To practice Buddhism is to learn from Buddha.Start with the body, mouth and mind, learn the body of Buddhism, the mouth and mind of Buddhism.The body of learning Buddhism is the behavior of learning Buddhism. How can you achieve the highest standards by walking, standing, sitting, and lying down?How do you speak in your daily life when learning Buddhism?What are the standards?When we study Buddhism, we should also have a standard for our thoughts and actions, which will reach the highest, most perfect, truth, goodness and beauty. In this way, we can achieve the Buddha's compassion, wisdom, concentration, and even the Buddha's supernatural powers and wonderful uses.
To reach this state, there are various conveniences. The so-called convenience is a bridge or a pipeline.Doing something is also convenient. If it is not convenient, it will not be easy to do things well. Practice must also be convenient. Without convenience, it will not be easy to succeed in our practice.What is convenience?The first thing to do in practicing is to eat vegetarian food, and eating vegetarian food is a convenience.Why is vegetarianism a convenient way?The spirit of our Buddhism is compassion, which is equality. If we want to achieve a compassionate and equal heart, we must first not kill, second to save lives, and third to eat vegetarian food.If we do all this, compassion will appear. Compassion is the Buddha's heart, so eating vegetarian food seems ordinary, and its meaning is very far-reaching.
Many people have been studying Buddhism for a long time, but have not had the intention to eat vegetarian food. They think it’s good to practice Buddhism, so why should they eat vegetarian food?A few years ago, a scholar published an article, and everyone thought he was a great charity and wrote many books.In his article, he said that eating vegetarian food is not what Buddhism says, and eating vegetarian food has nothing to do with our practice, so after he published this article, many people who used to eat vegetarian food no longer eat vegetarian food.He said that people who eat vegetarians cannot achieve enlightenment, eating vegetarians cannot eliminate karma, and eating vegetarians cannot be liberated. Eating vegetarians is not what Buddhism says, and he gave many examples: First, when the Buddha was alive, Brahmanism also vegetarians, and now many Taoisms also vegetarians, and even those who do not believe in religion also eat vegetarians, which proves that eating vegetarians is not a religious activity.Second, eating vegetarian food cannot leave the pain. Cattle, horses, and elephants also eat grass, they have never eaten meat, are still slaughtered, and suffer in the evil paths of the three stupas, so eating vegetarian food is useless. Therefore, many people who used to eat vegetarian food will stop eating vegetarian food after hearing what they say.
Let’s think about what kind of knowledge this is?It’s really evil knowledge and evil views!Although it is practicing Buddhism, even if you are wrong in your knowledge and view, you will go in the opposite direction and spend a lot of time, but you will not achieve any effect. This is because of wrong knowledge and view.Especially when our practice is in this mind, we lose a thousand miles, one is south and the other is north, and it goes in opposite directions and becomes farther and farther away. If there is a cliff ahead, if you hit a cliff and fall into a cliff, you will have problems.So the scholar said that eating vegetarian food is not Buddhism. Eating vegetarian food cannot relieve pain, eating vegetarian food cannot eliminate karma, eating vegetarian food does not increase blessings, and cattle and horses are all vegetarian, so why do you still become an animal?
Let’s study and study. Cattle, sheep and horses are not about eating vegetarian food. We should be about learning Buddhism. What is the purpose of eating vegetarian food?Many people are greedy for merit and believe that eating vegetarian food has merit;Some people eat morning vegetarian food and say they are eating vegetarian food after eating one meal in the morning. Is this a vegetarian food?Although I am not a vegetarian, I still have the concept of eating vegetarian food and I still have merits.Why not be considered vegetarian?Because many people don’t eat this meal in the morning, of course there is no merit.Cattle and sheep are not determined to eat vegetarian food. We are determined to eat vegetarian food now.What kind of intentions do you have?It is based on compassion and equality.I just said that many people do not believe in religion and eat vegetarian food. That is for the sake of health. They believe that eating meat and blood vessels will block and eat vegetarian food. There are also people who are greedy for merit and eat vegetarian food. These are all motivations for eating vegetarian food. Therefore, many scholars advocate vegetarian food, not only vegetarian food, but also vegetarian food. Is these concepts of eating vegetarian food merit?No merit.This is just to protect one's own health. Although it is also a kind of aspiration, it is not in line with the practice of Buddhism.
