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素食的意义

WHY VEGETARIAN?

On the surface, it seems that eating meat should not cause much concern. But that is not the case after careful consideration. It in fact hurts oneself as well as other beings. With this in mind, we must resolve to do right for all concerned.

所以，在不考虑的时候，觉得吃肉没有什么，但仔细想一想、了解一下，才知道吃肉伤害了别的生命，也伤害了自己。我们一定要在这个问题上作取舍。

Although Vajrayana requires its practitioners to accept five meats and five nectars as part of the practice，beginners must stay away from them and use instead visualization or some herbal medicine as substitutes. If not，plainly eating meat and drinking alcohol will create huge demonic obstacles to one’s practice. What does it mean by demonic obstacle? On hearing this term, many people instantly picture a human or non-human being with eyes, ears, multiple heads and hands. These actually are just petty demons. The king of demons that would obstruct our practice is none other than the habit of eating meat. Such is the view of Vajrayana. So who says that eating meat is permissible with Vajrayana?

密宗里面还讲到：五肉五甘露虽然是学密人要接受的，但对于初学的人来说，则根本不能接触这些东西，而是要用观想或一些药物代替。如果不这样，而是去吃啊、喝啊，这实际上是修法上一个很大的魔障。什么叫魔障？一提到这个词，很多人就认为是有眼睛、耳朵、很多头和手的人或非人，其实这只是小小的魔。魔王是什么？障碍修行的没有其他什么魔王，说到底，吃肉就是魔障。这些就是密宗里讲的，所以，密宗哪里开许吃肉了？！

【中英文连载】—— 《The Right View》(148)

Depending on each person’s own condition and capacity，all of us should at least try to be vegetarian from now on. The length of time to stay vegetarian is a personal decision, but the longer the better. Our motivation though should be different from that of the non-Buddhists whose primary concerns are mostly health related rather than considerations for the future life or compassion for other sentient beings. We will not only stop eating meat but should also vow not to eat meat ever again. Absent the vow, simply stop eating meat would not be deemed a virtuous deed on its own. The vow should go like this, “By the merit of quitting meat now, may I never eat meat again in all future lives. If I were to be reborn as an animal, I would hope to be an herbivore, never a carnivore.” With this, even if we should end up in the animal realm, we would not eat meat and not hurt any beings, including ourselves.

根据我们现在的能力和条件，就应当吃素。但我们吃素不能像其他不学佛的人那样，只是考虑自己的健康，没有考虑来世，没有考虑慈悲。我们吃素时，一定要发愿不再吃肉，时间长短由自己定，越长越好，不发愿就不能成为善事。还要这样发愿：我们现在吃素，以此功德愿我们以后生生世世不要吃肉。如果我做了动物，也要做一个草食动物，不要做肉食动物。这样即使下一世堕落为旁生，也不会吃肉，既不会伤害他人，也不会伤害自己。

Most of the monastics in China have kept the long tradition of being vegetarian. We rejoice in their virtue and praise their upholding the tradition. Hopefully, both the lay and the ordained practitioners of Vajrayana will also carry on this good practice.

内地从古至今，大多数出家人都吃素，对此，我们也非常随喜和赞叹。所以，内地学密的居士和出家人应该继续吃素，这是很好的。

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