你的选择决定你的未来
《The Right View》（140）
【中英文连载】
WHY VEGETARIAN?
》《素食的意义》
Being humans now, we have the ability to discriminate right from wrong and to make choices. We are well aware of the faults related to eating meat and can also afford not to eat meat. Yet we do not or are unwilling to make the right choice. If and when we do take rebirth as animals, we will: 1. want to eat meat and meat alone, regardless of how delicious fruit and vegetables may taste; 2. not know the faults of eating meat; 3. not have the ability to choose. There will be no way we can avoid being carnivores by then. If we choose to be meat eaters when we can be otherwise, being carnivores in the animal realm would just be a natural outcome.
我们现在是人，有取舍和选择的能力，而且明明知道肉食不好，也有条件不吃肉（特别在内地，条件很好）。在这样的情况下，我们却不知取舍和选择，那么等到投生做旁生时就必然会：第一，再好吃的瓜果蔬菜，也不愿意吃，只知道吃肉；第二，不知道吃肉的过失；第三，没有抉择的能力。所以，那时肯定会吃肉。我们生而为人，在知道取舍时都要选择吃肉，那么做旁生时吃肉也就很正常了。
The Buddha clearly told us that meat eaters would become carnivores such as lion, tiger, and leopard if they were to descend to the animal realm. This can be inferred through logic as well. In the animal realm, there are only two categories of food: meat or non-meat (vegetables, fruits and nuts). At that point, because of the deeply ingrained tendency to eat meat (habitual tendencies can wield great power), meat eaters will become carnivores who can only kill to survive. It is stated in the Abhidharma-kosha-shastra that there are three types of killing—killing born of greed，delusion and anger. To kill for food is one born of greed.
佛很清楚地告诉我们，吃肉的人下一世会变成狮子、老虎、豹子等肉食动物。用逻辑推理这个说法也能成立。假如堕落为旁生，食物只有两大类：肉类和蔬果类。那时，因为我们浓厚的吃肉习气（习气是非常厉害的），就会做肉食动物，就会为了填饱自己的肚子去杀害生命。《俱舍论》里讲，杀生有三种：贪心杀生、痴心杀生和嗔心杀生。这样的杀生叫做以贪心杀生。
We have all watched on Animal World (film series) how many lives some carnivores need to eat within a 24-hour period. For example, the blue whale，the largest known animal species in the world, can eat up to four tons of krill each day during the feeding season. And these are just one day’s provisions. A life eaten is a life taken and a negative karma fully committed. Over its entire life，the blue whale never once would chant the Buddha’s name or practice virtue. If it lives to be a hundred, it will have committed such negative karma for one hundred years. Can you imagine what will happen to it in its next life?
在《动物世界》里我们都看过，肉食动物在二十四小时里要吃掉多少生命。如蓝鲸，它是目前世界上发现的最大动物，它吃的是很小的磷虾。一头蓝鲸一个晚上可以吃掉四吨磷虾，就是八千斤，这只是它一天的食物。每吃掉一条生命都是杀生，都有杀生的罪过，而且这个罪过是非常完整的。在它的一生中不会念一句佛号，也不会起一个善念，如果它活一百岁，则在一百年中都是这样造业，那它的下一世会是怎样的呢？
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