What is correspondence?The so-called correspondence is to correspond to compassion and equal mind. This is the Bodhisattva and this is the Buddha.Equality and compassion are Buddhas, so the Buddhist scriptures say that sentient beings are happy and all Buddhas are happy.Bodhisattvas take compassion as the foundation, and develop bodhicitta because of great compassion, and achieve enlightenment because of bodhicitta.What is great compassion?All sentient beings have Buddha nature, everyone is greedy for life and fear of death, and all animals have a heart that is greedy for life and fear of death. This is awareness and spiritual mind. Everyone has it, and animals have it. Based on this principle, we cannot bear to eat them.Mencius also said that when a gentleman sees his life, he cannot bear to see his death;Hearing the sound, he couldn't bear to eat his meat.Therefore, a gentleman is far away from the kitchen.When we see an animal crying and crying at the time of death, we feel very miserable. Based on this compassion, we cannot eat the flesh of sentient beings. This is the first reason, it is entirely based on compassion and the relationship between Buddha nature.
The second is a relationship based on causality.What is cause and effect?A person has the cause and effect of the past, present and future three lives. When we eat their meat now, they will kill us and eat us in the future.Most people know that eating 4 taels requires half a pound of money. This is the relationship between cause and effect. Based on this principle, we cannot eat meat.The third reason is that all sentient beings are our relatives. In this life, whether they are together, whether they are parents, brothers, teachers, or fellow practitioners, this is fate, one is good fate, and the other is bad fate. If you have made good fate in the past, you will be able to get along in this life and everyone will help each other;If you are not good at dealing with it, stealing or fraud, you will be enemies and enemies when you meet in this life. This is cause and effect.For this reason, we must never violate the principle of cause and effect. Maybe the meat we eat now is our past relatives and friends. After eating meat, we eat relatives and relatives. Therefore, we must be compassionate and be kind.Some people believe these principles, and some people may not believe that people have three lifetimes of cause and effect. If you observe slowly, cause and effect will be in daily life.
There was a Hanshan and Shide in the past. Everyone knew that it was the incarnation of Manjushri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva. One day, Hanshan Master went out to travel around the world and saw the village asking for a wife. He held hundreds of tables in the banquet and held drums and drums, and everyone was very happy. When Hanshan Master saw it, he cried with tears in his eyes. The people next to him said, "You crazy man, today is a happy event. Why are you crying here? Relatives and friends said that you were going to drive him away. Hanshan Master said, "I am not a crazy man, you are a crazy man."The people present said, "We are normal, you are crazy, how can we say we are crazy?"Master Hanshan immediately said a poem:
The six realms of reincarnation are suffering, and the grandson marrys his grandmother;
The cattle and sheep are the best, and cook them in the six-kind pot.
It is very painful in the six realms of reincarnation. If a person does not know how to work hard or practice in life, he will be reincarnation in the six realms of reincarnation.The first of the six realms is the heavenly realm. If you practice the ten virtues, you will ascend to heaven. If you practice the four meditations and eight concentrations, you can also ascend to heaven.The second is the Shura path. Shura has the blessing of heaven, but does not have the virtue of heaven, and looks very ugly.The third is humanity. We are now humane. There are all kinds of people in the world, and everyone is different.The fourth is the animal realm, followed by the hungry ghost realm, and the second is the hell realm. The hell realm is a person with extreme sins. In these six realms of reincarnation, the heavens have all the blessings. When it comes to the human realm, maybe the heavens have all the blessings, and they immediately become animals and fall into the evil realm. They are always in the heaven, the human realm, hell, hungry ghosts and animals, like wheels. If you don’t know how to work hard or practice, you will always be in the six realms of reincarnation for life and life, and suffer too much other sufferings, so life is a sea of suffering.
