THE SIN OF KILLING IS INCREDIBLY SEVERE
Great Strength Bodhisattva: “Sentient beings who are stuck in the cycle of rebirth due to their ignorance are pitiable. When I observe how sentient beings in the human realm consume fish, prawn, chicken, pork, it is just like witnessing humans eating humans. Just like humans are made of flesh and blood, the various birds and aquatic animals have the five sense organs – eyes, ears, nose, tongue and body-consciousness”.
“When they are being slaughtered, they will cry, feel the pain, and fear death. Before they fell to the evil realms, creatures of the animal realm, including the aquatic animals, were humans just like the rest of you, yet all of you are now consuming their flesh. In the eyes of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, it is just like humans eating humans”.
Guan Yin Bodhisattva says, “In the Chinese character for “meat”, there are two of the Chinese characters for humans. If you think carefully, it is very much like humans eating humans. All disciples of the Buddha, if you have already developed a mind compassionate enough to perform life liberation, why not become a vegetarian? As all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas harbour mercy and compassion, They can only sigh as They cannot bear to see sentient beings eat each other in this cyclical existence.”
Ma Zu Bodhisattva:
“If you wish to pray for the blessings and protection of Bodhisattva, you must not commit the act of killing; instead, you should become a vegetarian. The sin of killing is incredibly severe. If you do not wish to develop cancer in the near future, quickly adopt a vegetarian diet before karmic retribution makes you regret your action. Otherwise, it will be all too late.”
Source: Master Jun Hong Lu’s Discourse (Question 411), 5 Sep 2020
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