Do All Buddha Dharma Learners Need to Be Vegetarians？學佛修行人都要吃素食嗎

學佛修行的人都要吃素食嗎

Do All Buddha Dharma Learners Need to Be Vegetarians?

問

學佛修行的人都要吃素食嗎？醫生說，常年吃素營養會跟不上，戒不掉吃肉怎麼辦？

Question

Do all Buddha Dharma learners need to be vegetarians? Doctors advise that perennial vegetarian diet will lead to malnutrition. What if I can』t quit eating meat?

答

學佛是一個過程，明理起信，依見而修。是否要吃素食，修行者應視自己的修學環境、修學階段、修行境界且權衡利弊而取捨。

Answer:

Answer: Studying Buddhism is a process in which we should build our belief on the understanding and follow through on it in the light of concrete right views. The practitioners should determine whether to be a vegetarian or not based on his studying environment, stage and state and weigh the pros and cons.

比如，初入佛門者不明理而勉強吃素食，甚至因此帶來了種種困惑煩惱，這就背離了修行的目的。

For example, the beginners force themselves to be vegetarians without understanding the reason. As a result, they are caught in endless troubles, and deviate from their original intentions.

再如，若在邊遠不毛之地，沒有食素的環境和條件，也難以施行。

Also, if you are in a remote and barren place, the environment and condition for vegetarian diet are not available, it is also difficult to be a vegetarian.

再如，帝洛巴上師是位大成就者，他還殺魚、吃魚。為什麼呢？他殺魚是度魚，他有超度的能力。那些魚以前跟他沒有結過緣，無緣的眾生無法救度。他看到那些魚特別愚痴、痛苦，吃了它們的肉，就可以和它們結上緣，這樣才能度化它們。像他這樣殺魚、吃魚都有意義，是一種饒益眾生，不但沒有罪過，反而還有很多功德。

Again, the Guru Tilopa, one of the mahasiddhas, also killed fish and ate them. Why? He killed the fish so as to release the soul of fish from purgatory as he had the ability. The fish had no ties with him before, so he couldn』t help those beings without connections with him. The fish was ignorant and suffering, so he ate the fish to make connections with them, in this way he could help them. It is meaningful to kill the fish and eat them like this, because it is for the benefit of others. It doesn』t commit a sin but accumulates merits.

主要是要學會發心、轉念。如果有條件食素，平時就多看一些《素食的利益》等方面的資料，在明理的基礎上堅定自己的信仰。若實在沒有條件食素，就要發慈悲心，給它念咒，把所做的功德迴向給它，願它們早日解脫，這樣對它們也有好處。

Learn to change your motivation and mind mainly. If the vegetarian condition is available, then read some books such as the Benefit of Vegetarian Diet and keep your faith based on true understanding. If the condition is not available, you should give your great compassion, recite mantras and dedicate the merits to them, and wish them to obtain liberation soon. It is also good for them.

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