The basic meaning of releasing life is to mutualize life, to take those living beings who have lost their freedom, or who will be slaughtered, and return them to nature, so that they will not be artificially bound or brutalized; this is the most basic meaning of the act of releasing life.
What is the benefit of such behavior?
If everyone treats the people and things around them with compassion, then many disputes will be avoided, and there will be less fighting in the human world. At the same time in our compassion for those who will be slaughtered animals, this compassionate mind, but also contains a great tolerance and understanding, anything, can be tolerated, any evil, can be compassionate, like the sea does not abandon the fish and shrimp, so for the big. Often this exercise of one's heart, mutual sensitization, tolerance of each other, people are more harmonious with each other.
Again, we eat other animals, they also have emotions, thinking, which is the same as people have emotions and thinking is a reason, the rationale is no two no difference. It's just that we don't understand their language. Look at the slaughter of livestock, they also have to howl, just like a person who is going to be cut alive, that is also howling. Would we want to be eaten by lions and tigers? No, no one wants to be killed and eaten, and we don't want to be eaten by lions and tigers, and all animals don't want to be eaten by human beings, so based on the Buddhist doctrine of karma, killing and eating meat is to be repaid, and to be rewarded with bad karma. On the other hand, if you don't kill and release more animals, you will be rewarded with good karma. Livestock, fish and insects are all life, their lives, equal to our lives, a humble and tolerant, kind and benevolent equal heart, will be revealed, even these animals can not bear to hurt, not to mention to hurt the people around us? Everyone is equal. If we have these compassionate, tolerant, equal heart, everywhere courtesy. Then everyone is a living lightning rod, everyone is a good example. Oh, it's a pity! People are strong and difficult to transform, all want to be self-centered, selfish, detrimental to others to benefit themselves, and so on, naturally give birth to many social problems, family problems, and finally suffer from their own. A round cake, you also want to eat, I also want to eat, all go to grab to go, and finally make a mess, who are not comfortable to eat, are not delicious. If I want to let you eat first, you also want to let me eat first, we are compassionate and sympathetic, compassion for each other, do not fight, do not grab, and finally can be equally distributed, reasonable division, so it is not quite good, have such a heart, who will tear the face it? Small as a cake, is this reason, big as energy land property is also this reason. This is a small part of the benefits that can be reflected in the release of life, so we should advocate more release of life, people with this kind of behavior, and each other.
What to pay attention to when releasing life? Be voluntary. Reluctance is not the way. This behavior is to cultivate the human heart, if it is forced by others, it is not counted as one's own enlightenment, not counted as one's own intention, to release the life you have to be willing to do so. This is really something to be aware of. When releasing animals, according to the rules of Buddhism, you can release them while reciting Buddhist scriptures, or reciting sutras and mantras such as "Namo Guanshiyin Bodhisattva," in order to wish these beings in the animal path to be free from suffering and to be happy. Buddhism says that "all laws are created by the heart", which summarizes the meaning: any good or bad, right or wrong, good or bad retribution, are all created by the human heart, a thought of purity of the heart, the lotus flower blooms everywhere. With your own heart, compassion, sincere to do things, do good things, to care for those who are not treated equally beings, so you can achieve good results. You should not underestimate such a thing, release and then finished, no, the blessing of releasing life is great. If you release a hundred, you may save a hundred lives; if you release a thousand, you may save a thousand lives; if we release a few every day, we will be saving lives every day, and you will be practicing the way of the Bodhisattva. Between heaven and earth, rewards and punishments have always been very clear: those who release life gain life; those who kill life lose life. This is a very simple and straightforward truth of cause and effect. The more animals that receive new life from our hands, the less bad karma will be incurred because of these good deeds. On the contrary, the more beings we kill from our hands, the more they are called upon to kill. Letting them go is the same as letting ourselves go. It seems to prolong their lives, but in fact it is prolonging our own lives. This is the law of nature, the law of cause and effect, constant and unchanging.
There are many stories on the internet about the experience of releasing a child, and they are all true stories, so you can search for the release of a child. Some of them have a terminal illness, and then through the release of life, although not cured, but no longer recur without suffering, help people kill, and then the family broke up and suffered a tragic retribution. Since the ancient sages, all advocate the release of life, just because there are those real evidence in.
Well! I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said. I hope that you more release, more persuade people to release, there is no harm to yourself. As long as you insist, perseverance, sincerity, you will certainly be able to experience the benefits of life release, those who release the experience of life, you yourself to experience it physically!
Namo Amitabha Buddha