The six realms of reincarnation are suffering. When the grandson marrys his grandmother, we see that they are the groom and the bride. In fact, the grandson marrys his grandmother as his wife. Now most people cannot see it. They do not have this wisdom eye, this Dharma eye, and the heavenly eye. So everyone is in a reincarnation. When the grandson marrys his grandmother, you see that they are crazy, are they delusions?Cattle and sheep are the best, and now there are many relatives and friends. What is this?These are the cattle and sheep killed in the past, and they are reincarnated as human beings in this life. What are the chicken, duck and beef cooked in the six relatives pot now?We are all relatives from the past. We want to see that Buddhas and Bodhisattvas have the ability to see that with the divine eyes, they can see clearly these things. Do not eat the meat of sentient beings. They are entirely based on compassion and equality, so we must never eat the meat of sentient beings.
The scholar I just talked about said that eating vegetarian food is not what we say in Buddhism, and whether it is Mahayana or Hinayana scriptures, it is said that he does not eat the flesh of sentient beings, which shows that he has never read the Buddhist scriptures.The Mahayana sutras are very clear. For example, in the Bodhisattva Precepts, it is said that you should not eat the flesh of sentient beings, and you should also keep the six fasts days;In the Hinayana scriptures, the Buddha also tells us that we should eat the three pure meats and the five pure meats. When we first practiced and learned Buddhism, we became greedy and greedy for our mouths. Since eating meat has become a habit, we will feel sad and cannot eat it. If there is no fish in a meal, we cannot eat it. We think that eating fish is a kind of happiness and enjoyment, but in fact we are creating karma. The same principle is, so the Buddha preaches convenience and tells us to eat the three pure meats.
What is the three clean meat?When we eat meat, we have three conditions. With these three conditions, eating this meat will be pure and there will be no sin.The first condition: no killing is seen;The second one: don’t teach him to kill;Third: Don’t kill for yourself, not just for yourself.What does it mean to kill without seeing you?When I go to the market to buy things, there are many housewives who go to the market to buy things. When they see that the chicken has just been slaughtered and it is very fresh, they buy it back. This is to kill him when he sees him, but he will not save him when he sees him. Without compassion, he will suffer if he eats him. Therefore, we should not kill him when he sees him, but if he wants to buy, he will buy him when he wants to.The second one is not to kill himself, nor does he ask him to kill.There are many people who are afraid of killing themselves, and they are still guilty of asking others to kill.It is a vicious heart to ask others to kill, but I am here to enjoy the fruits of it, causing them to suffer.Although this is not a killing, it is also a sin that instigates him to kill and instigate the instigator is an accomplice.The third one is not specifically for yourself.What does it mean not to kill for yourself?For example, if you go to your relatives and friends’ houses, because you haven’t seen you for a long time, you feel very friendly and you will kill a chicken for you, so this chicken cannot be eaten!Why?After eating this, you will create evil deeds. If you don’t go, the chicken will not die, so you can’t eat this chicken.
If we want to protect our lives, for our own health, although we cannot eat vegetarian food completely, we must eat three clean meat at the lowest level. The first is to not kill us;The second is not to commit suicide or teach him to kill;The third is not to kill for oneself.I got used to eating the three pure meat, and gradually discovered the good roots and developed compassion. I knew that the three pure meat was not the highest level. I would like to eat the five pure meat. What is the five pure meat?Five clean meats have five conditions. Once we eat this meat, we will never suffer.In addition to the three conditions mentioned just now, two more are added, one is to die of self-death, or die of illness, or die of old age, or be hit by someone else, so you can eat it.But now people generally believe that those who die of illness cannot eat, and those who die of old age cannot eat, so there are fewer opportunities for this kind of opportunity.The other is the silence of birds. What is the silence of birds?The legs left by wild beasts and birds on the mountain can be picked up and eaten, and there are even fewer opportunities, so don’t eat them, and it will be completely clean.
