Chapter 142: Committing Sins!
There’s a cruel truth a boy has always been unwilling to speak; actually, eating vegetarian food means eating living things. After plants are picked, they don’t die as quickly as animals; those invisible microorganisms are still active.
Meat, compared to plants, spoils incredibly fast. Whether you buy it directly or slaughter it fresh, you’re actually eating a corpse…
Eating too much meat causes a strange smell on the body, which ordinary people find difficult to detect.
The boy was reluctant to tell this truth for fear of confusing certain cultivators. Even breathing and drinking water involves a host of invisible life forms.
When animals are alive and near humans, their spirits are very similar to humans. The spirit of plants, however, is generally difficult for ordinary people to perceive, but he can.
The spirit of plants is extremely simple and has less influence on humans than meat, which is why vegetarianism is promoted.
The original meaning of eating vegetarian was not about eating plant-based foods, but about eating simply. Like those who now claim to be cultivators and eat vegetarian, they have over ten dishes in one meal, stir-fried in all sorts of ways, with various flavors. How is that vegetarian? Isn’t that still desire?
You make a whole pile of dishes, preparing them in different ways over and over, what kind of vegetarianism is that? And think about how many living beings die from pesticides when those vegetables are planted, and how many insect eggs are harbored within them?
It’s just that the impact on the spirit is slightly less than eating meat.
True vegetarianism means eating simply, for example, stir-frying dishes with only salt, or a few seasonings, without too many miscellaneous things. Or, when eating, only have a few dishes and don’t make so many.
Because the human stomach is like a large furnace, where sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, soft, and hard things are thrown in to be refined. Cells are busy absorbing this and that, and also have to sort and distribute. This nutrient goes there, that nutrient goes there. Throwing in a bunch of messy things will definitely affect the body.
If you keep it simple, with just a few green vegetables, or a combination of three meats and seven vegetarian dishes, or even one meat and one vegetarian dish, or one meat and two vegetarian dishes. Their work won’t be so tiring.
Otherwise, if they get too busy, people start to get sick, have stomach aches, and so on. They don’t even understand this basic point…
Sometimes the boy pays attention to this, sometimes he doesn’t. No matter how he eats, even if he gets a stomach ache, he doesn’t feel uncomfortable when he goes to the bathroom. This is because he is refining those spirits, absorbing them into his body, cultivating with them, or, you could say, transcending them.
Others can’t do it, others don’t understand. When they get diarrhea, their buttocks hurt terribly and bleed, and the pain lasts for a long time and doesn’t get better. Cough, cough.
So what you eat is actually not important at all; the key is in the heart, at the root.
Thinking that green vegetables taste good, smell good, and you want to eat them, is the same as thinking meat tastes good and you want to eat it.
It’s just that the impact on the body is different. Some lamas specifically cultivate by eating meat, and early Buddhism also involved eating meat.
Chinese Buddhism changed to vegetarianism because an emperor became a monk and made the change. Cultivation is in the heart, not in external appearances. Otherwise, where would the saying “exorcise demons and protect the Way” come from? Aren’t demons also living beings?
Furthermore, Chan Buddhism is not the original form of Buddhism; it is something derived from the combination of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
Regarding some monks nowadays, the boy really can’t say anything, or rather, some people who claim to cultivate and talk about cultivation nowadays, he can’t say anything either.
There is a very famous dialogue in Buddhism that completely explains the current situation.
Before the Buddha entered Nirvana, Mara the demon king said to the Buddha, “After you enter Nirvana, I will definitely destroy your Buddhist Dharma.”
The Buddha replied, “How will you destroy my teachings? The Buddhist Dharma is the righteous method; no force can destroy it. My temples are spread all over the world, and my disciples wearing kashayas are as numerous as trees in a forest.”
The demon king said, “I will spend two thousand five hundred years destroying your teachings and Dharma. I will have my demonic sons and grandsons wear your kashayas, enter your temples, preach my demonic words, corrupt your monks, and wherever you are, I will be there, until my descendants are everywhere.”
The Buddha said, “Then you will not be able to do anything to me. At that time, my true disciples will take off their kashayas, put on everyday clothes, and go into the world. At that time, the mortal world will become temples, families will become practice grounds, and temples will become prisons for your demonic sons and grandsons.”
This statement is not just about some people who appear to be cultivators outwardly going astray; it is more about some people’s hearts going astray.
What you wear doesn’t matter, where you are doesn’t matter, the key is in the heart~!
Some people, in order to enlighten others, teach them to become monks. This leads to families being broken up, abandoning their homes, abandoning their children, what a sin.
Becoming a monk has always referred to becoming a monk in the heart, not in this physical body. Talking about emptiness or forms, from my perspective, doesn’t everything disappear directly? This is simply fools teaching fools and producing a group of big fools.
Some nuns, before becoming monks, abandoned their own children, sold their houses to donate money. Later, when they wanted to see their children, the children didn’t recognize them. How much of a scam is that?
They haven’t even become proper human beings yet, and all day long they dream of attaining Buddhahood. The first thing Buddha requires is compassion for all beings. You abandon your own children, aren’t children also sentient beings? To have such a cruel disposition and still want to cultivate Buddhism? Cultivate your grandmother’s grandson!
And then they brainwash people with talk of “Buddha is unfeeling yet sentient,” saying that Buddha is unfeeling towards his family but compassionate towards all beings. Aren’t family members also sentient beings? Damn it all!
“Unfeeling yet sentient” doesn’t mean abandoning one’s family at all. Unfeeling means understanding the birth and death of sentient beings, and their karmic encounters, without being attached to any life or death, and without being attached to the comings and goings of others. Live in the present, benefit all beings, do not blame Heaven above, and do not worry about others below.
And then there’s talk about suffering for sentient beings. Suffering for sentient beings, suffering for your father’s buttocks? Are you working to support sentient beings? Or what are you doing to support sentient beings?
Tricking sentient beings into reciting sutras for them is nonsense! Reciting sutras refers to the experience of thoughts; what you’re doing is just reading.
Aren’t all sentient beings supporting you? You enjoy leisure, have food and drink, worship stones, and put on a show!
Those who haven’t even seen their original heart yet fall into Buddha-aspects and become possessed by demons.
People like this, if they want to attain Buddhahood, can at most cultivate into a human-form Buddha, but cannot cultivate into a true Buddha. They cultivate their whole lives in vain.
Reading a pile of scriptures, only knowing they are good, but not understanding what they are talking about, not grasping the cultivation methods. What’s the use of reading so much?
Stupidity, a shaved head, working from dawn till dusk, all for nothing.
Buddhist scriptures, Buddhist scriptures, are originally records of the experience of attaining Buddhahood.
Buddha is originally enlightenment, but they don’t know what enlightenment is. They just stick their butts out and read scriptures, attaching their thoughts to them, thinking they will receive great fortune.
Merely seeking Buddhahood is itself a desire.
Humans are originally Buddhas, just sleeping Buddhas. They blindly seek externally, blindly deceive, and blindly cultivate chaotically.
This has led to people today misinterpreting Buddhist Dharma, mocking it as something that deceives people, wealth, and sex. They mock Buddhist Dharma for not only failing to help people but also causing them to abandon their families.
If I hadn’t woken up early, these sons of bitches might have continued to deceive people indefinitely.
On one hand, they say “all is empty,” and on the other hand, they buy the most expensive kashaya, and when buying tea, they pick the best and reject the rest.
If they truly had cultivation, their desires would be even heavier.
