My true experience of releasing raw materials

我放生的真实感应体会

 This is a friend's experience of releasing life, practice proves that releasing life is to accumulate virtue, releasing life is to save oneself ....... If you have money to spare, release more beings ......

                         ------ 诸葛長青

   Release is the best way to cultivate compassion and eliminate sickness and suffering. I would like to share with you my experience of releasing raw materials. 

　　The first time I let go of a living creature was probably in the spring of 1997. I had not yet studied Buddhism and was still in the stage of suffering from illness.

　　I was reading Zhou Yi, and in this book of Zhou Yi, I learnt that it is important to be kind. One afternoon, I was driving past a food market and stopped to buy something. I found a 16 or 7 year old boy selling a bird hawk (not a very big hawk, after training it can catch sparrows.) I didn't know the price but my first thought was to buy it and release it, how nice to give it freedom.

　　I only had 50 yuan on me and I was in a very tight financial situation at that time. I asked for the price and it was exactly 50 yuan. After a long discussion with him, I sold it for $35.

　　I asked for scissors, cut the string on the eagle's leg and put it in the air. The hawk immediately flew away, as if it didn't want to miss this opportunity. The young man, surprised (and not expecting me to let it go), whistled to call it back.

　　The hawk, indeed trained by humans, heard the whistle and immediately turned back to the lad's side. But the hawk realised that it was free of the rope and continued to fly high again. The lad continued to whistle vigorously and the hawk looked back again and accelerated high. By the time the lad, whistling desperately, the hawk simply ignored it and flew higher into the sky. I was happy to go, and that was my first release. 

　　Strangely enough, the illness that was not getting better was completely cured in a lab test shortly after the release. I didn't know the benefits of releasing the life, but the joy afterwards was something that you simply cannot get normally. A month later, also at this same place, the same eagle was bought again. I seemed to feel that this fat eagle might be about to lay an egg and put it near the Anshan Monastery in Xiajiahe in the hope that it would hear the Dharma. At that time, I had just returned to the fold. 

　　The real act of releasing the eagle was in '98. The master of Ansan Monastery suggested releasing the life, and many monks responded with their hearts. I was very happy to hear that there were also pujas and so on. I was very happy to hear that there were also pujas and other activities. I was very grateful in the face of the Master's trust. With my girlfriend (now wife), I saw the snapper that was going to be slaughtered (in the way that they are now slaughtered and sold) in the Dalian shopping mall and bought over $3,000 straight away. The rest of the money was spent on birds. 

　　After the conversion at the monastery, we went to the reservoir to release the birds. Those snappers swam quickly into the water and someone said: "Bastards are bastards, what a thank you, show,," and just as he finished his words, the snappers floated up on the water surface, showing their pointed heads and nodding at us on the shore. The long-lasting scene was so infectious to all present that Master Gong Lin said, "They are just mute beings, they don't speak human language, this doesn't come to thank you,,,". I was stunned by the sight before me as I experienced the unbelievable. Only a fellow Buddhist who has had the same experience as us can know how I felt at that moment. 

　　The regular releases that my fellow practitioners and I have done since then have to be sent to the monastery for conversion, after which we have gone to the mountains and reservoirs to release them. More often than not, we could not make it to the monastery for the conversion, so we had to recite the rituals for the release ourselves. Each release was quite joyful and peaceful. I bought whatever I came across, snakes, fish, birds,... 

　　Once I went to a shopping mall to buy milk powder for my children and I happened to notice that there was a snake counter in the Dalian shopping mall, so I paid attention to it for a while. There were different kinds of snakes in each glass case, from white-browed pit vipers (venomous) from Snake Island, to various snakes from the south, and many, many more. I was just about to leave when, in one of the cabinets, a very large and thick black snake circled sharply around the cabinet.

　　When **watching close, it stood up straight and **approached me too. I melancholy about buying or not buying, it stood upright and came down parallel again, doing this to me repeatedly. Oh my God! Could it be that it was kowtowing to me to save it,,,? It moved violently and frequently as I parted. I sighed deeply because I didn't have any extra money. During that period, I was experiencing financial difficulties. Buying milk powder for my child was the order of the day and I reluctantly left, but always thinking of the snake. When I got home, I told my wife what I had seen and she agreed that I should go and buy it. The snake weighed at least 2 catties and it was priced at 128 yuan per catty. If I bought it, I really didn't know how I was going to get by this month. 

