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《The Right View》(142)
WHY VEGETARIAN?
素食的意义
The ways those accomplished practitioners used to deliver sentient beings from samsara are sometimes beyond imagination. It is described in The Words of My Perfect Teacher that when Naropa found Tilopa, Tilopa was neither reading nor meditating，but eating fish. He had built a big fire and put a bucket of live fish beside it. He roasted and ate the fish one by one. For someone like Tilopa，the appearance of eating fish was in essence an act of delivering the fish from cyclic suffering. Eating, in Tilopa’s case, should not be interpreted purely in the literal sense of the word; whereas in our case, eating is simply eating, not delivering anyone from any suffering. The two are completely different.
这些高僧大德度化众生的方法是不可思议的。《普贤上师言教》里讲过，那洛巴去找帝诺巴上师的时候，帝诺巴不是在看书，也不是在打坐，他在吃鱼！他烧了很大一堆火，旁边放了一盆活鱼，抓一条到火里，烧熟了就吃。但人家是在度，不是在吃；而我们只是在吃，不是在度啊！这完全不一样！
Moreover，whether a meat eater or a vegetarian will be reborn in the hell realm or in Pure Land really does not concern us at all as we will not be reborn with them. One only reaps what one sows. Sowing the seeds of virtue begets virtuous fruit, while the seeds of non-virtue produce the bitter fruit of suffering. In general, regardless of what other practitioners want to eat, meat or no meat, we should just check ourselves if we have attained the same accomplishment as those respectable masters. Comparison with others is really nothing but a futile exercise.
再说，其他人吃肉或吃素，他们堕落到地狱时我们也不会去地狱,他们往生净土时和我们也没有关系。所以，每个人都是自作自受，自己行善得善报、造恶得恶果。总之，其他人吃肉也好，不吃也好，我们只要看自己有没有这样的能力，不要去和别人比，比是没有用的。
The third fault related to meat eating is the most dreadful and also the reason why I became vegetarian. I used to eat meat. My thinking went like this: I am an ordinary person who has not even started the path of accumulation, but have received many Buddhist teachings and am fully aware that meat eaters will cycle through the six realms. Surely, the animal realm will be unavoidable. At that point, eating meat and taking lives will invariably be the norm. Consequently, many lives may be taken in just one day resulting in continuous rebirth in the lower realms for eons to come. Now one may consider not eating meat a kind of sacrifice when in fact it constitutes not one bit of sacrifice at all. If the aim is to strengthen the body, many things will suffice other than eating meat; the palate too can be easily taken care of. What I thought then was not that I did not like to, but dared not, eat meat. Hopefully, everyone will give some serious thought to this reasoning.
第三点是最可怕的，也是我吃素的主要原因。我以前是吃肉的，但我只是一个凡夫中的凡夫，资粮道都不是。我学了那么多佛法，也很清楚这样的人要在六道里流转，哪一道都要去，旁生道肯定也要去，那时一定会吃肉，会杀生。一天中要杀掉那么多生命，堕落下去长劫难复。现在我们认为不吃肉是损失，而实际上并没有什么损失。补身体还有许多其他的办法，满足口腹之欲也很好解决。当时我就是这样想的，不是不想吃肉，而是不敢吃肉。对于这个问题，每个人都应该认真想一想。
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