As a disciple of the Buddha, how do you deal with meat?

Amitabha

Cultivate yourself according to the Dharma, don't eat meat, don't kill. The precepts are for oneself, not for others, to demand from others, to measure others.

If the family does not listen to the persuasion, they will fix themselves, and sooner or later they will be moved to become vegetarians.

Even if you take the bodhisattva vows, you can cook the dishes of the three pure meats for your family.

The old master --- sentient beings are attached separately, and the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas are not separated and attached. Only by following the discriminating attachment of sentient beings can the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas be able to teach them. For example, if you study Buddhism and eat vegetarian food, and you see your family eating meat dishes, you become enemies with your family, how can you survive your family?

How could your family possibly believe in Buddhism? Your family is not a vegetarian, you have trouble with him every day, you say that he is making a business, of course he is uncomfortable, how can he not object?

Ask, "After taking the bodhisattva vows at home, is it the same as cooking meat dishes?" ”

The old mage repliedYes, because there are still some people in the family who can't be vegetarians, and you serve them, I think there is no problem.

The family members who study Buddhism cannot interfere with eating meat, Buddhism pays attention to all fate, eating meat or taboo is regarded as fate, as long as the person who studies Buddhism does not eat, does not do, and does not kill.

The three net meat should have three conditions:

Clause. 1. Killing without seeing is not seeing with your own eyes, that is, not seeing with your own eyes the miserable scene of animals dying;

Clause. 2. Killing without hearing the sound of animals being killed;

Clause. 3. Don't kill for yourself, that is, don't kill for what you want to eat.

For example, if you go to the market and see a vendor killing chickens or fish, or if the seller tells you that it is freshly slaughtered meat, this does not meet the above conditions. For example, when they go to the homes of relatives and friends, they specially kill chickens and ducks for hospitality, that is, let sentient beings be killed for themselves, which is not the three pure meats. People who are not completely vegetarian can eat this meat temporarily, or go to the street to buy ready-made meat from slaughtered livestock and poultry.

I don't think you eat meat when you practice Buddhism. It's the merit of compassion, and the Dharma mainly says that we sentient beings just don't have compassion, so the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas let us cultivate, and if you have compassion, I believe you will cultivate better and better, Amitabha.

Marvel with joy.

Eating meat sets evil cause and effect, and you will get sick from old age in this life. All the creatures you see are related to you, most of them are relatives of the deceased, and it is not good to be killed and eaten. Increasing compassion and other monastic aids. The main thing is to cut off the evil cause and effect of eating meat.

Well said—

In order to "have compassion for all living beings", he decided to "stop eating meat"!

Dare to ask - what about the general public who raise pigs, chickens, ducks and fish?

What about the general public who sell pigs, chickens, ducks and fish?

What about their parents who are living after them?

What about the babies waiting to be fed behind them?

This so-called "goodness" that does not care about the gains and losses of others, and the beautiful name of "for the sake of compassion for all sentient beings", is actually a justifiable "evil"! ...

Not eating meat for merit is to seek merit.

Worship the Buddha with a purpose, the Buddha can be seen, and you can see it in your own heart.

The Buddha saves all sentient beings, not to achieve the delusion of one person.

The meaning of compassion is deep, and it is not just the meaning of superficial kindness and compassion. Compassion and joy are self-directed merits. If you can understand it, the merit is immeasurable. If you can't understand it, it belongs to the worldly good causes, and it doesn't belong to the scope of merit.

Although it is confirmed that the demand curve arises naturally from the theory of consumer choice, the derivation of the demand curve itself is not a theory that proposes consumer behavior. Simply determining how people react to change doesn't require a rigorous analytical framework. However, consumer choice theory is extremely useful.

As we will illustrate in the next section, we can use this theory to more deeply determine the factors that determine family behavior.

Instant Answer Draw budget constraint lines and indifference curves for Pepsi and pizza. Illustrate what happens to the budget constraint line and consumer optimum when pizza** rises. Use your graph to divide this change into income effects and substitution effects.

Four applications. Now that we've established the basic theory of consumer choice, we can now use it to illustrate four questions about how the economy works. However, since each problem involves family decision-making, we can address these issues with the consumer behavior model we just proposed.