　　I took the money and took a taxi and hurried to the mall. I saw that the snake was still lying inside, and when it saw me coming, it came alive again. The waitress (around 20 years old) easily and skillfully caught and wrapped the snake. I admired the guts of the waitress, I was too scared of snakes to touch one. When it was time to cross the scales, the waitress was surprised and called for another person to come and reweigh it. The snake, which seemed so big, was less than 1 pound on the electronic scale and the amount shown was RMB 118. I noticed that the waitress was hobbling and her right foot was bandaged and swollen up to a large size. When I asked why, she said it was ulcerated and didn't know why. She suddenly asked me what I was buying the snake for and I told her to release it. She lingered for some time and asked why with a puzzled look in her eyes. I blurted out that snakes are very spiritual and should not be eaten or sold, and that if they are eaten or sold they will be punished. She lingered for a moment and scowled. I said, "Look what the mall sells no ah, you do not do this again. She nodded, and I knew she had accepted it in her heart. 

　　It was very late in the evening and I took a taxi to hurry home. On the way past home, I saw Willow and asked to stop. I was so caught up in the moment that I had to ask for willow branches to sprinkle with the water of great sorrow. When I got back to the car and had to put the band with the snake at my feet, I found a hundred dollars, folded on the ground, with money inside. I wondered how I hadn't seen it when I got on the bus at first, it was all in the same place. It was such a big sum of money that I wouldn't have noticed it now, would I? I got melancholy, should I give it to the driver or keep it for myself for the next release. The money that was in this position should not be the driver's. I picked up the money and kept it. When I arrived at the courtyard of the block, I just got out of the car, and immediately someone got in. I carried the snake and hurried upstairs. The money I found was 150 yuan, just enough to buy the snake and to pay for the taxi. 

　　At my Buddha Hall, I hurriedly performed rituals on it and by the time the rituals were over, it was dark. I went to the hill behind the building, found a spot, opened the band and it came out immediately, and in a haze I saw it rise upright, over a metre high, facing me. I forgot to leave myself a back way, there was a steep hill behind me and if I wanted to walk I had to pass very close to its eyes. I didn't think much of it, but felt it was well-meaning and would definitely not hurt me. It just hurried away without looking back. 

　　I told the other Buddhists about this and there was a unanimous request to buy all the snakes that the big business had and release them. I took out the 150 yuan and bought them together. When I went back to the mall, I couldn't find the original attendant, and after asking around, I found out that she had quit. This time we bought all the snakes in the mall, which cost a lot, including the highly poisonous ones. 

　　We bought all the snakes and took them to my home Buddhist temple to do the rituals with the monks. When the nectar water was sprinkled on them, the snakes wriggled violently. Afterwards, I went to a mountain and started releasing the snakes. As there were nearly 200 highly poisonous snakes, some of the monks were afraid of them, so it fell to me to release them, and they watched from a distance. I was calm and had no feeling of fear. I opened the tape and said to them in my mind: "To release you, I need you to agree to a few requirements. 1. no running around and scaring people. 2. no biting. 3.,". I repeated this several times and opened the tape through and released them. Many of the snakes were reluctant to leave for a long time, and after I forced them to go with a branch, they slowly began to leave individually. 

　　When many of the monks found out about the release of the poisonous snakes, some of them condemned it. I said that if we did not release the snakes, they would end up making wine, so how could we not save them from death? If you have to pick and choose when releasing them, releasing this and not that, you have lost the meaning of releasing them to save lives. I believe that those snakes will accept my request completely and will not hurt anyone. It has been more than four years now and I have never heard of anyone seeing snakes or snakes hurting people in the places where we have released them. I used to have boils and other boils on my body, often with thick blood. Then I don't know when it cleared up, and it never did. By chance I learned that it was the fruit of releasing the snakes. 

　　Since then, I have done my own rituals for all the releases I have had. Many monasteries do not give rituals for poisonous snakes etc. In my continuous process of releasing snakes, I have concluded. To release a living being, as the name implies, is to release its way of life. It is best to let go of life in its natural way, to free the living creatures that are under the knife and about to be slaughtered. It has lost its meaning if it is done for merit, quantity and task. The release of life should be done anytime and anywhere, not uniformly with time, place, items, quantity, etc. 

