Those who chant Buddha’s name should eat vegetarian food for a long time.If you cannot, you should hold six or ten fasts.Only by gradually decreasing or even permanently breaking is reasonable.Even if you have not stopped meat, you should buy fresh meat and do not kill animals at home.I always wish for good luck in my family. If I kill animals every day, my family will become a killing place.The killing scene is where the resentful ghosts gather, and it is unlucky and great.It is advisable to be cautious about killing at home.
This paragraph says "If you are kind and do not kill, you will eat vegetarian food and recite the Buddha's name."
This passage of teaching is very plain, but it is not easy to implement.
During his lifetime of spreading the Dharma, Master Yin felt very sad to see such a fact, that is, manyPracticeLearn BuddhismHe knows a lot about people, but he can't keep up with them in his actions.So many things are done verbally and spend their whole life in vain.Buddhism needs to be practiced, not just spoken verbally. If you have one practice, you can develop one.wisdom,Treat atrouble。
People who chant Buddha's name should eat vegetarian food for a long time, so why should they eat vegetarian food for a long time?
Because the method of reciting the Buddha's name is Mahayana Buddhism, one can cultivate the Bodhisattva path and achieve Buddhahood.
So what is the seed of becoming a Buddha?
It is compassion and great compassion.
In order to cultivate compassion, we must think about all the flying and moving sea, land, air and airAll living beingsThey all have Buddha nature, which is different from our body (the body is different, but the body nature is the same, and they all have Buddha nature). The current genetics have also found that the genes of these animals are not much different from those of humans.So with compassioncause,We must eat vegetarian food for a long time and not harm sentient beings.
We must think that all living beings, who have lived and died, have been our parents, brothers,couple、Friends are parents to each otherchildrelationship.
These animals have fallen into this path because of a single thought of ignorance.We now obtain human body by relying on the minor goodness of our previous life and the power of our precepts. Our life form is higher than it, so we have the responsibility and obligation to protect it and not bully the weak with the strong.In order to follow the principles of the animal kingdom, we must eat vegetarian food.
Generally speaking, when we talk about releasing animals, it only conveys compassion through this form.The fundamental method is to eat vegetarian food. Eating vegetarian food means not giving up.If you eat vegetarian food, you will not eat meat. These butchers, hunters, and slaughterhouses will naturally have no market.Without this need, he would not capture or massacre.
If you are still eating meat, he will definitely catch and slaughter.Therefore, there are some butchers in society who regard slaughtering pigs as a profession to make money to support their families.
In ancient times, the butchers believed in some cause and effect. They often pressed the pig's head and pulled the pig's ears before killing the pig, and wanted to say four words to the pig: "Pig, pig, don't blame me, you are a dish on earth.He doesn't eat, I won't kill, you ask for debts from the meat eaters."It means: Don't ask me for debts, because others want to eat. I have no choice. I will kill you, and you ask for debts from the meat eaters.After he said that he would kill him, he could not shirk his responsibilities. Both those who kill pigs and those who eat meat must share the responsibility for killing.
In this life, you kill this pig as a human being. The pig's karma has been rewarded and it may become human in the next life. If you commit many sins in this life, you will become a pig in the next life, so you will become a pig in the next life, and then you will become a pig in the next life.It is like you kill me, I kill you, killing each other for generations. This is a relationship.
Therefore, in this life we must eliminate the vicious cycle of killing karma and stop killing them.Moreover, the wars in the world are all caused by killing.Sometimes there is an accident in a place and a group of people die for no reason. It seems accidental, but there is a reason in it.If a person wants to kill another person, he is inexplicably aware of it. He will have the intention to kill when he sees him. This is the effect of killing karma in his heart.
If a person who eats vegetarian food has no killing karma, it means that he will be kind to him and will not kill him when he encounters evil beasts and insects.So this is also the mutual response of evil karma. If you don’t have evil karma, you will not encounter this.Although it is in the midst of war, there are other karma in common karma.So in this way, we protect other lives, not kill them or eat them, but in fact, ultimately protecting ourselves.