We are now vegetarian and also prescribe it.You should know that eating vegetarian food becomes a habit, but before you develop a habit, you will have troubles in your heart, as if you have something missing, and you feel that your stomach has no taste, your mouth has no taste, and you don’t want to eat any food. In order to avoid these effects, you simply eat vegetarian food for six days a month, which is called the Six Fast Day.There are many people who eat vegetarian food on the first day of the junior high school, which is also good to eat vegetarian food for a day;Some foods are OK in the morning, all of which are compassionate.But to truly achieve the benefits, you have to eat for six days. According to the records in the Buddhist scriptures, there is no morning vegetarianism, nor is there a vegetarian diet on the first and fifteenth day of the day. This is for the convenience of the world.If you really want to follow Buddhism, it is six days, and eating vegetarian food for six days in a month is called the six days of vegetarian food.The first half of the month, the eighth, fourteenth, and fifteenth day;The second half of the month, the last two days of the year end, add up to six days.During these six days, you must not eat the meat of sentient beings. Not only will you not eat the meat of sentient beings, but during these six days, try to keep the three karmas of body, speech and mind as pure as possible.If you don’t look bad, your ears don’t listen badly, your nose doesn’t smell bad, your mouth doesn’t talk about other people’s right and wrong, your heart doesn’t have delusions, and your body does more good deeds. This is called the six fasting days in our Buddhism.
Some people take the Eight Precepts during these six days or other times, which will increase blessings and eliminate karma.Why do you need to keep the six fasting days?Everything in our world has a cause and effect. On the eighth day of the lunar month, we are subordinates of the four heavenly kings who come to inspect the good and evil in the world.The eight divisions of the Heavenly Dragons are all managed by the four heavenly kings. On this day, the eight divisions of the Heavenly Dragons come to inspect the good and evil in the world. You just happened to do a lot of good deeds. The eight divisions of the Heavenly Dragons will immediately record you and send them to the four heavenly kings. This life will increase your blessings and longevity.If you do something bad, you might soon be in a life of great disasters and you don’t have to be punished in the next life.Why?The sins are extremely serious and evil, and the four great kings will not give you retribution in the next life, so you will be repaid soon in this life.On the fourteenth day, the prince of the four heavenly kings came to inspect the good and evil in the world.On the fifteenth day, the four heavenly kings came to inspect the good and evil in the world, and the same was true in the second half of the month.During these six days, we do not do any evil and do all good. During these six days, we will make every effort to do everything in the world and the worldly good deeds. If we do not do evil, we will truly increase our blessings and longevity.
Many people say, Master, it seems that we do good deeds because the four heavenly kings have arrived.In fact, this is a convenience. After all six days, you will develop the habit, and this month is equivalent to the six fasting days.We people are not easy to develop good habits, but bad habits are easy to develop.For example: smoking, eating alcohol, chewing betel nut, and even spending nightlife, we didn’t have these habits, but they were gradually developed later.Bad habits are developed very quickly and I learn to smoke in less than a few times, but it is not easy to quit smoking.The same is true for eating alcohol. If you eat slowly, it will be difficult to quit alcohol. Buddhism tells us to slowly quit the most important bad habits. If you develop good habits and good thoughts, you will have a bright heart.So there are several benefits to eating vegetarian food: the first is to cultivate our compassion.How can we fully achieve the purpose and benefits of eating vegetarian food?It is to be right.What kind of intentions do you have?We are not greedy for merit. We cannot be said to be without merit. Where does merit come from?It grows from compassion and from equality.We know that chanting Buddha’s name has merits, reciting scriptures has merits, and eating vegetarian food has merits. Where is the ultimate merit?All of this depends on our intentions.If we do not have this mind, have no equality, and have no compassion, eating vegetarian food is just thinking about ourselves, being self-image is self-image, and being greedy for ourselves.Although greed for your own body to eat vegetarian food can achieve health, ignorance and ignorance will increase in your heart every day, and there is no merit. Therefore, we must do anything to be upright. If we have a right mind and eat vegetarian food, we will have infinite merits and infinite blessings.