Are all demand curves sloping to the bottom right?

In general, when an item** goes up, people buy less. Chapter 4 refers to this normal behavior as the law of demand. This pattern manifests itself in the demand curve sloping to the lower right.

However, as far as economic theory is concerned, the demand curve also sometimes slopes to the upper right. In other words, consumers sometimes defy the law of demand and buy more when one item rises. To illustrate how this can happen, look at Figure 21-12.

In this example, the consumer buys two items – meat and potatoes. Initially, the consumer budget constraint line was a straight line from A to B. The best advantage is c.

When the potato ** rises, the budget constraint line moves inward and is now a straight line from A to D. Now the best thing is e. It is important to note that the rise in potatoes has led consumers to buy more potatoes.

Buddhism's vegetarian diet is not to eat meat, "meat" refers to the "five xin", onions, garlic, leeks, heads, Xingqu, will affect people's physiology, raw food is easy to get angry, cooked food to increase hormones, there is a great damage to the practice, therefore, the five Xin Buddhism is fasting. "Fishy" is meat, this is what ordinary people call "meat food", Buddhism does not eat meat, it is compassion. Buddhism teaches us that eating meat is the root of war.

Therefore, Buddhists do not eat meat in order to reduce and eliminate war. War is retribution for injustice, all acts of killing are retribution, and eating meat is also retribution. If people can cut off meat, it is to break off past grievances and revenge.

This is the cultivation of fearless generosity, the merits are immeasurable, the future results are incredible, and the good retribution of health and longevity is naturally not a problem. To cut off meat, you have to cut it out of your heart. If you don't eat meat on the surface, but when you see meat, you still have the idea of eating it in your heart, and there is no essential difference between actually eating it.

Because the Buddha told us that everything is created by the mind, and there are delusions in the mind and separate attachments, this is karma. Therefore, to quit meat, it is the key to quit from the heart.

It is okay to quit eating meat by yourself, and the family wants meat, and it is okay to eat meat side dishes. The key is that you don't have delusions in your heart, just cling to each other, and make a good example of learning Buddhism for your family. If you study Buddhism, you can't get any oil on vegetarian dishes, not even pots and chopsticks, your family will definitely be disgusted with Buddhism, so how can you lead your family to learn Buddhism?

Therefore, if you live alone, your diet must not be fishy. If you live with your family, you don't have to be demanding, you can eat meat and side dishes, and you must not be tempted in your heart, so that your family can see the joy, so that you can lead them into Buddhism. When we study Buddhism, we should not only benefit ourselves, but also benefit others.

If you can't be altruistic, then the decision won't be self-serving. When we study Buddhism, we should not only make ourselves happy, but also those around us. Therefore, when studying Buddhism, we must broaden our hearts and truly develop great compassion!

There are many more similar questions, why do people smoke? Why drink tea? Why drink alcohol?

Drinking alcohol can also be said to promote blood circulation, and smoking can be said to be harmful and not beneficial, but why do people who smoke still flock to it? Similarly, Is eating meat just for the sake of the body's nutrition? It is estimated that it is almost impossible to say that eating meat is for nutrition and good health, if you only eat meat for the purpose of physical health, for such people, there is no difference between eating meat and vegetarianism, both are just to maintain the operation of the body.

However, the vast majority of people eat meat because they are greedy for the taste that vegetarian food does not have. That's where greed comes in. Moreover, it is recorded in the Buddhist scriptures that the 84,000 insects in the body, all over the body, muscles, bones, and blood, suck and parasitize, and if the host often eats and likes to eat the taste of a certain thing, there is a kind of insect called the tasteworm will gradually get used to the habit of liking the same taste.

Therefore, sometimes people will involuntarily scratch their hearts as if they can't control their desire to eat meat, and sometimes this is the effect of taste-loving insects. The human body and mind influence each other and are in harmony with each other. Sometimes the heart turns with the body, such as drunk, the wine is in the body, and the heart is relaxed, so some people walk staggeringly, and say that they are not drunk, but the heart turns with the body.

Sometimes it's just a matter of moving with your heart. For example, if you stand on the edge of a cliff and are afraid, your legs will go weak and tremble. But if you don't know that you're standing on the edge of a cliff when you're blindfolded, your body won't react.

