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10/12: Eating Flesh : Pros and Cons
By the Venerable Master Hsuan HuaThe Tao is near but people seek afar.
Things are easy, but people seek what's difficult.
People who study the Buddhadharma shouldn't hurt for bargains. That is what worldly people do they're always looking for the easy way out. But people who study the Buddhadharma should act in exactly the opposite way. Don't always be looking for a bargain. The more you try to get off easy, the bigger will be the loss you take. What kind of big loss will you take? You will make mistakes in cause and effect and thereby fall into the hells.
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03/12: Quote by Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol
Feeling unbearable compassion for all animals in the world who are killed for food, I went back before the Jowo Rinpoche [a great statue of the Buddha in Lhasa], prostrated myself, and made this vow: From today on, I give up the negative act that is eating the flesh of beings...zlyrica Buddhist Quotes |
03/12: Dhammapada Verse 270
By harming living beings one is not a 'Noble' man, by lack of harm to all that live one is called a 'Noble One'
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03/12: Dhammapada Verse 131-132
Whoever harms with force those desiring happiness, as seeker after happiness one gains no futher joy.
Whoever doesn't harms with force those desiring happiness, as seeker after happiness one then gains futher joy.
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03/12: Dhammapada Verse 130
All tremble at violence, life is dear to all. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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03/12: Dhammapada Verse 129
All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.
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03/12: Dhammapada Verse 15
Here one grieves, one grieves hereafter, in both wise does the evil-doer grieve; one grieves and is afflicted, one's own base kammas seeing.
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03/12: The Brahma Net Sutra
Chapter 6 : The Forty-eight Secondary Precepts
3. On Eating Meat
A disciple of the Buddha must not deliberately eat meat. He should not eat the flesh of any sentient being. The meat-eater forfeits the seed of Great Compassion, severs the seed of the Buddha Nature and causes [animals and transcendental] beings to avoid him. Those who do so are guilty of countless offenses. Therefore, Bodhisattvas should not eat the flesh of any sentient beings whatsoever. If instead, he deliberately eats meat, he commits a secondary offense.
Translated by the Buddhist Text Translation Society in USA
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03/12: On Not Eating Meat
By the Siksha-SamuccayaJust so must he support himself by the physic that is always useful: but even then not with fish or flesh, because it is forbidden in the Lankavatara Sutra. For thus it is said: "No flesh must be eaten; so I say to the pitiful Bodhisattva ... Because of kinship, because of its wrong, because it is produced by semen and uterine blood, the devotee should avoid flesh as improper for living creatures. The devotee should always avoid flesh, onions, intoxicants of different kinds, garlic of all sorts. He should avoid oil for anointing; he should not sleep on beds with hollow posts or holes or where there is danger for living creatures.
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03/12: On Stopping Killing!
By Great Master Lianchi Zhuhung 1535-1615People who eat meat often make the excuse that it is natural to do so, that people were meant to eat meat. They promote this idea, and then freely indulge in taking the lives of their fellow creatures, thereby creating extensive hatred and enmity-karma.
Over time, as their killing and consuming becomes a habit, meat eaters no longer feel their killing is unusual. They do their evil deeds unknowingly, unaware of the consequences of slaughter and the resentment it evokes.
As somebody in the past said, “It is a cause for tears and sobbing, for wails and cries, for deep regrets, and mournful cries.”
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02/12: The Early Buddhist Tradition and Ethics
By Lambert SchmithausenThe Status of Animals
Still, even against this attempt to establish ecological ethics on the intramundane level, one serious objection can be raised: the objection that the positive evaluation, in the “hermit strand”, of (wild/intact) nature as an ambiance might seem to have, more or less, lost sight of suffering in nature. The more so since in many canonical texts, and mostly in those which may be characterized as rational discourse, animals and existence as an animal are so negatively evaluated that efforts to preserve them appear highly problematic.
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02/12: The Horror of Taking Lives and Eating Meat
By the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua
(Venerable Master Hua' s Talks on Dharma, vol. 9, pp. 165-175)
The mere use of such names as “vegetarian chicken” and “vegetarian duck” plants seeds of defilement.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Liang dynasty, when Buddhism flourished in China, people would always invite monks to recite Sutras at weddings and funerals. Times have changed, and now monks are invited to recite Sutras only at funerals. No one asks them to recite Sutras at weddings or baby showers. Actually, this is wrong. Whether it is an occasion for rejoicing or mourning, left-home people should be asked to recite Sutras and transfer the merit, on the one hand to save the deceased, and on the other to increase the blessings of the living.
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02/12: Song of Advice for Giving Up the Eating of Meat
By Nyala Pema DuddulWhen I think about the suffering that meat-eating brings,
I can not bear it and I feel pain and anguish in my heart.
Om mani padme hum hrih!
Out of emptiness and compassion, you are the one who guides beings,
Noble Avalokiteshvara, to you I pay homage.
Without having trained in love and compassion myself,
I ate the flesh of my mothers whilst lecturing about cause and effect.
Without realizing the absolute, I wandered on the path of empty words.
I, the parrot-like beggar of White Rock,
Practised austerities and “extracting the essence.”
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01/12: Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra : On the Four Aspects
Chapter 7 – 3rd to 5th Paragraph
“O Kasyapa! What is ”complying well and discussing“? For example, a person comes and puts a question to the Buddha-World-Honoured One: ”How can I be a great danapati [giver], not throwing my money away?“ The Buddha says: ”Should there be any sramana, Brahmin, or any person who seeks to posess [but] little and is fully contented and will not accept or store any impure things, give such a person a maid or servant. To one who practises pure actions, give him the lust of a female, and to one who does not drink [alcohol] or eat meat, give drink and meat; to one who does not take meals after noon, give him a meal after noon; to one who does not use flowers and incense, give flowers and incense. Such donations give rise to rumour and the fame will fill the world. Not a penny is spent. This is “complying well and discussing.”
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29/11: Lankavatara Sutra : On Meat-eating
Chapter 8
{244}*1 At that time Mahamati the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva asked the Blessed One in verse and again made a request, saying: Pray tell me, Blessed One, Tathagata, Arhat, Fully-Enlightened One regarding the merit and vice of meat-eating; thereby I and other Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas of the present and future may teach the Dharma to make those beings abandon their greed for meat, who, under the influence of the habit-energy belonging to the carnivorous existence, strongly crave meat-food. These meat-eaters thus abandoning their desire for [its] taste will seek the Dharma for their food and enjoyment, and, regarding all beings with love as if they were an only child, will cherish great compassion towards them. Cherishing [great compassion], they will discipline themselves at the stages of Bodhisattvahood and will quickly be awakened in supreme enlightenment; or staying a while at the stage of Sravakahood(i)*2 and Pratyekabuddhahood, they will finally reach the highest stage of Tathagatahood.
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