1. Releasing lives is a matter of immeasurable merit in Buddhism. This not only accumulates merit for yourself, but also accumulates blessings for your children. Releasing lives The animal can be any creature in nature, and turtles are just one of them. Therefore, the person who wants to buy a turtle and release it must be a Buddhist believer who believes that releasing a turtle can accumulate merit for himself and his children.
2. What are the benefits of releasing lives?
(1) Release of lives is to save lives. Release of lives is to save the lives of those beings who are captured, arrested, about to be slaughtered, and whose lives are in danger. And all sentient beings The most precious thing is that their lives can be revived and their lives are saved. They are the most grateful, so the merit is great!
(2) To release lives is to repay debts. The killing karma that people have committed in this life and in the past kalpas has been immeasurable. To release lives is to use money and efforts to save the lives of living beings in order to repay the countless debts of killings owed by people in the past. .
(3) Life release means emergency rescue. Release of life is different from other merits. It is to save lives at a critical moment. The lives that will be slaughtered at any time can be restored to life. It is an action that can be done without delay, just like Emergency care in a hospital is normal. One moment and one action can save tens of thousands of lives, so the merit is profound.
(4) Life release is compassion. The Buddha’s heart is the heart of great compassion. Compassion is the foundation of learning Buddhism, and life release is an act of compassion and salvation in order to relieve the suffering of sentient beings. Releasing animals can cultivate our compassion. In the process of releasing animals, compassion is cultivated to the greatest extent. If you release life frequently, your compassion will always grow, and you will be more in tune with the Buddha's heart. It will be easier for you to feel connected with the Buddha, and it will be easier for you to achieve Buddhism.
(5) To release lives is to realize that the Buddha nature of any living being is indistinguishable and indistinguishable from me, so every life is equally precious. During the release of life, let us realize that all living beings are greedy for life and afraid of death, all know to seek good luck and avoid evil, and all have joy, anger, sorrow and joy. Compared with me, they are exactly the same; all living beings have the true Buddha nature. Once the karma is fully emptied, everything in the future will be successful. To become a Buddha, saving a sentient being is like saving a child of the Buddha, and it is even more equivalent to saving a future Buddha.
(6) Releasing life is practice. Instead of saying thousands of words in vain, it is better to practice one word of practice. The most important thing in learning Buddhism is practice. In the true act of releasing lives, we must truly cultivate compassion, truly save lives, truly take refuge, recite Buddha's name, repent, and dedicate all sentient beings, and truly understand the truth that all living beings are equal, have Buddha nature, and can become Buddhas. Only by truly benefiting yourself and others can you truly benefit from such practice.
(7) Freeing animals means actively practicing vegetarianism and releasing animals are two extremely important things for Buddhist practitioners to practice. But being vegetarian only stops evil. It means passively no longer creating killing karma and no longer accumulating new debts for killing; while releasing animals promotes good deeds and actively redeems lives and repays previous debts for killing. If one adopts a vegetarian diet but does not release animals, the previous killing karma will still have consequences; if one releases animals but does not adopt a vegetarian diet, all the merits gained by eating meat and killing animals will be lost. Therefore, vegetarianism and animal release are two sides of the same body, and they need to complement each other and go hand in hand at the same time for the effect to be significant.
(8) To release lives means to release them on the same day. Countless sentient beings trapped in prisons will be freed immediately on that day. Countless lives on the verge of death will immediately regain their vitality. Infinite merits can be obtained immediately on that day. And no matter how many people there are, how little or how much money, at any time and in any place, as long as they show compassion, anyone can perform life release.