Eating vegetarian food contains profound knowledge and is one of the root causes of harmony and happiness in the universe and life.
Organisms form a biological chain and coexist with each other. If many species are reduced sharply in the biological chain, it will definitely be detrimental to humans.
Now we see: With the pollution of the environment and the imbalance of the ecology, various earth organisms have decreased dramatically.Our plague is increasing.The original bacteria are stored in the animals in the forest. It has formed a harmonious coexistence relationship with those animals during the long-term rheology process. Those animals are resistant to bacteria and do not harm it.But if humans kill, exterminate and eat these animals, once this species is cut off, the bacteria that originally exist in it will be transferred to the human body.Since the human body is unfamiliar with it, has no defense and cannot coexist, all kinds of strange diseases will arise.
The killing karma of sentient beings is too heavy now. In order to covet the desire to eat anything, even babies dare to eat it, which is said to be a great replenishment.It's so ridiculous!
The species on this earth need us to protect, and protecting species means protecting humans.
When we eat vegetarian food, we must control ourselves in our behavior, and more importantly, we must eliminate this kind of greedy desire in our mindset.
If you keep eliminating, what will happen?There are many practitioners who have been practicing for the rest of their lives and are just vegetarians. When they are dying, they will not be able to do so.He wants to eat chicken and meat, and this idea is very strong, and it won’t work if you don’t satisfy him.These are all karma, which means that his desire to be greedy for his mouth has not yet been eliminated, and he is still hidden in his heart.Therefore, we must truly cultivate the seed of compassion by eating vegetarian food.
A person who eats vegetarian food will have an essential improvement in his entire life and psychological quality.
All the Buddhists here should have experienced it. It turns out that eating meat is nutritious and delicious, but what does it feel after eating meat?He is not clear-headed, has many diseases, is irritable and has a strong desire.Because what you eat is like, you will have dog sex when you eat dog meat, and you will have dog sex when you eat beef.If you eat a lot of pigs, cows, chickens, and ducks all your life, think about it, although you are a person, all the meat is the meat of animals. Where will he go in the next life and which path he senses, there is no need to ask people.
Why do people sometimes cause animal attacks?After eating so much animal meat, his body and heart are full of birds and beasts. His hatred will be very great and unreasonable.Worldly disputes and wars broke out, and then they evolved into war disasters.
Then a vegetarian will have a very peaceful mentality. If you have a clear mind and few desires, you can develop wisdom. On the contrary, if you have too many desires, you will be confused.Therefore, if one recites sutras and chants Buddha with a pure heart and few desires, he will understand the true meaning of Tathagata. People who eat meat are dizzy. When they read these Buddhist scriptures, they will not understand the things of the saints, just like reading the heavenly books.As a vegetarian, as he is clear about his heart and desires, his demand for living consumption will decrease, and he will feel that the pressure of survival will not be too great.Eating vegetarianism has improved and relaxed his life in all aspects and relieved him of many worries.
In this era, survival resources are becoming increasingly scarce, and all countries are advocating for saving, and China is also advocating for a saving society.Western countries also feel that the resources of the entire human race are becoming increasingly scarce, and that all human beings on earth need to save resources.The earth's resources are limited and human desires are endless. When resources become increasingly scarce, sentient beings will suffer.In order to compete for resources, war will inevitably arise.Therefore, from the perspective of eating vegetarian food for a long time, it has immeasurable positive value for the stability, long-term stability of the entire society and world peace.In fact, it is also the most precious wealth that Buddhism contributes to all mankind.
