all beings.' If people nowadays can't completely cut off meat, they can gradually get rid of their killing heart for the time being, and learn from the previous prohibitions of not eating four kinds of meat: first, don't eat when they see animals being killed; Second, don't eat when you hear the sound of animals being killed; Third, kill for me, not eat; Fourth, don't eat what you raise. Abide by these four prohibitions, so that the normal diet can not be affected, but for all beings, it can be said that there is no intention to kill them. As for cows and dogs, they have made contributions to human beings, and they should abstain from slaughtering their meat. If this can be done, then the situation of indecent cooking and slaughter may be reduced.
Dalian New Business Daily, May 29 (Reporter Chen Jinghua) Recently, a mutton soup restaurant with a prosperous business in Malan Village suddenly closed its doors, which puzzled many regular customers. The reporter learned through insiders that not long ago, a touching scene of where will you go, a goat mother and son, was staged here, which made the owner of the mutton soup restaurant uneasy. Finally, he decided to close the mutton soup restaurant and stop working in this industry.
Slaughtering live sheep in front of the store is the old rule of this mutton soup restaurant, and it also advertises that the meat provided by the store is fresh and delicious. However, according to an insider, half a month ago, boss Zhao of the mutton soup restaurant bought two sheep, one big and one small, from a farmer. On this day, boss Zhao is going to kill the big sheep first, and let the guys start preparing. The man put the knife on the bench outside the house, turned into the house to get the basin for sheep blood, but when he took it out, he couldn't find the knife. Everyone in the shop said he didn't see it.
At this time, the big sheep was licking the little sheep with tears, and the little sheep was lying on the ground looking up at the big sheep, and the tears had wet the hair under its eyes. Seeing this, the man called the boss. Boss Zhao saw this scene, and his heart couldn't help trembling. Recalling that the sheep seller once said that these two sheep were NianLia, it should be that both NianLia knew that parting was coming and were saying goodbye. In order not to let the lamb see the big sheep being slaughtered with his own eyes, Boss Zhao asked the boy to take the lamb away. But just as the lamb was pulled up, the man found the knife he was looking for where the lamb was lying. No one knows how the knife got under the lamb, but everyone present agreed that the lamb must have hidden the knife under his body to prevent his mother from being killed.
I've heard of cattle, horses and other livestock crying before they were killed, but it's the first time that Boss Zhao, who has been running a mutton soup restaurant for more than five years, has witnessed this kind of thing with his own eyes. He hesitated again and again, and he motioned the man to let the two sheep live. A few days have passed, and the scene of the sheep and mother crying goodbye always appears in front of Boss Zhao from time to time, which makes him uneasy. After several days of ideological struggle, he finally decided to close the mutton soup restaurant and stop working in this industry.
Coincidentally, similar stories happened in ancient times. Please look-
There is a butcher surnamed An in Yizhou, who has ewes and lambs at home. One day, after going to slaughter the ewe and tying it up on the shelf, the lamb suddenly bent its front hoofs and knelt down to Butcher An, with tears in her eyes. Butcher An was amazed for a long time. He put the knife on the ground and asked a child to mow it together. When he came back, he couldn't find the knife. The knife was in the mouth of the lamb and placed in the shadow of the wall. The lamb lay on it. Butcher An couldn't find the knife, and he suspected that it had been stolen by a neighbor. He thought about it and suddenly turned to kick the lamb away. He found the knife hidden under its stomach, so he suddenly realized that the lamb knelt down to beg for its mother's life. Butcher An untied the ewe's rope and sent it to the temple with the lamb for release. Butcher An himself soon gave up his wife and son and went to the temple to become a monk, keeping his dharma name and thinking.
Hezi commented: Just like listening to a bell ringing in autumn, the public quietly thought about how the lamb was heartbroken when it caught a glimpse of its mother being tied up; When begging for mercy from the butcher on his knees, how his blood gushed; How to be frightened when lying on the butcher knife; When she entered the temple with the ewe, she danced with joy. What a filial lamb! What a brave butcher!
For thousands of years, there has been a lot of complaints.
If you want to know about the sword robbery in the world, but listen to the midnight sound of the butcher door.
Neighboring chickens crow first every night, and they come here to spend the fifth watch.
Bloody and delicious. General pain and resentment are hard to stretch.
I thought to myself. Who will cut himself with a knife?
If you want to prolong your life and listen to me, you must seek for yourself in everything.
If you want to prolong your life, you must release it. This is the truth of circulation.
If it dies, save it. If someone saves you when you die.
All beings are of the same nature, but their karma is different.