　　Old monk Shine Yi, once told me that when you see a living being to be slaughtered, make sure you save it, do conversions, etc., and release it afterwards. Don't worry about being caught by others again,, and also said not to participate in those collective nominal releases,, I didn't appreciate the purpose of the old monk at that time. 

　　Soon after, a tantric master came from a Buddhist college and led the group in releasing beings for about 2 months. I did not participate in their release because I remembered the old monk's instructions. It was only afterwards that I realised the incredible wisdom of the old monk. It was entirely right not to participate in their act. 

　　Their act of releasing the life, ordering in advance, has created many people who have made a fortune from it. The unlawful act of releasing the beings led to many beings dying on the way. A profound lesson, I could not resist cursing them at the time. The simple release of sentient beings, they carried out in a complicated manner, one after another ritual, one after another return, and the result that awaited was the death of many sentient beings busy. Both dead, not to call it a release anymore. The fish they bought, they went so far as to kowtow to the fish and call out to the mother fish, attracting more passers-by to look on. It is difficult to describe the consequences of their foolish behaviour, which has led to misunderstanding of Buddhism and misunderstanding of Buddhists. 

　　I was prompted to write about my own experience of releasing fish for your reference. 

　　While I praise Brother Zhang for his heart, my personal opinion is that releasing life should be a release without appearance, a release without desire. If we release life for the sake of the Gurus' blessings, merit and so on, just like trading, using our money, time and greed to exchange for merit and for what we want, we have lost the true meaning of cultivating compassion and releasing life. 

　　Through my own experience of life release, I have concluded the following. Do not deliberately come up with a time, place, quantity, species, etc. The best way to release life is to do it whenever and wherever you can, to save the life under the knife. If you are not in a position to go to a monastery, you can make your own simple rituals, which can be found at the back of your morning and evening textbooks. Don't talk to people about how much you have released and how it is. Doing good deeds and humane deeds is not merit, it is transformed into blessings. And while blessings can disappear in an instant, merit and virtue are the source of motivation for us to study and practise Buddhism. Let us not neglect this truth. If, as mentioned above, there is a separate mind when releasing life, and loaches are cheaper and more numerous, then cows and sheep are not released if they are less numerous? All beings are equal, and so is the release of life. If we do not make distinctions, if we release beings whenever and wherever we can, and if we do not become complacent afterwards, that is the beginning of our progress. 

　　One day at noon, my wife called me and asked me to hurry over. It turned out that she was on the street during her lunch break and an old man was chasing her to sell catfish and she bought them all, a dozen of them. I drove and she chanted the Great Compassion Mantra in the back, very quietly. By the time we got to the reservoir to release them, the catfish wouldn't leave for a long time, repeatedly crossing out of the water. What was the reason? She released the catfish as a pious act of the heart, not asking for any reward; furthermore, when reciting the Great Compassion Mantra, there were no delusions. A pious act, the induction of the Great Compassion Mantra is inconceivable! I admire such a release! 

　　One day I was driving and I noticed a sheep in front of the lamb soup restaurant by the roadside. After a moment of melancholy, I drove over and bought it anyway. If I didn't buy it, it would be meat in the mouth of the crowd tomorrow. I had to buy this one today, even though I was limited in my ability and they were going to slaughter it tomorrow. I bought it, but where would it go? The monastery would not want it. I finally found someone to send it temporarily to a monastery in the countryside, which is too far away from the Great Compassion Monastery, or else I would have sent it there, which accepts any release of living creatures. Another time I bought a foster with a Buddhist friend, there was really no place to send it, so I had to come to a monastery, tie it to the door, the monk came out, pointed with his finger and left. Putting the dilemma to you, I too would like to have a place dedicated to the adoption of released animals, as in the case of the Great Compassion Monastery. 

　　One day while driving in the countryside, I noticed white beings in the car in front of me, which I thought were dogs. I thought it was a dog, but realised that it was wrong, dogs do not have such spiritual eyes. Upon confirmation, I knew it was a fox, four beautiful white foxes. I sped up to overtake the car, pulled over, bargained and bought them all. It was expensive but if I didn't, they would end up being skinned and their skins used to make ladies' coats etc. Bought and found a safe place for them to be put. 