Eat vegetarian food for a long time, all Buddhasjoy,Long Tian supports it.If you eat big fish and meat every day, the good god will leave you, especially sometimes when you eat too cruelly, we dare not watch: if you eat hot pot, you have to eat living things - sea, land and air.The fish was on the table, and the fish's tail was still jumping!He thinks it is a delicious dish. Do you think it can be eaten?Then I am also ashamed to say here. I was eating these before I studied Buddhism and thought these things were really delicious.Alas, it’s very strange, it will change. It turns out that when you eat meat, you will think the meat is very delicious. After you really eat vegetarian food, you will try to re-watch the taste. It turns out that the taste is very smelly and stinks!At this time, I will think: Why do I still think that is very fragrant?Why do you feel so smelly now?Don’t say I’ll buy such a smelly thing, I don’t want it if you give it to me!It turns out that our hearts will change our view of things.Our thoughts that these meats are very smelly, which means that we have a little pure mind by eating vegetarian food and chanting Buddha's name. In contrast, it turns out that it is filthy.Therefore, eating vegetarian food is a principle for those who recite the Buddha's name.
But Master Yin is also very compassionate to those who cannot eat vegetarian food.It is indeed difficult for many people to eat vegetarian food for a long time.He is used to eating meat, and he cannot eat without eating meat. In addition, he is suffering from some of the world.Concept(Many concepts now say: if you don’t eat meat, you will not be nutritious and malnutrition). If he accepts this concept, he will really feel that eating vegetarian food is boring and exhausted.
So this is all determined by one's own thoughts.If you can't overcome this idea and really can't eat vegetarian food for a long time, then proceed step by step.Start from the six or ten fasting days.The six fasting days are: the eighth, fourteenth, fifteenth, twenty-threeth, twenty-ninth, and thirtyth, which are the six fasting days.
Why is it called the Six Day?
This is the four heavenly kings and the prince of the four heavenly kings will inspect Southern Jambudvipa during these six days, observe the good and evil situation of the people in the world, and report it to Indra.Indra will treat him according to the good and evil situation of the world.destinyDo a calculation of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.Therefore, we should try our best to do more good deeds and practice more during these six fasting days, which will be beneficial to our blessings and wisdom.
The ten fasting days are the first, eighteen, twenty-four, and twenty-eighth days, which is called the ten fasting days.If the month is small, just push forward for one day, it will be either thirty or twenty-nine or twenty-eight. These are ten and six.
Then, there are three Ramadans in a year, which are common sense in Buddhism and are very useful to us.
How did these three Ramadans come about in the first month, May and September?
There is a mirror in the palace of the Trayastrimsa Heavenly King. This mirror rotates around Mount Sumeru. On the first lunar month, May, and September, this mirror is facing us in the south of Jambudvipa. Therefore, every move and behavior of the sentient beings in the south of Jambudvipa is clearly revealed in that mirror.So you have to eat vegetarian food for these three months and do all kinds of thingsMerit。
The great masters of the ancestors also taught that it is better to avoid these fasting days and Ramadans as much as possible, so it is necessary to remember these days.This is called gradual progress - gradually reducing. If you start eating on the sixth and tenth fasting days, and from the third month of Ramadan, you will slowly leave the taste of those meats when you are on track.
vegetarian dietThere are many benefits. Eating vegetarian food will not only make your body and mind very relaxed, but even if you have any gastrointestinal problems, you can also solve them by eating vegetarian food.Moreover, eating vegetarian food is also beneficial to health, because vegetarian food is a photosynthesis reaction and receives the longest exposure time of sunlight and has the most energy and calories.
On the contrary, those meats are very dark things. Pigs grow up in a very dark place every day. In addition, in this era, raising pigs is no longer like the traditional social pig farming methods. Nowadays, pig feeds are added with a lot of additives and hormones. In addition, since sentient beings like to eat lean meat, there is also a feed with clenbuterol added. This clenbuterol is poisonous. Eating it by the elderly will increase coronary heart disease, and teenagers will suffer serious damage when they eat it.
Last time I met an entrepreneur who specializes in pig feed, and I asked: Did you add anything to this feed?He said there was no way, even though I was a Buddhist, I had no way, so I had to add it.Now that there is so many people, everyone wants to eat it. It turns out that a pig grows in ten months, but now a pig grows in four months, so it needs to be eaten.
Look, the disease comes from the mouth, and we eat up many toxins in the pork. Moreover, when slaughtering pigs and sheep, the pig's struggle, anger, and hatred secreted into toxins and penetrated into the meat.