Calf swallowing knife (Liu Ya Wai Bian)
There is a butcher named Wang in Shuyang County, who kills cattle for a living. Once, he bought two cows, mother and son, and planned to kill the cow first, so he tied it up and sharpened the knife for slaughter. Someone knocked at the door at this moment, so he put down his knife and went out. At this time, the calf came to the door of the neighbor Sun Laohan's house with a knife in his hand and pushed the door with a horn. Sun's family is a farmer. When the old man heard the sound, he went out and saw a knife in the calf's mouth, swallowing half of it, and soon swallowed it all and wailed at him. Sun Laohan was amazed at this. At this moment, Butcher Wang followed him because he couldn't find the calf and knife. When Sun Laohan asked about the situation, he realized that the calf swallowed the knife because he didn't want the cow to be slaughtered. So he asked the price of the two cows, bought them with double money, and then untied the cow and brought it over. When the calf saw the cow, it barked and knelt on the ground. The cow also lay down beside it, licking the calf from beginning to end. Sun Laohan thought that the calf would definitely not live, but after a few days, nothing happened. Later, the cow worked hard for the Sun family for many years, and the calf continued to work for more than 20 years until the son of the old man Sun died. When the calf died, someone who had heard of the anecdote of swallowing a knife cut open its belly and found that the knife was between the belly and stomach, wrapped in a thick skin, just like a new knife in a sheath.
Liu Yazi, the author, said: According to legend, a calf buried a butcher's knife for a cow. I heard that a similar thing happened in Wangya Village, my hometown a few years ago. But this calf swallowed a knife for its mother, which made people feel very sad. With gratitude and attachment, two cows worked hard in Sun Laohan's house until their death. It can be said that both mother and son did not live up to their deep kindness of saving lives.
Crane commented: I have only heard of such an earth-shattering feat. When I read this story, I was shocked at first, then filled with respect, then moved to tears, and then danced with joy to celebrate.
Poetry says:
Don't be suspicious if you swallow a knife, but knock on the corner to find Sun Laolu alone.
When the mother and son meet the sky, they are even more ecstatic at the moment.
The calf hides the knife (Part II of the Record of the Same Birth)
There was a butcher named Zhao in Anning Prefecture, Yunnan Province, who once slaughtered a cow, tied it up and went into the house to get a bucket. The calf of this cow was on the side and immediately hid in the crevice with a knife in its mouth. When the butcher came back, he couldn't find the knife anywhere. It happened that his neighbor saw it and told him what happened. The butcher did not believe this, so he took out the knife and put it back in its original place. He watched it quietly through the window, and sure enough, he saw the calf hide the knife again. This situation greatly touched the conscience of the butcher named Zhao, and he felt sorry for his life's killing, so he went to Huashan to become a Taoist priest and prayed to God every day to repent. He also raised these two cows for twenty years and buried them after their death.
Poetry says:
The head of the knife is red with blood, and the calf is poor with a knife.
In the past 20 years, Huashan has enjoyed a good relaxation.
When Xiao Zhen was a teenager, he dreamed that the man of God told him, "You can only live to eighteen years old." Later, his father was sent to be the head coach of Sichuan. Xiao Zhen felt that his life was impermanent and he didn't want to go with him. His father forced him to go with him.
When he arrived in Sichuan, the commander-in-chief gave a banquet in honor of the soldiers. After three rounds of wine, he would like to enter a dish called "Jade chopsticks soup" as usual. The method of this dish is to burn red iron chopsticks with strong fire, then drill into the mother's milk, and the milk will flow out and condense on the iron chopsticks, and then add seasoning to make dishes. Xiao Zhen accidentally walked into the kitchen and saw many cows tied inside. He was surprised. When asked about the reason, he was shocked and thought, "Human beings are only trying to eat for a while, but they don't hesitate to suffer such torture at the innocent cows." So he hurried to report to his father that in order to avoid the cows from suffering again, he requested a pasta brand and ordered that this delicious dish be banned forever.
Soon, Xiao Zhen dreamed that the man of God said to him, "You have a kind heart and made a great virtue, which not only saved you from premature death, but also enabled you to live a hundred years." Later, Xiao Zhen really lived to be in his nineties and died peacefully.
Killing and abstaining from killing (1) killers, wicked heart thinks evil things; Those who quit are kind-hearted and good at law. 2 killers, all beings are not happy; All beings are happy to be attached to those who quit. (3) the killer, when sleeping, his heart is afraid, and he feels uneasy; Those who quit are fearless and happy.
Terrible. (4) the killer, at the end of his life, is crazy and evil; Those who quit, when their lives are dying, have no worries or regrets. (5) the killer will end up in three ways. If he is a human being, he will be short-lived and ill; Those who quit, born into heaven, received wonderful music, and lived a long life until they became Buddhas.
Letting go begins with every compassionate thought. It is hard for anyone to strangle, so let's start with being loose and keep your mouth shut. Life is precious, diving is sports, jumping off a building is suicide, cherish yourself and others.
If you want to know about the sword robbery in the world, but listen to the midnight sound of the butcher door. Don't just blame yourself for being sick and bringing disaster, but look at how many sentient beings have died by your sword.