Photo of releasing site: Photo of releasing fish

放生现场图片：放生鱼类现场照片

Letting go is to save lives, to accumulate blessings, to resolve karma, and to exceed creditors.

----Zhuge Changqing

To set free is to save lives. It is the process of setting free the lives that face being killed.

Free reincarnation can accumulate good fortune, surpass creditors and resolve karma.

Release can change fate.

Zhuge Changqing believed that releasing is to save lives, so his merits are enormous and earth-shaking.

The Confucian "Book of Changes" has a saying that Qian refers to great life, Kun refers to broad life, and the great virtue of heaven and earth refers to life, so Confucius praised the "Book of Changes" for living. We should practice the virtue of living in heaven and earth and advocate abstaining from killing and releasing animals.

The Zen master Xu Yun, the old monk, said, "We should be brave and progressive, and we should practice both inside and outside. Internal practice is simply to say 'who is chanting the Buddha', or to say 'Amitabha', so as to avoid greed, anger, and other thoughts, so that the truth of Dharma can be revealed. External practice is to abstain from killing and releasing life, turn the ten evils into the ten good, and do not smoke the sky with wine and meat all day long, and create boundless sin."

Zhuge Changqing: Letting go not only accumulates blessings, but also promotes practice.

"In recent times, the people of the world have suffered, and the most important thing is the consequences. They often urge the world to abstain from killing those who release their lives, eat fast and recite Buddhism, that is, to avoid the consequences of the cycle of cause and effect. You should believe in it, plant good causes, and achieve the fruits of Buddha."

Master Dixian of the Tiantai Sect said, "Not killing is the first of all precepts, but releasing is the first of all good."

Master Yuan Ying, the first president of the Chinese Buddhist Association, said: "As far as the matter of protecting life is concerned, the two religions of Buddhism and Confucianism are in line with each other. Our Buddha takes great compassion as the foundation of saving the world. The merciful, the joy of all living beings, and the merciful, the pain of all living beings." "We should learn the great compassion of Buddha, and implement the abstinence and release of life, which is the way to learn Buddhism. It is the way to learn Buddhism. It is the way to learn Buddhism, not only to abide by the law, but also to try to release life, which is in line with our Buddha's compassionate purpose."

"Since becoming a monk, we have made every effort to release life every year. This association is named after the Lianchi Free Life Association. We should take Buddhist compassion and Confucian compassion as the basis for the health care movement, which is really the most auspicious and good thing in the world."

"I hope that all the people in the society will try their best to do it, that is, it is their own survival to meet the birthday, marriage, and birth of children, and to celebrate the good luck of their lives. They should abstain from killing and releasing the vegetarian, so as to seek the good results."

Master Hongyi in modern times said, "First of all, ask you: do you want to prolong your life? Do you want to recover from illness? Do you want to avoid difficulties? Do you want to have a son? If you want to, there is a simple and easy way to tell you, that is, release your life."

"I only wish that from now on, you will make every effort to release life and change the killing of life."

Release. Release can be done by yourself or by entrustment.

If conditions permit, it is better to release yourself. The benefit of releasing yourself is to personally feel the compassion and affection, and to personally experience the gratitude and affection of the saved lives.

放生就是救命、就是积累福报，就是化解业障、就是超度债主。

---- 诸葛长青

    放生，就是救命，就是把面临被杀的生命放生的过程。

   放生可以积累福报、超度债主、化解业障。

   放生，可以改变命运。

    诸葛长青认为，放生就是救助生命，所以功德巨大、感天动地。

   儒教《周易》有言，乾曰大生，坤曰广生，天地之大德曰生，故孔子赞《易》以生生。吾人应体天地好生之德，提倡戒杀放生。

   禅宗一代宗师虚云老和尚开示说：“我们要勇猛精进，要内外加修。内修，即是单单的参一句‘念佛是谁’的话头，或念一句‘阿弥陀佛’，不起贪瞋痴恚种种其他念头，使真如法性得以透露。外修，即是戒杀放生，将十恶转为十善，不要一天到晚酒肉熏天，造无边的罪业。”

    诸葛长青：放生不仅积累福报，而且可以促进修行。

   “近来世界人民遭难，杀劫之重，皆是果报所遭；每每劝世人要戒杀放生、吃斋念佛者，也就是要大家免遭因果轮回之报；诸位须当信奉，种植善因，成就佛果。”

   天台宗谛闲大师说：“不杀为诸戒之首，而放生为众善之先也。”“历朝以来，缁素同人，慈善大家，以放生为务者，典籍所载，未易仆罄也。”

   中国佛教协会第一任会长圆瑛大师说：“至论护生一事，佛儒二教，若合符节。我佛以大慈大悲而为救世之本，大慈者，与一切众生之乐，大悲者，拔一切众生之苦。”“吾人当学佛之大慈大悲，实行戒杀放生，方是学佛之行。是以学佛者，不仅持律戒杀，尤当竭力放生，方合我佛慈悲宗旨。”

   “出家以来，每年力行放生，本会乃以莲池放生会为名，当以佛教慈悲，儒宗恻隐，而作护生运动，实为天下无上吉祥善事。”

   “希望社会诸君，勉力行之，即遇寿辰、结婚、生子，是自己求生，庆生吉祥之事，均宜戒杀放生茹素，以善因而求善果也。”

     近代弘一法师说：“先问诸君：一欲延寿否？二欲愈病否？三欲免难否？四欲得子否？倘愿者，今有一最简便易行之法奉告，即是放生也。”

  “惟愿诸君自今以后，力行放生之事，痛改杀生之事。”

   放生，放生可以自己放，也可委托放生。

   如果有条件，最好自己放生，自己放生的好处是亲身感受那份慈悲和感动，亲身体会被救生命的那份感谢和亲情。

    (This article is an original article by Zhuge Changqing, and the pictures are selected from the Internet. Welcome to forward it, and please indicate the source for forwarding)

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.

(Zhuge Changqing: zhuge8031@163.com ）

Zhuge Changqing mailbox：

zhuge8031@163.com

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：

zhuge8031@163.com

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学习圣贤 弘扬善德

振兴中华 造福世界

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