　　One day at the food market I saw baby quails slaughtered on site. I bought them all, even though I knew they wouldn't live long. A certain monk disagreed and said that the clouds were there. My reasoning was that they were shrivelled up, listless and panicked and scared when they were to be slaughtered. Now they are alive and well, and although they will not live long, they are less likely to suffer from the slaughter, knowing that at that moment of intense anger and terror they will surely enter the three sorrows and emerge without a date. Buy to hear the Buddha's teachings, with the different karmic consequences of death. Also, reversing the karma of the killers and the killed, such a release of life is necessary. 

On one occasion I went to buy fish for release, and as my financial situation has improved, I buy almost all of them for each release. Even when I was not in a position to do so, I did not pick and choose what I wanted to buy. The fish seller (who sells the fish on the spot) had a murderous look on his face and smelt of blood. As we looked at each other, I felt something was going to happen, if only I had left in time. He was very unreasonable and raised the price. The mouth was lousy, cursing. He wanted me to buy them all again and he wanted to raise the price again. Then I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave, and in the moment of leaving, he blurted me out. I am also a man of blood, with a great temper, and at this time I had no more wisdom and was turned by the realm. I hope that whoever reads this will not follow my example, but will treat me as if I had no self. I hereby also repent of my actions and offer my wrongdoing to the learned. I then came up to you and asked what you were doing. Though there were many of them. But they did not dare to hit me. In the pushing and shoving, I became even more furious, I will not rest until I teach you a lesson today, at this time Buddha, Bodhisattva, all good knowledge are forgotten. I immediately called my former buddies and told them to come quickly. A few moments later, my friends arrived in a van and I was like a saviour. I led them to the market, and when the fish buyer saw that my friends were mostly people with tattooed dragons and tigers, he was as honest as a dog in a house. I didn't move at all. I hit him with rocks and sticks, knocking him to the ground and smashing his stall. We then ran off in all directions as they drove off and I easily got into my car and drove away under the eyes of a police full of people. In fact, the family member who had been beaten up was leading the police around looking for me, and I opened the door and got in the car right under their noses. They just didn't see me and let me get away with it. 

　　I drove to the house of a monk and found in the mirror that my eyes were full of violence and anger. It was not the calmness it used to be. Even the tone of my voice was full of resentment, and I woke up before it was too late! I am here today to tell you from my experience that letting go of life is not easy, and that when everyone wants to make progress, the demons come and test our path. As the Master said: "Everything is a test, see what you do, if you don't pass, you have to start all over again". Therefore, brothers and sisters who are minded to buy things to release, don't get into trouble with people. Their behaviour is already foolish, so why should we bother with them? If we can't negotiate the price, we just accept it. It's all a karmic account here and it's not for us to know. If we can't, let's leave and not make a fuss about it. The virtue of releasing a life is hard to contemplate, and when we are doing something like this, the test is inevitable.

   这是一位朋友的放生体会，实践证明，放生就是积德，放生就是解救自己.......，身上由余钱，就多放生吧......

                         ------ 诸葛长青

   放生是培养慈悲心,消除病苦的最好方法。今把我放生的经历、体会与大家分享。 
　　
　　我第一次放生，可能是在97年春。还没有学佛，还处于病苦阶段。

　　正在读周易，在周易的这本书中，我体会到了做人要善良。某日下午，我开车路过一个菜市场，停车要买东西。发现一个16、7岁的小伙子在卖一只鸟鹰（不是很大的鹰，经过训练以后可以抓麻雀。）我不知道价钱，但第一个念头是买了放生，给它自由多好。