If you have a bad intention, even if it is the same thing, you may not have great blessings.The scholar I just mentioned only saw the surface, saying that cattle, horse and sheep cannot be liberated by eating vegetarian food, so why can cattle, horse and sheep not be liberated by eating vegetarian food?Because they have no intention, no compassion, or equality, they are completely a karma that must be eaten. If they do not eat grass, they will die. Once they eat grass, they are like suffering. This is a kind of evil retribution in the past, not a desire, so the scholar is completely a prejudice.Why did this kind of insight come about?Sensational!When we practice Buddhism, whether we are at home or monks, we must be close to good teachers and be able to get close to a great good teacher who truly practices and realizes it. This is the most important thing.
It is very important for practitioners to have a vegetarian mind.Let’s talk about the current unhealthy trends.What kind of unhealthy trend?Many people were diligent in studying Buddhism, and they also ate vegetarian food and received the Five Precepts. Finally, they said that Tantra can eat meat and wine, so they went to Tantra.When asked why he went to study esoteric Buddhism, he said that studying esoteric Buddhism is very good. You can eat meat and wine. You can enjoy the joy of the five desires in the world, and you can also get liberation and become a Buddha in this life!Let’s think about it, then is there such a thing?These are the incorrect knowledge and views!Why don’t Tantra eat vegetarian food?In the past, I lived in Tibet in animal husbandry, and there were no vegetables in that place, so I ate cattle and sheep.Now that the secret Dharma has arrived in Taiwan, the environment has changed, so many people still eat vegetarian food.Nowadays, many opportunistic people use their practice of Tantra to practice their own convenience, indulge in the five desires, and take the wrong path, which is bad.
We need to know why we need to eat vegetarian food when practicing Buddhism?It is a compassionate and equal heart.Many people say that eating vegetarian food is not nutritious.A few years ago, a lay Buddhist came to Wanli Mountain very late to knock on Master’s door. He said, Master is sorry, but I really have no choice, so I came to ask Master to give me a lesson in the evening.I asked him what happened, why did he come to the mountain so late?He said, Master, it's really amazing, I can't sleep for a month.I asked him why he couldn't sleep?There must be some problems in my mind.He said that ten years ago, he made a wish to Guanyin Bodhisattva, praying for the compassion of Guanyin Bodhisattva. If he could buy a house, he would start to eat vegetarian food. Now he not only bought a house, but also two.Logically speaking, I should have been vegetarian, but I also felt that the vegetables had no taste;On the other hand, my wife didn't give me vegetarian food, saying that there was no nutrition in the vegetables.Is it better to eat vegetarian food or not?If you don’t eat vegetarian food and Guanyin Bodhisattva fulfills my wish, I’m sorry to Guanyin Bodhisattva;If you are vegetarian, it is neither delicious, has no taste, and is not nutritious.Do you eat or not?If you don’t eat, I’m sorry to Guanyin Bodhisattva;After eating, these problems arise again. For this problem, I always keep thinking about it in my heart. After thinking about it for a long time, the problems arise.Master!You are worshipping Guanyin Bodhisattva. Please tell Guanyin Bodhisattva with compassion. When I buy a house on Dihua Street, I will come and eat vegetarian food again. OK?I said, even if you buy a house on Dihua Street, you still can't eat vegetarian food.Because you now think that houses on Dihua Street are very expensive, and now the municipal government has moved to Wuxing Street and Sanzhangli. In the future, the houses on Sanzhangli will increase. You may ask Guanyin Bodhisattva to buy a house in Sanzhangli and then eat vegetarian food. Even if you buy a house in Sanzhangli, it is still impossible to eat vegetarian food!
