Vegetarian culture: Master Taixu talks about the trend of vegetarian food in the West

素食文化：太虚大师谈西方素食风潮

amitabha. He is a vegetarian, healthy, intelligent, and meritorious person.

-----Zhuge Changqing

Nanwu Master Sakyamuni Buddha. Namo Amitabha. Blessed life is limitless.

Vegetarian, good health, body will slowly smell.

Vegetarian and wise will become eloquent and have excellent memory.

Eating vegetarian food can make you look beautiful and make you more temperament.

According to research, one of the secrets of the long-lived elderly in China is to eat more grains and vegetables.

Zhuge Changqing believes that if you want longevity, health, beauty and wisdom, you should eat more vegetarian food.

How to be vegetarian? How to avoid other people talking about you and other problems? Those who have a chance can read the vegetarian article album of Zhuge Changqing's Sina blog:

Zhuge Changqing Vegetarian Culture Album: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1239807711_12_1.html

Zhuge Changqing thought that Master Taixu said the vegetarian idea was very good.

The big problem of life is clothing, food, housing and transportation. As far as food is concerned, we have been lacking in rational thinking and have become meat. As knowledge progresses, so does practice. Therefore, vegetarian abstinence from killing is a necessary thing in the evolutionary process. I went to Germany and met three or four vegetarian restaurants in a famous city. There is a large-scale vegetarian restaurant near a university, and the number of people who eat is more than that of the university students. Vegetarianism is also prevalent in New York, Paris and other places. It is indeed a good phenomenon that Europe and the United States have unanimously advocated.

There are only four reasons:

1、 The spirit of fraternity: people and animals are both animals. They are good at living and bad at dying. They know pain and itch. There has been no difference. Fools like animals should be protected to reduce pain. Western vegetarians advocate animal protection, and now they have evolved from animal protection to vegetarianism, which is a sign of the spirit of fraternity and a manifestation of human evolution.

2、 Health concept: When an animal is killed, it will be angry, and a toxin will be born with it, which will instantly fill the whole body. Those who eat its meat will suffer from it. This has been proved by experiments, and we should not believe it. The living elements are all contained in plants. Once they enter the animal body, they will deteriorate immediately. Eating meat to maintain health is a fallacy in recent times. According to the Western test, the transformation of life cells is directly related to food. Those who eat beef for a long time become bully and aggressive. The intensity of the previous European war is also the result of eating beef.

3、 Economism: Westerners use sophisticated statistical methods to calculate the number of square acres of land for animal husbandry, and the food they get can feed ten people. That is to say, in the same place, we can grow grain and vegetables and get enough food to feed 15 people. The old people are vegetarian, which is not particularly economical, and the national economy is also sufficient.

4、 Buddhism explains that, two thousand years ago, Buddhism had advised people to abstain from killing the vegetarian, such as Youche in the Lenga Sutra. Buddhism has been in China for a long time, so the trend of vegetarian abstinence from killing is flourishing in our country. However, Buddhism explains that not only is human and animal equal, but also shows the cycle of cause and effect.

As the Shurangama Sutra says, "People die as sheep, and sheep die as people". Life and death continue, and there is no end to the cycle. So how can today's people who swallow and kill each other know that they are not the relatives of their parents in the previous life? It is only different from other generations, and no longer recognize each other! More advanced, Buddhism's life is focused on enlightenment. When encountering knowledge, people should be merciful and not be disturbed. It is not fiction that ancient eminent monks can tame tigers. It is not the mercy of the ancient sages that can achieve this goal! In fact, animals and animals eat people, which is also inspired by heart. This has the intention of inflicting harm, so that has the intention of killing. Mind power is incredible, believe it!

In the old view, vegetarianism was the superstition of Buddhism. In modern thought, vegetarianism is the truth of life, and vegetarianism is more rational. With humans as animals, we should love each other. As for the reason why humans love meat, Westerners deduce it from the biological principle. It is good that humans evolved from wild animals, and the old habits are not forgotten. Although the language is profound, it is enough to show that meat is inhumane.

In a word, the more progressive the thought, the more enlightened the Buddhism is, and this is the inevitable trend. It is really rare for you to listen to me for a long time today. I hope that if we can believe in Buddhism without doubt, we can carry forward the light analysis, and our country has a bright future! Fortunately for the future of the world!