The same is true of eating meat, sometimes it is the desire of the human heart, and sometimes it is the effect of the parasite of the body. As for the claim that the body needs nutrients, there is basically none. It's not that people are malnourished and their health is bad if they don't eat meat.

If the monks don't eat meat, they suffer less from physical diseases.

Buddhism says that you should not eat meat, because eating meat is killing, destroying life, and showing unkindness, and those who eat meat have no relationship with the Buddha. Another point of view is that the meat you eat may be the meat of your parents, because it may be the reincarnation of your parents, so you should never eat it. Later, according to the living conditions of lay people, Buddhist students proposed that they could eat "three pure meats," namely:

Don't kill for me; I don't kill; You can eat the meat that you don't want to kill. In other words, the meat you eat is not specially slaughtered by others, you don't kill animals, you don't watch animals being killed, and this kind of meat can be eaten.

Even if eating too much meat makes people energetic, eating spicy foods such as onions and garlic can also easily arouse impulses. But a cultivated person tries not to eat or eat too little of this kind of food.

Those who study Buddhism take these foods as a precept, and they understand that life in the world has feelings, but there is a difference between more and less, and that killing and eating the flesh of living beings does not have the wisdom and compassion of human beings. Moreover, if you commit a murderous precept, you have to pay it back yourself, and the killing karma created by the whole society will evolve into human wars, widespread epidemics, and natural disasters. These are also confirmed in today's society.

Amitabha

Those who hold the Buddha's vows are called Buddhists.

Master Di Shen gave a lecture on taking refuge and taking vows.

Good knowledge, after the Buddha is extinguished, the precepts are taken as teachers, the Buddhists are judged by the precepts, the people who hold the precepts of the Buddha are called Buddhists, those who hold the first precepts are the laymen of the first precepts, the people of the two precepts are the laymen of the two precepts, and those who take the 28 precepts are the laymen of the twenty-eight precepts, etc.; Those who hold the full novice vows are called ordained novices; Those who hold the bodhisattva vows, novice vows, and bhikshu vows are called the teachers of Buddhism. If you don't hold a precept, you can't call yourself a layman, and you can't call yourself a Buddha. If a bhikshu does not take the precepts, he is a sin and a monk who is responsible for the destruction of the Dharma.

Good knowledge, the precepts of Buddhism are not divided into sects, and all Buddhist sects and sects are based on precepts and precepts; If you do not hold the forbidden precepts to call the Buddhists, such as weighing rice with dung. In the last days of Buddhism, due to the abolition of the precepts, all kinds of evil demons and foreign ways have arisen, and they talk about the good Dharma, but in fact, they deceive the public by falsely doing good deeds. It is a felony to falsely say the Buddha, exercise the Buddha, defile the Buddha, and kill the Buddha.

If it is a sinner, it is also called a Buddhist person everywhere, and there are also a number of followers of the disciples, who are instructed by Yusi, and all of them are called the supreme way, because of the common karma of many sins, they can be convinced and deceived by the divine power in fate. Good knowledge should be known, and Buddhism does not judge by supernatural powers, but only by precepts. If someone can say that there is no fault in the 12 Buddhist scriptures of the Three Tibets, and if they are not enlightened and do not hold the precepts of the Buddha, they will become hells, evil ghosts, and animals, and they will become depraved by karma, and the six tribulations of reincarnation will have a period.

Good knowledge, the Buddha remembers the precepts of the Buddha, defiles the Buddha, slanders the Buddha, destroys the Buddha, and sometimes hell is done for the sake of it.

Good knowledge, the bodhisattva at home is not allowed to live with the women, let alone the novice bhikshus.

Good knowledge, the last days of Buddhism are abandoned because of the Buddha's vows, hundreds of demons hinder the way, and all kinds of heresies and heresies are blazing in the world. Don't be fooled. Good knowledge, the Buddha's wisdom and compassion in the world, and the strict purification of Vini is the Buddha's great responsibility.

Good knowledge, the truth is deep in the last days of the Dharma, in order to destroy evil demons and deceive sentient beings, so live in the world to preach the Dharma, those who hear it should take refuge, and those who take refuge will be free from suffering.