BEING A VEGETARIAN IS NOT ABOUT SHOWING OFF; BE TRUE TO YOUR PRACTICE
Caller: A fellow practitioner has made a vow to be a vegetarian for 25 days in a month. I’d like to ask whether there is any difference between such a vow and those who vow to be a vegetarian for 10 days or 2 days in a month?
Master Jun Hong Lu: In actuality, each vegetarian meal represents one less meal of meat; one less meal of meat means one additional vegetarian meal. By doing this, you will first gain better health and an improved body constitution.
Second, it also helps to nurture a heart of compassion. It’s important to be compassionate. Those who often opt for a vegetarian meal will always have the mindset that “I must not kill”.
Caller: Yes, that is true.
Master Jun Hong Lu: Don’t you think the more compassion that you have, the closer you are to the Bodhisattvas, and wouldn’t your prayer become more efficacious? Guan Yin Bodhisattva is the epitome of compassion. Would a compassionate person kill and eat meat?
Caller: Yes, that’s right. If one vows to be vegetarian 25 days in a month as opposed to only on the first and the fifteenth of each lunar month, will be results be similar?
Master Jun Hong Lu: It goes without saying that the former is better than the latter. Are you putting on a show by opting for a vegetarian meal on the first and fifteenth of each lunar month because Bodhisattvas are around? One must be earnest and genuine in being a vegetarian!
Source: Wenda20111021 50:38, Master Jun Hong Lu’s call-in radio program
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