Master Taixu (1889-1947), a modern eminent monk, is famous for advocating human Buddhism. The common surname is Lu, the name is Gansen, the legal name is idealism, and the number is Taixu. Zhejiang Chongde (now incorporated into Tongxiang). He was born in the 15th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty (1889). At the age of 16 in the 31st year of Guangxu's reign, he entered the Xiaojiuhua Temple in Suzhou and became a monk. After becoming a monk, he went to the Tiantong Temple in Ningbo to send a Buddhist monk to receive the concrete precepts. Later, he went to Yongfeng Temple and studied the scriptures of the Qichang Monk. Over the years, he returned to Tiantong Temple to practice Zen and learn Buddhism. At that time, he and the Min Monks Yuanying and Huiquan participated in the study of Zen. Master Taixu was a theorist and practitioner in the Buddhist reform movement in modern China. He devoted all his life to the cause of revitalizing Buddhism and building a new Buddhist culture. (Source: Phoenix Chinese Buddhism)

阿弥陀佛。持续吃素，身体健康、智慧超群、功德无量。

----- 诸葛长青

     南无本师释迦牟尼佛。南无阿弥陀佛。福生无量天尊。

    吃素，身体好，身体会慢慢有香味。

    吃素，开智慧，会变得辩才无碍、记忆力超群。

      吃素，可以美容，使人变得更有气质。

    据研究显示，我国长寿老人的秘诀之一，就是多吃五谷杂粮、素食青菜。

    诸葛长青认为，如果你希望长寿、健康、美容、智慧，那就多吃素食吧。

     如何吃素？如何避免别人说你等问题，有缘者可以多看诸葛长青老师新浪博客的素食文章专辑：

 诸葛长青素食文化专辑：http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/articlelist_1239807711_12_1.html

   诸葛长青认为太虚大师说素食理念非常好。

   人生之大问题，曰衣、食、住、行。单论食之一项，吾人自累世来，缺乏合理思想，习成肉食。迨知识渐进，习亦渐改。故素食戒杀，为进化程式中当有之事。吾前曾往德国，于着名之城市，亦遇见素食馆三、四处。某大学附近有规模宏大之素食馆，就食者多该大学之学生。在纽约、巴黎等处，素食之风，亦颇盛行。欧美一致提倡，确是大好现象。

   考其原由，不外四端：
   一、博爱精神：人与禽兽，均是动物，好生恶死，知痛觉痒，曾无有异。况物类愚癡，应加保护，令减痛苦。西人素主保护动物，现更由保护动物而进为素食主义，足征博爱精神，为人类进化之表现也。
   二、卫生观念：动物被杀，必发瞋恨，一种毒素随之而生，顷刻间遍满全体。食其肉者必受其害，此从试验证明，不可不信。又生活原素，都含藏在植物中，一入动物体内，即时变坏。食肉养生，近世认为谬见。再据西人考验，人生细胞变换，与食品有直接关系。久食牛肉者，变为牛性而好斗，前次欧战之剧烈，亦为食牛肉之结果云。
   三、经济主义：西人以精密之统计法计算，以若干方亩土地畜牧，所获食料可养活十人者。即以此同一之地，种植谷蔬，所获食料，足以养活十五人。故人盡素食，不特令人之经济可节省，国家之经济亦因之而充足矣。
   四、佛教所阐：佛教在二千年前，已劝人戒杀茹素，如《楞伽经》等所说尤切。佛教来中国已久，故素食戒杀之风，吾国为盛。但佛教所阐，不盡为人、畜平等，并显因果轮回。

   如《楞严经》云：“人死为羊，羊死为人”，生死相续，轮转无已。故今日之相吞相杀者，安知非前生之父母眷属？只隔世成异，不复相认耳！更有进者，佛教度生，重在感化，凡遇含识，应生慈悲，勿令惊扰。古代高僧，每能驯服猛虎，并非虚构。凤凰来仪，百兽率舞，非古圣贤之仁慈感化，安能臻此！实则禽兽食人，亦由心力感召。此有加害之心，故彼有残杀之意。心力不可思议，信然！
   旧时见解，以素食为佛教之迷信。现代思想，谓素食为人生之真理，以素食为比较合乎理性也。以人类同为动物，自当互相爱护。至人类之所以嗜肉，西人从生物原理推之，良以人类由野兽递变进化而成，旧时习性未忘致然耳。语虽深刻，然亦足以表肉食之为不人道矣。

  总之，思想愈进步，佛法亦愈昌明，此必然之势也。今日诸君久听弗倦，诚为难得。愿于佛法能深信勿疑，则发扬光阐，吾国前途幸甚！世界前途幸甚！
   太虚大师，（1889--1947）近代高僧，以倡导人间佛教而著称。俗姓吕，名淦森，法名唯心，号太虚。浙江崇德（今并入桐乡）人。生于清光绪十五年（1889）。光绪三十一年16岁，入苏州小九华寺披剃为僧。出家后即往宁波天童寺依寄禅和尚受具足戒。嗣往永丰寺就歧昌和尚学经。越岁复住天童寺修禅学佛。时与闽僧圆瑛、会泉为同参，相与参究禅学。太虚大师是中国近代佛教改革运动中的一位理论家和实践家。他把自己的一生都献给了振兴佛教、建设新佛教文化的事业。（来源：凤凰网华人佛教）

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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”。

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