Chapter 733: My Future Mother-in-law
All people have to go out and make connections, even Shakyamuni Buddha himself can't avoid it.
Are there any exceptions? Absolutely!
If there is a sick person today and he can't go out, then you have to give him some of the food.
All of them! It's not who makes the food, who eats it, it's not like that.
Instead, everyone poured the food together and divided it.
Therefore, you can eat whatever you can. There is no such thing as not eating meat. But from the time of Emperor Wu of Liang, all the monks did not eat meat.
According to the five precepts of Buddhism, there are five precepts of not killing, and there is no such thing as not eating meat! Anyone who knows the five precepts knows that the five precepts are killing, stealing, fornication, delusion, and drinking. Have you ever stopped eating meat? Of course not.
Is it okay to eat meat, and lay people at home can eat three pure meats. The so-called "three pure meats" refer to not killing for oneself, not killing oneself, and not hearing miserable cries when killing.
Of course, if you have been studying Buddhism at home for a long time and are eating three pure meats, others may laugh at you. So it's better not to eat it.
In addition, eating meat does not have any benefits for the body.
Why? As we all know, in today's meat, no matter what kind of animal, it is fed animal feed.
In the past, it took at least a year or two for a pig to go from a piglet to being slaughtered. Now, in less than half a year, this piglet has grown up. The reason why it is so fast is because of the hormones in the animal's feed.
Animal feed contains a lot of hormones, some of which can make animals grow faster, some can make animals not lay eggs, and some make animals only grow lean meat and not fat. It is completely in accordance with the requirements of the market.
So people don't eat meat, but hormones, poisons. You say, can you eat so much poison without getting sick? It's impossible not to get sick. In today's society, people have diseases of one kind or another. It's all about killing and eating meat.
According to doctors, the vegetarian food eaten by a person can be excreted from the body in a day's stomach, while the meat eaten can be excreted in at least a week. You say, "Think about it for a week." It's what a piece of meat will become in a week if you put it in a high temperature of 367 degrees. You say, the toxin produced by the flesh in this week has been absorbed by the body, how can a person not get sick? On the other hand, people who kill are more likely to get sick. Why, because all sentient beings are greedy for life and afraid of death.
To use a less apt analogy. Like a person, some people, if you scold him, he can hate you for as long as he wants. What's more, if you kill it, why when you kill it, it doesn't retaliate, because it has no way to fight back.
If it can fight back, it will definitely take revenge on you. But when it dies, it's different, it's dead, and its spirit isn't dead. It will take revenge on you, but your luck is more vigorous, it can't get close to you, and when your luck fails, it has to take revenge on you. So in some places, there is such a slip of the tongue.
"Pigs come to pigs, don't blame you, you are a dish in the world, if he doesn't eat it, I won't slaughter it, you have to collect debts and come to the eater." This is what butchers who kill pigs say in some places. Why did he say this, it was just to avoid responsibility, do you think this responsibility can be shirked?
Therefore, life is never dared to kill. Not to mention that animals can't be killed, even when plants are about to be cut down, especially on trees with thick bowls, there are spirits and ghosts living on the trees. Therefore, before cutting down, the parasitic spirits on this tree must be notified. Generally, it is told to him three days in advance to let him move.
Otherwise, something will definitely happen. There are a lot of car accidents and the like nowadays, all of which are manipulated by ghosts. This is something to know.
"Is it better to believe in Jesus or to believe in Buddhism?" My future mother-in-law asked.
She asked this question, in fact, it was easy to answer, and it was easy to answer, and it was not easy to answer.
Ordinary people and believers will definitely consider their own beliefs, but how does the contemporary Pure Land Master Pure Sky answer this question?
I told her what I was thinking.
"Master Pure Space said that no matter what is good, it is better than unbelief, because people will have some bottom line when they do things, and they will not do anything without a bottom line. This is completely different abroad and at home.
When she was a new student, her teacher would ask him what kind of faith he had. No matter what the belief is, her teacher says yes, if you don't have faith, then the teacher says there is something wrong with the child. In China, on the contrary, in China, those who study Buddhism are called superstitions.
Why it is called superstition, I think it has a lot to do with people's level of understanding.
Because Buddhism is polytheistic. There is Guanyin Bodhisattva again, and there is Lafayette and the like.
"So how long have you been studying Buddhism? Why believe in Buddhism? Miao Miao's mother asked.
"Actually, after I went to university, I started working, and when I left, I was working as an education consultant in a training institution in Xi'an, and this education consultant, which sounds so good, is actually a sales course job. I joined this flat in 2012, and when I first entered, I didn't know where his house was, and it must be in danger of going bankrupt.
Because our wages can no longer be paid, although in this case, our principal does not say it explicitly, but you will only delay the time of the road closure, from the original salary on the fifteenth of the month to the twentieth of each month, and then postponed to the thirtieth, and in the end it will not be paid.
At that time, because I had just been working, I didn't have any extra money in my hand, so I borrowed money from a colleague in one of our units. My colleague didn't know if it was because he didn't bring money at the time, or because of some other reason, so he didn't lend me the money, or if he recommended me to a senior brother named Kong Peng. Seriously, how could I be so cheeky at that time and didn't know anything about this senior brother of Kong Peng, and he actually believed me.
In this way, our relationship is familiar.
One day I asked him, "I said I heard that you believe in Buddhism, but isn't that a believer in Buddhism superstitious?" ”
He said, "All the statements are made up by Shakyamuni who said that he had entered deep meditation and saw it, not by writers or other people. Let's put it this way! Have you ever heard of the Four Meditations and Eight Determinations? Without waiting for my answer, he continued, "This is much higher than the four meditations and eight meditations in the world." So it's not superstition. If you think it's superstition, it's a misunderstanding of what Shakyamuni said. Another thing is that Shakyamuni Buddha does not speak. For this reason, he also specially formulated some precepts, such as four of the five precepts. No lies, no double-tongues, no bad mouths, no gossip. ”
This senior brother of mine Kong Peng actually said so.