　　我身上只有50元，那个时期我的经济很拮据。我询问价钱，刚好50元。我和他商量很久之后，35元成交。

　　我要来剪刀，剪短鹰腿上的绳子，放入空中。鹰立刻飞走，好象它也不愿意错过这个机会。那个小伙子，吃惊之余（没有想到我会放掉它），连忙打口哨呼唤鹰回来。

　　鹰，的确受过人类的训练，听到口哨，立刻回头，要回到小伙子的身边。但鹰发觉它已经摆脱了绳索，又继续高飞。小伙子继续猛烈的吹口哨，鹰再次回头看了看，加速高飞。等到小伙子，拼命的吹口哨，鹰根本不理会了，飞向更高的天空。我很高兴的走了，这就是我的第一次放生。 
　　
　　说来奇怪，不见好转的病，在放生后不久的化验中，完全好了。我不知道放生的利益，但是放生之后，那种喜悦是平时根本无法得到的。一个月后，也是在这个地方，又买了同样的一只鹰。我似乎感觉这只肥大的鹰可能要下蛋了，把它放到了夏家河安山寺的附近，希望它能够听闻佛法。那个时候，我刚刚归依。 
　　
　　真正意义上的放生行为，是在98年。安山寺的师父建议放生，众多居士发心响应。我很高兴，听说放生还要做法事等。而卖物放生的工作，师父委派我。面对师父的信任，我很感激。和我的女友（现在的妻子），在大连商场看到将要宰杀的甲鱼（现宰杀现卖的方式），就直接买了3000多元。剩下的钱都买了鸟。 
　　
　　在寺院做完了皈依等，我们到水库放生。那些个甲鱼快速的游到水中，某人说：“王八蛋就是王八蛋，什么感谢、表示都没有、、、”，他的话刚说完，水面上甲鱼此浮彼起，露出尖尖的脑袋，冲着岸上的我们点头。久久不散的场面，在场的人无不感染，恭霖师父说：“它们就是哑巴众生，不会人语，这不来感谢你们了、、、”。我在体验不可思议的同时，被眼前的景象惊呆。如果和我们有过同样经过的佛友，才能知道我当时的心情。 
　　
　　此后我和同修经常的放生，都是要送到寺院做皈依，之后我们到山里、水库去放了。更多的时候，我们来不及到寺院皈依，只好自己念念放生仪规。每一次的放生，心情都是相当的喜悦和安宁。遇到什么就买什么，蛇、鱼、鸟、、、 
　　
　　有一次我到商场给孩子买奶粉，偶然发现大连商场增加了卖蛇的柜台，就留意了一会。每个玻璃柜子里面都是不同种类的蛇，蛇岛的白眉蝮蛇（具毒），南方的各种蛇，很多很多。我刚要离开，其中一个柜子，一条很大很粗黑色的蛇，急速的围绕着柜子转圈。

　　当**近观看的时候，它直直的站立起来，也*近了我。我忧郁着买与不买，它直立着身子，再平行下来，对着我反复的这样。天啊！莫非是在给我磕头，要我救它、、、？在我分别的时候，它的动作剧烈而频繁。我深深的叹气，因为我没有多余的钱。那个时期，我正遭遇经济上的困难。给孩子买奶粉是当下，我不情愿的离开了，但始终想着那条蛇。回到家中，我把看到的事情和妻子说了，她赞同我去买。这条蛇最少2斤重，它的价钱是128元/斤。如果买了，这个月真的不知道要怎么过下去。 
　　
　　我拿了钱，打车急忙来到商场。看到这条蛇还在里面趴着，看到我的到来，再次活跃起来。女服务员（20岁左右）轻松熟练的抓蛇、包好。我佩服服务员的胆量，我很怕蛇，不敢碰一下。过秤的时候，服务员很吃惊，喊来另一人来复称。这条看来很大的蛇，在电子称上不到1斤，显示金额118元。我发觉服务员行走蹒跚，右脚包扎着，肿起很大一块。我问原因，她说溃烂，不知道原因。她忽然问我，买蛇做什么用，我告诉她放生。她停留些时间，不解的眼神问为什么。我脱口而出，蛇灵性很大，吃不得、卖不得，吃了、卖了要遭报应。她停留片刻，低头不语。我说，你看商场卖什么没有啊，你不要再做这个了。她点点头，我知道她在心里已经接受了。 
　　
　　已是傍晚十分，我打车急忙回家。路过家的路上，我看到柳树，就要求停车。我当时很着相，非要柳树枝洒大悲水用。等回到车上，要把装蛇的带子放到脚下的时候，发觉有一百元钱，折叠在地上，里面还有钱。我奇怪，起初上车的时候怎么没有看见，都是在同样的位置。那么大的钱，我不会现在才发现吧？我忧郁起来，是给司机呢还是自己留着，下次放生的时候用。在这个位置上的钱，应该不是司机的。我把钱拾起，留了下来。到了小区的院子，我刚下车，即有人上车。我提着蛇急忙上楼去了，拾到的钱是150元，刚好够我买蛇和做出租车的费用。 
　　
　　在我的佛堂，我匆忙的给它做仪规，等仪规结束的时候，天已经黑了。我来到楼后的山上，找了个地方，打开带子，它马上出来，朦胧中看到它直立起身子，有1米多高，面对着我。我忘记给自己留后路，我背后是陡峭的山坡，如果要走必须要很近的经过它眼前。我没有多想，但感觉它很善意，绝对不会伤害我。就匆忙的走了，没有回头。 
　　
　　我把这个事情和别的佛友说了，大家一致的要求，要把大商所有的蛇都买下来放生。我将那150元拿出一同购买。再到商场，已经找不到原来那个服务员，经打听知道，她已经不干了。这次我们通通将商场的蛇购买下来，费用很大，包括剧毒的蛇. 
　　
　　通通将蛇买下，还是拿到我家里的佛堂和各位居士们做了仪规。当甘露水洒到它们身上之后，那些个蛇剧烈的扭动。之后来到某山开始放生，因有接近200条剧毒的蛇，有些居士都比较害怕，所以放生的事情，落到我的身上，他们在远远的地方观看。我心里很平静，没有害怕的感觉，打开带子，在心里和它们说：“给你们放生，需要你们答应几条要求。1、不得乱跑吓人。2、不得咬人。3、、、”。我反复说了几遍，就打开带子通通的把他们放了出来。很多蛇久久的不愿意离开，在我用树枝迫使它们走后，它们开始慢慢的各自离开。 

