Of all the merits and virtues, why is it the first to release merits and virtues?

 所有的功德中：为什么放生功德为第一？

If you can live a good life, you can spend some money to release life and accumulate merit through releasing life. All good things can be done, but many things need fate, only release, as long as you want, you can do it at any time, There are unlimited blessings.

--------Zhuge Changqing

If a person really wants to achieve happiness and longevity, he must do good deeds both deeply and widely. However, if you want to do good deeds deeply and widely, none of them is more complete and perfect than letting go.

This is because a person eats with his mouth and his stomach is very limited, so if a person abstains from killing and vegetarianism, his life will be less killed and his karma will be less. Even though we try to tell each other and persuade relatives and friends around us, some people believe that some people do not believe that, and only a few people can really listen to our advice and influence them not to kill and vegetarianism.

Only when you let go of life, your merits are limitless. Our lifelong wish to do good can be fulfilled in a short time of one day. Millions of people can accumulate the merits of good deeds, and we can achieve it alone. As long as you have the confidence to work hard, disasters and dangers can be eliminated immediately, and the sense of good fortune can come immediately. No one has ever made an exception.

And general good deeds, although they can also correct the general idea and change the fate, must wait for the opportunity, and must meet the opportunity to make a difference. For example, to compound the divorced couple of others, to retrieve the lost bones and flesh of others, to return the precious lost money of others, to save the dying lives of others, and so on, the merits and virtues are also great, but these are not things that can often happen, and we may not meet them. Even if we meet them, it is only by chance, and there is absolutely no chance that we can always continue to do it.

Only release is the most remarkable. It can be carried out wherever and whenever. When we have more money, we will buy more and put more life. When we have less money, we will buy less and put less life. You can measure your ability and do what you can. There is no money limit, and you can do it with more people and less people.

So when a person is seriously ill and in emergency, he/she makes a vow and is willing to do a lot of good deeds to make up for his/her sin, so as to prolong his/her life. At that time, his heart was not sincere, but he was suffering from the lack of opportunity to meet the right cause, but he just waited for it hard, compared his life, and could not start to realize his good wishes. How could he get all kinds of feelings to eliminate diseases, eliminate disasters, prolong life and avoid difficulties?

It's better for us to release our lives quickly. We can meet our wishes in a short time, and we will get results in a short time. The matter of releasing life seems very simple, and it is also very easy to do. The induction effect is fast and universal, and the merits are extensive. One person releasing life can avoid the disease disaster of one person's family, and many people releasing life can save the world's catastrophe and change the world's fate.

In this way, if you want to do good deeds that are both deep and broad, you really have to release yourself. Therefore, the most important thing is to release the merits.

    如果你生活的可以，那么就可以拿出一部分钱来放生，通过放生来积累功德。好事情都可以做，但是很多事情需要缘分，只有放生，只要你想，随时都可以进行.......，其中的福报，不可限量。

                                                                -------- 诸葛长青

一个人如果真的想要求得福寿，一定要把善事做的既深又广。然而若想把善事做的既深又广，所有的善事中没有比放生更彻底更完美的。

这是因为一个人嘴巴吃的，肚子装的十分有限，所以一个人如果戒杀吃素，少杀掉的生命，免造的杀业，仍然有限，即使我们努力相互告诉，辗转劝说周遭亲友，然而一部分的人相信，一部分的人不相信，真正能够听从我们的劝告从而感化他们不杀生吃素的人也只是寥寥可数。

惟有放生，功德最为无量无边。我们一辈子行善的愿望，可以在一天短短的时间内满足实现，千千万万人累积善事的功德，我们自己一个人便可单独成就。只要有信心努力去做，灾祸危难可以马上消除，福报感应可以马上到来，古今中外，从来没有一个人会有例外。

而且一般的善事，虽然也可以匡正大意，改变命运，但必须等待机缘，必须遇上机会才能有所作为。比如说复合别人离异的夫妇，找回别人失散的骨肉，归还别人贵失的钱财，拯救别人垂危的生命等等，功德也都是很大，但这些都不是常常可以有的事情，未必我们能遇得上，就算遇上了，也只是偶然而已，绝对不可能有常常可以持续去做的机会。

惟有放生，最为殊胜。无论什么地方，无论什么时候都可以进行。钱多的时候，我们便买多一点，多放一些物命，钱少的时候，我们便买少一点，少放一些物命。自己可以衡量自己的能力量力而为，没有什么金钱上多少的限制，并且人多人少都可以进行。

所以当一个人身患重病，遭遇急难的时候，自己立下誓愿，愿意广行善事，弥补罪业，藉以延长自己的寿命。当时的发心并非不恳切，但却苦于没有机会碰上适当因缘，而只是苦苦等待，磋砣命光，徒有善愿却无法着手进行实现，如此怎么能够求得除病消灾延寿免难的种种感应呢？

不如我们自己赶快去放生，短短的时间内即可满足我们的愿望，而且短短的时间内马上会得到成效。放生这件事情，看起来非常简单，做起来也非常容易，感应效果快速普且所得功德广大，一个人放生，可以免除一个人身家的疾病灾难，众多人放生，可以挽救世界的浩劫，改变世界的命运。

如此看来，想要自己所行的善事既深又广，真的非放生莫属。所以说，放生功德最为第一。

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Introduction to Zhuge Changqing: Zhuge Changqing, the inheritor and promoter of traditional Chinese culture, is willing to "learn from sages, promote virtue, revitalize China and benefit the world" together with people with the same ideals in the world.

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Zhuge Changqing's Chinese Dream

Learn from sages and carry forward virtue

Revitalizing China for the benefit of the world

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诸葛长青简介：诸葛长青，中国国学传统文化传承弘扬者，愿与天下志同道合者一起“学习圣贤、弘扬善德、振兴中华、造福世界”。

（诸葛长青：zhuge8031@163.com）

Zhuge Changqing mailbox：

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