There are many wealthy families in Taiwan now, not to mention one, two, three houses, ten or twenty houses.He can't eat vegetarian food now. Even if he has twenty houses, he still won't be content. He still has to buy products in Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong, and mainland China. This will never end and he will never eat vegetarian food.We are vegetarian, is it delicious?Which one is delicious?That one is not delicious?This is not an absolute thing.For example, most Taiwanese people like to eat light foods;Guangdong people are different again. They like to eat sweet, sour, and add a little salt. They say that the taste is Cantonese, and this taste is very good.So, Hunan people are different again. What do people in this area like to eat, Hunan, Sichuan and Hubei?If you like spicy food or alkaline, no matter how good your dish is, if it is not spicy or alkaline, it will not taste good.There are also people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who like to eat smelly things. The more smelly the smelly things, the more fragrant it feels. You see, many people like to eat stinky tofu now, but many people feel dizzy when they smell stinky tofu. Do you think this smelly thing is delicious or not delicious?There are also southerners who like to eat rice, while northerners who like to eat noodles. Look at the northerner, he only needs a steamed bun, put a garlic in it, and add a scoop of chili sauce, and wrap it in this steamed bun, and eat it with relish. He thinks this thing is better than the food for the New Year, and this is the taste of northerners.People in Brazil are different. They like to eat sour food. If there is no sour food on this table, they think it is not delicious.In addition, some people like to eat bitter melon, and a gentleman likes to eat bitter melon. If you want to invite him, you must prepare bitter melon first. If there is no bitter melon on the table, he will immediately pat his butt and run away.Let’s think about it, which one is delicious?Which one is not delicious?After we understand this problem, we know that the taste is false, not true, but is completely a distinction and attachment in our hearts.
In our Buddhism, all dharmas have dependent origination and emptiness, and all phenomena are born from the combination of causes and conditions.The cause and condition are gone, everything is false and everything is empty.The same is true for the taste. On the one hand, it is a habit we have developed in the past, and on the other hand, it is believed that this taste is delicious and very consistent with our own taste. This is completely a personal distinction and persistence.Which one do you think is delicious?Which one is not delicious?For another example, there are many coolies who do not eat well, but they are very healthy;On the contrary, there are many wealthy families who eat good food every day and even take supplements, and their health may not be healthy.Why?It is because there are troubles in the heart.If you have troubles in your heart, you will not be able to digest things after eating and cannot absorb them, so you will be excreted after eating.Therefore, whether it is nutritious or not, it is not necessarily on vegetables.
Whether we are at home or monks, before we eat vegetarian food, we always think that big fish and meat are delicious, and that simple food is not delicious. This is our past habit and persistence.Now I have become accustomed to eating vegetarian food. I have been using it for ten, twenty, thirty, and forty years, but I still feel that eating vegetarian food is fragrant and sweet.The big fish and meat that used to be delicious now seems to be smelly and will make you dizzy when you smell it.Let’s think about it, what’s the reason?In the past, I thought it was delicious, but now I think it is not delicious;I used to think it was not delicious, but now I think it is delicious;In the past, I thought that simple food was not delicious, but now I eat it so delicious that it tastes sweet and sweet;In the past, I thought big fish and meat were delicious, but now I think it is fishy and smelly.What is the reason for this?This proves that eating vegetarian food and meat is delicious entirely due to our thoughts.There are many people who run at 3:30, and there is no solution at 3:30.His friend said, I really can't help you, so I can only treat you to one meal. The problem at 3:30 was not solved. No matter how good this meal is for him, after eating, you ask him, is this dish delicious?He must not know why?There was a problem in his mind, and there was no taste after eating it.So after we understand, whether it is vegetarian or meat, it is completely a problem for our hearts.
