AVOID DEVELOPING NEGATIVE KARMIC AFFINITIES WITH ANIMALS BY ADOPTING A VEGETARIAN DIET
Master Jun Hong Lu: Those who cultivate their minds should always know that it is like having a driving licence. Those who drive can’t go without a driving licence because it is a must to have one in order to drive.
Similarly, only by constantly observing the Buddhist precepts would Buddhist practitioners be able to cultivate their minds.
Those who fail to observe the Buddhist precepts will never go far in their spiritual cultivation. Those who can’t even be a vegetarian will develop negative karmic affinities with animals. If prolonged, one will slowly lose the most beautiful gift in the human realm and, that is, one’s spiritual life.
Those who are vegetarians will have wisdom in life. On the flip side, those who always consume meat will have their seeds of compassion being cut off from them, and their spiritual lives will slowly disappear.
A vegetarian diet engenders good health, wisdom and compassion and only then, one can receive the blessings of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas and gain resonance with Buddhas and Bodhisattvas.
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Public Talk, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12 December 2015
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