　　很多居士知道我们放生毒蛇事情之后，有的纷纷谴责。说不应该放毒蛇等言论，我说如果不放，他们的下场是泡酒，怎么能见死不救？如果放生时候还要挑三拣四，这个放，那个不放，已经失去了放生救命的意义。我相信，那些个蛇会完全接受我的要求，不会伤人的。如今已经四年多了，我从来没有听说，在我们放生的地方，有人看见蛇，或者蛇伤人的事情发生。我的身上以前经常起疖子等，常常的浓血不止。后来不知道什么时候好了，在也没有。偶然间我知道，是放生蛇的果报。 
　　
　　从此以后，我有过的放生行为，都是自己做仪规。很多寺院不给毒蛇等做仪规。在我不断的放生过程，总结出来。放生，顾名思义放其生路。顺其自然的放生，解救刀下，即将屠宰的生灵，为最佳。如果为了功德、数量、任务，已经失去了意义。放生应该随时随地的放，不是统一了时间、地点、物品、数量等。 
　　
　　照毅老和尚，曾经和我说过，看到要被宰杀的生灵，务必救下来，做皈依等，之后放生。不要担心再被别人抓到、、、还说不要参与那些集体名相上的放生、、、我当时没有体会到老和尚的目的。 
　　
　　不久，从某佛学院来了一位密宗师父，领着大家放生约2个月时间。因记住老和尚的嘱咐，没有参与他们的放生。事后才知道，老和尚的智慧不可思议。没有参加他们的行为，是完全正确的。 
　　
　　他们的放生行为，提前定货，造就出很多以此发财的人。不如法的放生行为，导致很多众生死在途中。深刻的教训，我当时忍不住大骂他们。简单的放生，他们复杂的进行，一个接一个仪规，一个接一个回向，等待的结果是众多生灵的死忙。既死，称不上放生了。买的鱼，他们竟然在水库边上，给鱼磕头，呼喊鱼妈妈，引来更多的路人围观。他们的愚痴行为，使人们对佛教产生误解，对佛教徒产生误解，其后果难以述说。 
　　
　　引发我写自己放生的经历，供大家参考。 
　　
　　我赞叹张师兄的发心同时，个人意见是，放生应该是无相的放生，无所求的放生，如果我们放生是为了上师们加持、功德等，如同交易一样，用我们的金钱、时间、贪心来换取功德，换取想要的东西，已经失去了培养慈悲心，放生的真实意义所在。 
　　
　　通过我自己的放生经历，我总结如下，不要刻意的来制定时间、地点、数量、品种等。最好的放生是随时随地，解救刀下生灵。没有条件到寺院，可以自己做个简单仪规，这个仪规早晚课本后面就有。放生了多少，如何如何的，也不要乱和人家说。做了善事与人道，即不是功德，而转化成福报。而福报瞬间就可以消失的，而功德是我们学佛、修道的动力源泉。大家不要忽视这个道理。如果向上面所说，放生的时候有分别的心里，泥鳅便宜，数量也多，那么牛羊数量少，就不放了？众生平等，放生亦如是。如果我们不去分别，随时随地的放生，放生之后不沾沾自喜，就是我们进步的开始。 
　　
　　某日中午，我妻子给我来电话，要我赶紧过去。原来她午休的时候在街上，一个老者追着她卖鲇鱼，她通通的买下，十几条。我开车，她在后面念大悲咒，很安静。等到了水库放生的时候，那些鲇鱼很久不愿意离开，反复的越出水面。什么原因，她放生是虔诚的心，不求任何的回报；再者念大悲咒时候，没有妄想。虔诚的行为，大悲咒的感应不可思意！这样的放生，我很赞叹！ 
　　
