Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "The moral orientation of rebirth and compassion will inevitably lead to the action of abstaining from killing and releasing life. "The Illustrated Illustration of Induction" pointed out: "Compassion is good, and the art of releasing life is also the art of cultivating compassion", "The merit of releasing life is boundless, and the rich do not hesitate to spend money." The cold man must love things, and first hold the precepts to kill the noble heart." "Taishang Treasure Raft Diagram" said: "Small things should be protected, and insects should also be relieved of hidden gold." The newborn grass and trees are cut and broken, and the toes are sent to him in the year. ”

Xuan Chu thought to himself, is the master afraid that I will ask my sister Yuhua about it again, so he will change the topic first?

Xuan Chu said: "The Taoist scriptures all affirm the necessity and moral value of treating all things with one voice, and recognize that all life in the universe has its own value and should be valued and protected, just like human life. In the view of Taoism, respecting life and treating all things well is the best embodiment of the universal virtues of the Dao itself, and it is also the foundation of being a human being and the necessity of cultivating the Tao. ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "To protect animals is to protect human beings; Protected animals will also treat humans well. ”

"The famous physicist Stephen Hawking once warned all mankind that 'after the extinction of animals, it will be the turn of man." This is a sentence that he said with deep feelings after reading the research report released by the World Foundation for the Protection of Endangered Organisms, but why do many people not understand this truth!

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "Be kind to all things, be kind to all things, and be kind to life." Taoism regards animals and plants as spiritual, and believes that all life in the natural world should be treated with the same compassion for human life. Heaven is good, and the act of killing sentient beings is against the will of Heaven. The early Taoist classic "Taiping Sutra" believes that "the way of heaven is evil and good to live, and the genus of peristalsis is known, and there is no light killing." "That is, the little creatures that squirm are sentient and cannot be easily killed."

Chu said: "I thought that only Buddhism did not allow killing ......"

Zhong Liquan said with a smile: "Don't kill, don't abuse animals, it's an important precept of Taoism. The "Ten Precepts of the First Truth" admonishes Taoist priests not to kill Hansheng in order to fill the taste, to practice kindness, and insects. "Lao Jun Says One Hundred and Eighty Precepts" stipulates: "Do not step on the six animals, do not fish and hunt and hurt sentient beings, do not dig in the ground in winter to hide insects, do not go up to trees to explore the nest and break the eggs, do not frighten birds and beasts, and if people kill birds, beasts, fish, etc., they are not allowed to eat." Hurting life and killing for the sake of people's own well-being, and basing human happiness on animal suffering, is what Taoism firmly opposes. ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "The third volume of "Taishang Lingbao Chaotian Apology and Great Confession" discusses in detail what the wicked people did in the last days: they either kill sheep, donkeys, horses, pigs and birds, or kill muntjac, leopards, wild beasts, etc., or kill magpies, doves, birds, birds, etc., or kill insects, snakes, bees, scorpions, ants, etc., or kill fish, turtles, fish, shrimps, water insects, etc., or kill dung beetles, moths, moths, etc., etc., it can really be described as a killing opportunity, and all things suffer. Its methods are also very vicious, or flying eagles and dogs, spreading nets; or set fire to the mountains, and exhaust the forests; or hold a bow, arrow, sword, and staff, rub your hands and feet, and sit and lie down; or through the pit unearthed, broken fence as an obstacle; or caesarean section and broken eggs, hot soup splashed on the ground; or cut off their heads and feet, and strip them of their fur; or fry on a fierce fire, boiling soup and boiling; or give birth to a molecular mother and cut off its fetal germ; or fix the root of life, so that it may perish forever. ”

All these evil deeds, killing countless living beings, are deeply sinful, "long killing, doing all kinds of cruelty, not thinking of mercy, killing the hair." "If you do this kind of evil, you will be retribution, and you will fall into the Nine Hells after death." ”

Zhong Liquan said with a smile: "It is recorded in the Taoist book that there is a person surnamed Fan in Zhenjiang, whose wife is suffering from tuberculosis and is in critical condition, and the doctor asked his husband to buy hundreds of small finches to treat them with mixed medicine. His wife said, "I can't bear to kill a hundred birds to save my life, and I'd rather die than do it." So they were released from the cage. Soon his wife's illness was cured and she gave birth to a son, which people said was a kind retribution. The act of rescuing animals is providential and must be rewarded. As the Taoist book says: always practice compassion, mercy to all, release life and overcome evil, its merit is very heavy, so that people can see that the world is safe and secure, the sick are healthy, and the poor are blessed, and they act from the heart. There are many contents in the Taoist persuasion book to persuade human beings to love animals, respect the right of animals to live, and promote the morality of treating people to the animal kingdom. ”

Chu Chu said, "Ah! A hundred lives, who have these little sparrows offended! ”

Zhong Liquan said with a smile: "Twenty-nine of the few hundred words in the "Induction Chapter" involve the natural world. For example, "accumulating merit and merit, compassion for things", can not "shoot away and drive away, and sting and frightened; Filling holes and covering nests, injuring fetuses and breaking eggs", "cutting for no reason, cooking and slaughtering incivilly", "burying Gu and hating people, killing trees with medicine", "killing turtles and snakes for no reason" and other taboos and "insects, plants and trees should not be injured" and other taboos and regulations. Breaking these rules will not escape the punishment of the gods. "Yin Qi Wen" has stories such as "the choice of the champion in saving ants, burying snakes and enjoying the glory of the prime minister" and other good retribution for treating animals. The official account of the Han Heavenly Master's Mansion encourages people to "help the fish in an emergency, and save the danger like a bird in Miro." People are advised not to climb mountains and net birds and birds, not to poison fish and shrimp near the water, not to slaughter cattle, "or buy things and release them, or fasting and abstain from killing." Walk often to see insects and ants, ban fire and do not burn the mountains and forests. "The True Scripture of the Awakening World" has the creed of "abstaining from killing and releasing life". ”

"Hey, the book not only promotes animal protection, it also encourages people to implement these principles in their daily lives," he said. ”

Lu Dongbin said with a smile: "Taoist merit is such a highly operational good book, which has very detailed regulations on the good and evil of people's treatment of animals. The earliest "Taiwei Xianjun Meritorious Qualifications" stipulates:

Saving animals that have the power to repay people, one life is ten merits; Saving animals that are unable to repay people is eight merits. Ants and moths are born and the like, and one life is one work. …… Burying the dead, animals, birds, six animals, etc., one life is one work. If you bury the bones of birds and beasts, six animals and sixteen catties, it is a work.

harming the lives of all sentient beings and beasts is ten transgressions; Harm and not death are the five transgressions; The intention is to do harm. …… harming people and six animals, one life is ten times. The sickness is five transgressions; Acting with the intention of harming is too much......

It can be seen that the Book of Good classifies and records the good and evil behaviors of people towards animals in detail. ”

Zhong Liquan said with a smile: "Looking at the major religions, Taoism must have a very high value for life. In the Taoist scriptures, whenever life is discussed, concepts such as "noble life" and "rebirth" are mentioned. In Taoism, the wealth of human beings is not judged by the number of gold, silver and jewelry, but by the prosperity of life and the number of species in nature. There is the "Law on Distinguishing the Rich and the Poor" in the Taiping Sutra, which clearly points out that the so-called "rich" refers to the fact that all things are prepared, life is exhausted, and species continue to develop without end. It says that in the time of the Emperor, more than 12,000 kinds of objects were born and were called abundance. In the time of the Emperor, the number of species decreased slightly, and there were less than 12,000 species, so it was a small poverty. ”