Most people say that vegetables are not nutritious, which makes no sense at all.There are many vegetarians nowadays, and they don’t necessarily believe in religion to eat vegetarian food.Other people who do not believe in religion also come to eat vegetarian food for health, and the vegetables are very nutritious.We are now vegetarian and have been eating for decades. We have never eaten meat. We are very healthy, which proves that the nutrition in vegetables is also very high.Nowadays, many hormones, proteins, and other things are extracted from plants, and rarely are extracted from animals. How can vegetables be said to be without nutrition?Let’s look at the elephants, cows, and horses also eat grass?They are all powerful, which proves that plants are very nutritious.
Our lifespan is very short now. According to historical records, the lifespan of people in the past was very long, hundreds, thousands, and even tens of thousands of years old.Let’s think about it now that medicine has developed and science has made progress, we should be healthy and have a long lifespan, but why are we not as good as those in the past?What is obvious here is that first, in the past, those people ate fruits, natural things, and wore leaves, unlike now, which are very luxurious and luxurious.What do you live in?They live in wooden shelves and wooden houses.So nowadays, most people like to live in a wooden house and eat raw food. This is completely retro.We now understand that people in the past were very healthy and long-lived. One was living in a wooden house and the other was eating natural fruits. We knew that vegetarian food was very nutritious and healthy.In the past, our ancestors were vegetarians and lived in wooden houses. You see, the Suiren made fire by drilling wood, and the Chaos made wood into nests, which meant that they used wood to make houses.Nowadays, most people live in wooden houses for their health. According to these evidences, we are vegetarian now and must be very healthy and nutritious.
Buddhism talks about the reason for eating vegetarian food, not to live hundreds of years, but a kind of compassion and equality.We do not eat the flesh of sentient beings because sentient beings are future Buddhas and future Bodhisattvas. This is the first truth.The second truth is that everyone has life. We must love our own life and respect other people’s lives.The third is based on the principle of cause and effect in three lifetimes.Based on these principles, we have understood why we should eat vegetarian food. This is a cause and what is the cause?It is the cause of Bodhi and the correct cause. If you do things based on this cause, the consequences will be immeasurable.If you don’t have this right cause to eat vegetarian food, although good deeds will still be rewarded, it will be reduced a lot.
Not only is Buddhism, but also worldly Dharma.Whether it is an official, a businessman, a medical practitioner, a scholar, or even a military person, we should review our thoughts. Why should we be a doctor?Why do you need to engage in politics?Why do you need to run a building?Why do you need to run a business?Why study knowledge?If you examine this mind, if the mind is correct, then what you do now is immeasurable merit, and now you are practicing the Bodhisattva's practice.If this mind is not right, then what we do will not only have no merit, but also have delusions and create evil karma.This is not only true in society, but also for us practitioners.Why do we become monks?Why practice?This concept must be correct.If this concept is not correct, even if it is a monk and practice, it will not have merit. How can I say it?I am now stimulated to become a monk to escape debts. These concepts are wrong. If the cause is not true, and if the result is tortured, I will not get the great benefits of becoming a monk.
The same is true for chanting scriptures.Why recite scriptures?Why meditate?We need to understand this concept.There are also many people in society who recite scriptures and meditate. Is it meritorious?It may not necessarily have merit.Not only does it have no merit, it also brings some troubles to yourself.Why?For example, when chanting sutras, there is a so-called chanting group in society. When someone dies, he asks him to chant sutras. After chanting sutras, he still has to bargain. Just like trading, he treats Buddhist scriptures as doing business and doing business. In our Buddhism, this is called selling the Tathagata. Not only does it have no merit, but it also suffers.It is also Buddhism, reciting scriptures is a good thing, so why does it turn into a sin?It’s because of this incorrect thought!The same goes for us to meditate.Meditation can help you understand the mind and nature, practice concentration and wisdom, and achieve meditation. There are many people in society who come to meditate. They are not based on this view, but think: if I come to meditate, I may gain supernatural powers, if I come to meditate, the Bodhisattva will come to talk to me, and may be able to understand a card of enlightenment. If I meditate, I may get crazy, which is really true.I have something to ask for when meditating. I hope the Bodhisattva will tell you that someone’s three-life cause and effect will ensure that you will have problems. Therefore, this mind is very subtle and has a right mind. It is always good deeds and light at all times;This kind of mind is not right, and you may not be able to get blessings if you do things.