There is a more cruel way to slaughter now - killing pigs, killing dogs, or killing chickens, and letting other pigs and dogs see the scene of killing, they will become more afraid and more afraid, and secrete more toxins.
So the classic says: This era is an era of drinking bitterness and eating poison, and that is true.
Nowadays, rivers, lakes and sea water are polluted, so eating fish is not safe.The nuclear technology developed by many countries is pouring into the sea, and the radiation of these nuclear waste is sucked into the body by many aquatic species such as fish and shrimp in the sea. These fish and shrimp are salvaged and eaten, and they can be eaten into the body as soon as they are eaten.
Why are there more and more strange diseases among sentient beings now? Many of them are artificially created.The deterioration of the ecological environment is one of the important reasons for the surge in diseases of our beings.Including the radiation of those magnetic fields nowadays, they are very harmful.Now we listen every day MP3、MP4, This causes great damage to the ear roots.Therefore, we must gradually achieve permanent cessation.
Of course, in this era, vegetables will also be toxic - pesticides and fertilizers. But compared to meat, it is easier to deal with. If you soak it more, it will be much better.Such a diet is the legitimate way of eating for practitioners of pure karma and a reasonable way of eating.
If everyone consumes high and has a very high desire, our earth will be so overwhelmed.As parents who are kind to us, the earth can meet all our needs for survival, but cannot satisfy human greed.Our greed is too strong now, and our desires are unsatisfactory.So oneBuddhistWe must set an example and pursue a rational lifestyle - not pursue high consumption or luxury life, but also integrate the Buddhist tradition of cherishing blessings and frugality into our lives.This is reasonable.Rationalization is also an important element in reflecting civilization.
The above is about how to eat vegetarian food step by step.If the problem cannot be solved by gradual progress and you have to eat meat completely, then wait and don’t kill it at home and buy ready-made ones.
Every family hopes that five blessings come to their doors and that good luck will come. If you kill sheep, pigs, and chickens at home every day, your home will become a slaughterhouse.A slaughterhouse is where all the resentful ghosts gather. If these resentful ghosts arrive at your home, then your home will be uneasy. People are prone to illness and unlucky, and there will be no auspicious atmosphere.Therefore, it is extremely unlucky!
Therefore, don't kill at home.
So, when you see that Master Yin’s teachings are all about the machine.
If you have the highest level of wisdom, you will be cut off immediately and eat a long-term vegetarian diet;
You will gradually decrease and even break forever when the middle root is;
Even if the lower root cannot be separated from meat, at least do not kill at home.
Then this kind of teaching is very flexible and space-friendly, not so rigid.For those with higher roots, you must eat vegetarian food;For many people with middle and lower aids and habits who have particularly strong afflictions, there should also be some methods of guiding them in a row.Therefore, these methods of Master Yin’s teachings and teachings to all living beings are also worth learning.
Principle 7: End-of-life chanting
Those who recite the Buddha's name should advise their parents to chant the Buddha's name and seek rebirth in the West.However, if your parents decide to be reborn in the West at the end of their lives, they must preach to their relatives to chant at the end of their lives, and to arrange things blindly and cry.Therefore, if parents want their parents to receive the benefits of chanting with their families at the time of death and not to be harmed by destroying their mindfulness, they must not be able to recite the benefits of chanting the Buddha's name in their daily lives, so that they can always recite it.This will not only benefit parents, but also benefit the current family and descendants.When chanting at the end of life, no matter how old or young you are, you should do so.If you read "The Purpose of the End" in detail, you will know it.
This paragraph talks about teachings about chanting at the end of life.
For those who recite the Buddha's name, their great filial piety is manifested in advising their parents to be reborn in the Western Paradise.
Since ancient times, these monks and great monks who have become monks and lay monks have set good examples for us.
There was a Zen master in the Song Dynasty named Zen Master Zongzi. After he became a monk, only his mother was still alive, so he welcomed his mother to the temple to live for a long time.His mother was not very used to living in a temple at first, and she always wanted to go back to her hometown, so Zen Master Zongze advised her to chant the Buddha's name.She always can't continue to recite (ordinary people may not be able to recite the Buddha's name once they are chanting Buddha's name), and often misses her son.In order to make her chant Buddha's name wholeheartedly, Zen Master Zongze avoided his mother who had not seen him for a long time, so he asked her to chant. After two or three years, his mother slowly chanted the Buddha's name.After chanting the Buddha's name, she found peace of mind and fulfillment and happiness in life, and lived in the temple for seven or eight years.Finally, with the help of Zen Master Zongzi, he predicted that the time had come and passed away with a smile.Zen Master Zongze was the abbot of that temple, so as a monk and a monk, Zen Master Zongze set an example for everyone.
Zen Master Zongze himself is also particularly confident in the method of chanting Buddha's name.After his mother passed away, he set up a Lotus Victory Club, just like a Buddhist group in ours, and everyone volunteered to participate.The main purpose is to chant the Buddha's name in a specified number per day (reciting more than 10,000 Buddha's name a day). He has a form to register.Then everyone gathered and had regular gatherings.The purpose of chanting Buddha's name is to seek rebirth in the Western Pure Land, and lotus is a symbol of the Western Pure Land.He had this thought and organized such a group of Buddhist chanting.What's the result?One night I dreamed that a man in his thirties, wearing a white dress and a blue-black headscarf, came over and said, "The mage formed the Lotus Victory Club, and I also want to sign up for it. Is that okay?"Zen Master Zongze said, "Okay, I'll welcome you if you sign up. What's your name?"He said, "My name is Puhui."Zen Master Zongze wrote down this: Universal Hui.Just after writing it down, the Puhui man said to him again: "My brother Samantabhadra will also participate.” He also recorded Samantabhadra.well!He suddenly woke up and felt that the scene was still very clear. He asked the elders and learned that Samantabhadra and Puhui were originally two great bodhisattvas in the "Avatamsaka Sutra".
The establishment of this Lotus Success Society was praised by the two Bodhisattvas, Samantabhadra and Puhui, who were the Bodhisattvas of Huayan, which shows how great the merits of chanting Buddha’s name are.
So, now we have already chanted the Buddha's name, and we must use all kinds of skillful means to let our parents also develop the faith in chanting the Buddha's name.If parents want to make their parents confident in their death decisions and be reborn in the Western Paradise, they must also pay attention to the behavior of their relatives and relatives around them in accordance with the law and do not cause obstacles to their parents.
For example: At home, you are just one of the members of your children, as well as your brother, sister, aunt, etc. When your parents die, these people will come to help. Among these people, who can speak the most convinced?Among these people, there may be Catholic, Christian, and Islamic people, and their faith is different.This time we were in Singapore, a lay Buddhist’s father happened to be reborn. The fellow practitioners from the lay Buddhist community asked if we could go and help chant.As a result, the family members notified: There is no need for chanting, we must handle the funeral in accordance with Taoist methods.Then his layman is the third child at home, and he can't make a decision!In addition, there are some who help out the bad things. When the person dies, he will change his clothes immediately and cry loudly, just like that.
These are extremely unfavorable to the deceased, so you should understand some methods of chanting at the end of life.You should know what the deceased is like when he is dying. Once you move his body, even though he dies, his spiritual consciousness remains on his body. Once you move him, he still feels pain. Whenever he feels pain, he will feel hatred. Once this hatred comes, it may go to the three evil realms, or become a big python.
Therefore, there is a principle for chanting at the end of life. If he dies, don’t touch him. It will take at least eight hours.If you are chanting, don’t stop the Buddha’s name in these eight hours, and then deal with these things in eight hours.
As for crying, it's even more unstoppable.Originally, people are reluctant to part with family members. When family members cry next to him, they will feel nostalgic and love.When this mind comes, it will not be liberated from birth and death.