For example, when a person engaged in politics participates in an election, what is his intention?If you are compassionate to elect, for the sake of the country, society, and for our Taiwan, so that everyone can be stable, and your career and family can be guaranteed, and you can engage in a politics of compassion, equality, and love for the people, the bigger the official position, the better, and now you are a Bodhisattva!Because of social status, you can do more things. What is this not the Bodhisattva’s practice?If you don’t understand this principle and just want to expand your own election, it will be nothing more than fame, wealth, wealth, and sex. It will be bad. Not only will you lose your fame, but you will also fall into the evil path in the future. Therefore, the difference between this thought is very, very subtle, and a slight difference will be a thousand miles away.In our Buddhism, the three realms are only the mind, all dharmas are only the consciousness, and there is nothing else in practicing. It depends on how to adjust your mind?How to use our mind?How to calm down?How to purify your mind?Which one is bright?Which one is dark?What should be done?What should not be done?Buddhism tells us these principles.
Our mind is like a mirror, without any dust or dirt, like a pool of water, without any thoughts of delusion, and is always in concentration and wisdom, with concentration and wisdom. This is Buddhism.Once you truly reach this level, your mind has concentration and wisdom. As it is generally said, everything you want and your mind is blessed, your study will definitely be successful and your career will definitely be successful.At this time, the mind is connected to the Dharma Realm, and the mind is calm, and there is wisdom in the mind. When the mind moves, it will be induced. If we have not reached this level, our mind will never be able to induced.Because the mind is distracted, confused, drowsy, and confused, you will have nightmares when you sleep at night, and you will be drowsy during the day and can’t judge anything clearly. Where can you feel any response?
So what is the relationship between eating vegetarian food and practicing Buddhism?The relationship is very deep!Whether it is the Mahayana sutra or the Hinayana sutra, it is said that you should eat vegetarian food.Many people have not figured out the Dharma and talked randomly to expand themselves, which has harmed many people who really want to practice and learn Buddhism, causing those who have the intention to go on the wrong path. Therefore, we can give these principles very simple and concisely so that everyone who wants to practice and learn Buddhism can go on the right path. First of all, we must have compassion.The first thing to develop compassion is to not kill, the second thing to save lives, and the third thing to eat vegetarian food.This is how you temper yourself and train yourself in your daily life, and finally reach true compassion and equality, and your mind will be pure and liberated.
Buddhism is the most real truth. One point is to get one point, and one point is to get ten points. Therefore, eating vegetarian food is really closely related to our practice and learning Buddhism.The first thing in Buddhism is to have blessings. The generation of blessings requires precepts.What should be done?What should not be done?Eating vegetarian food is a good thing and is also very good for our health.From a medical point of view, eating vegetarian food will reduce hypertension, reduce a lot of cancer, and reduce a lot of diseases in the body.Our Buddhism does not eat vegetarian food from this point of view, but is entirely based on compassion. Therefore, we hope that everyone, whether they want to improve themselves, make themselves healthy, or want to increase wisdom, blessings, or compassion, should practice and study Buddhism.If you want to practice and study Buddhism, the first fundamental requirement is to slowly develop our correct knowledge and views. The first step is to slowly get used to eating three pure meats, eat three pure meats, and then eat five pure meats, never kill, save lives, and then eat vegetarian food. This way, you will make great progress in studying Buddhism.
Therefore, eating vegetarian food is closely related to learning Buddhism, and it is also closely related to our own physical health, our blessings, our wisdom, and our concentration. I hope that each of us will have such an understanding.I believe that wise people will definitely observe and care for themselves. Where can I love them?We must take care of the cause and not seek it from the result. Sowing the cause will lead to the result. What causes we sow will lead to the result in the future. If we want to go to a higher level in our practice and study Buddhism, we must work hard in this direction.