It is said that there is a couple who study Buddhism and the relationship between husband and wife is very good.When the husband was dying, his wife cried beside him. Although the husband usually wanted to be reborn in the Western Paradise, he was reluctant to leave in the face of his wife's sorrow and crying.Where did he go all of a sudden?He died, and his wife cried there with tears in her nose. When she blew her nose down, there was a worm inside her nose, and her wife wanted to throw the worm off.At this time, there was a monk who hadSupernatural powersYes, say you, "Be careful, this worm is your husband."You are sad and painful, and your husband is so reluctant to leave you that he becomes a worm in your nostril.”
Therefore, when parents are dying, it is like climbing a mountain. If someone can push them, they will go up;Someone pulled him down and he fell down.This thought is very, very critical when you die. All family members and other people must not cry.
When he dies, he must always keep his mindfulness.
The relationship between family members is very complicated now. In order to avoid some disputes, can we make an agreement before he gets sick and ask him to sign in person: Who will leave my funeral to deal with, and deal with it according to the method of chanting Buddhist chanting at the end of life?
If his children are Buddhists, he can give them to him with confidence, or trust a chanting group or chanting group, then entrust the chanting group to solve this problem.If you give him the right to deal with his funeral, you will not be fooled by people around you at the end of your life and destroy your mindfulness.
In normal times, we must explain these things clearly to family and relatives. It is best that all children and relatives can chant the Buddha's name. If he is a Buddhist, it will be easier for him to chant the Buddha's name.On the contrary, it will be troublesome to maintain dying mindfulness.
Therefore, we should usually advise our children to recite the name of Amitabha Buddha frequently. If we can encourage family members in this way, it will not only benefit parents, but will also greatly help and benefit these current family members, and will also benefit future generations.
In his infinite light, there is a light that is to see the Buddha. As long as you recite the name of Amitabha sincerely, you can see Amitabha through this light at the end of your life.That is, the display of the nineteenth vow: "Wish to lead the way at the end of death".We must use our sincere heart to communicate with Amitabha Buddha to come and guide him. As long as Amitabha Buddha appears, all problems will be easily solved.With the blessing of Amitabha Buddha's light, all internal and external obstacles can be solved.
So, the Western medical community is also paying attention to the issue of hospice care, especially for patients with terminal illnesses and cancer.People are greedy for life and fear of death.We have a misconception: if you get cancer, especially those with advanced cancer, it is obviously impossible to treat. If you cannot cure diseases, you will still lose everything. Spend a lot of money to treat it. If you put tubes all over your body, it will actually never solve the problem.This is not good for all aspects, so when Western hospice care sees this, he can terminate the treatment and consider how to care about his spirit and emotions.
But he only stayed at the spiritual level and could not give the patient the ultimate peace of mind and belonging. The belonging here refers to the question of where he went after his death.
Pure Land Dharma,It provides the ultimate concept for hospice care - as long as you believe in Amitabha, you will get great peace, great comfort and great freedom.If you have this confidence, then recite this name again. This is the best hospice care and the best painkiller.
Many advanced cancer patients are really painful when they are seriously ill. They may need to take a shot of morphine for an hour to solve the pain problem.However, if you fight too much, the coma and reversal of his spiritual consciousness will also intensify, which is actually a very bad thing.If he concentrates on the Buddha's name at this time and his family and relatives will also chant it for him, this name can solve his pain.Because there is infinite light in the name, he can reveal infinite light, and his own mind light appears, and he transcends the pain.Because there is something that is not painful at the moment, and he reveals his painless nature through his name, and he transcends pain.
This also shows that in mainland China, patients with advanced liver cancer are already very painful, because they recite the Buddha's name wholeheartedly, and they transcend the pain and leave the world very peacefully.
Therefore, as our children’s hospice care for our parents, we must first consider the surrounding relationships and relieve obstacles for our parents to help them maintain mindfulness.This is a special Buddhist ceremony for a child to perform great filial piety for his parents, and it is also a successful Buddhist ceremony for a sentient being to be reborn in the Western Pure Land and become a Buddha.You can look at this point in "The Purpose of the End of the End" and the "Three Important Essences of the Death" written by Master Yin. The precautions for chanting - how to take shifts and how to raise the mindfulness of the deceased. These have some methods, including teachings and what contents are taught.You can go and take a look.
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