　　某日我开车，发觉路边的羊汤馆门前有一只羊，忧郁一会，我还是开车过去，买了下来。如果不买，明天它将是众人的口中之肉。我虽然能力有限，虽明天他们还要屠宰，但是今天的这只养我还是要买的。羊是买了，可送到那里去啊，寺院不会要的。费劲周折终于找人暂时送到农村的一个寺院，离大悲寺太远了，不然就送到大悲寺，那里接受任何放生的生灵。还有一次和佛友买了一只养，实在是没有地方送，只好来到某寺院，绑到门口，僧人出来后，用手指了指，就走了。把这个难题给你吧，我也希望能有一个专门收养放生动物的场所，如同大悲寺一样。 
　　
　　某日在乡下开车中，发觉前面车上有白色的众生，我以为是狗。发觉不对，狗没有如此灵性的眼睛。确认之下，知道是狐狸，四只白色的狐狸很漂亮。我加速超车，停在路边，讨价之后全部买下，虽然很贵，但如果不买，它们的下场是剥皮，用皮制作女士大衣等。买后找到适合它们安全的地方放了。 
　　
　　某日在菜市场看到，现场宰杀的小鹌鹑。我都买下，虽然知道它们活不了多久，但还是买下来。某僧人不同意，说云云。我的理由是，他们在要屠宰的时候，萎靡不振，无精打采，恐慌害怕。如今它们活蹦乱跳，虽然活不了多久，但是它们减少了屠宰的苦，要知道那一时刻，强烈的嗔心、恐怖心它们必入三涂，出而无期。买来听闻佛法，随死因果不同。另外，扭转了杀者与被杀者的因果，这样的放生，也是必要的。 
　　
　　有次去买鱼放生，因经济条件好转些，几乎每次的放生都是统统的买下来。即使条件不允许，在买物的时候，我也不东挑西拣，你给我什么样子的，我就要什么样子的。那个卖鱼杀鱼的人（现杀现卖），满脸的杀气，浑身透者血腥的气味。我们对视的时候，我感觉将要发生什么事情，如果我这个时候及时的走，就好了。他很不讲理，抬高价钱。口中不逊，骂骂咧咧。又想要我统统的买，又要抬高价钱。后来我实在无法忍受，就要走，在走的刹那，他脱口大骂我。我也是血性男人，脾气很大，此时没有了智慧，被境界所转。望看到此文的人，不可学我，当以无我相对待。我在此也忏悔我的行为，将我的错事供养学人。我随即走过来，问你要干吗？虽然他们人多。但他们没有敢动手打我，在推搡中，我更加火暴，今天不给你教训我不会罢休，此时佛、菩萨，一切善知识统统忘记。我当即打电话，给以前的哥们，告诉他们速来。片刻，朋友们开面包车赶来，我如同见了救星。领着他们来到市场，那个买鱼的人，看到我朋友多是刺龙画虎文身的人，当下，老实起来，如同丧家犬。低三下四向我求饶，我丝毫不动心，石头、棒子一起上，打的他倒地不起，摊位也给他砸了。随后我们就四下跑了，他们开车离去，我在满是警察的眼底，轻松的上车，开车离去。其实，被打的家属，正领着警察四处的在找我，我是在他们的眼皮底下，开门上车的。而他们就是没有看见我，任我逍遥离开。 
　　
　　我开车来到一个居士家里，在镜子中发觉自己的眼力充满着暴力，嗔心。不在是以前的平和。就连说话的语气都充满着怨气，当下醒悟，未时已晚了！今在此用我的经历告诉大家，放生不是容易的事情，当每个人要进步的时候，魔障就会来临，考验我们的道心。如同上人所说：“一切都是考验，看你怎么办，如果不通过，还得从头来”。所以，发心买物放生的师兄，不要和人计较。他们的行为已经很愚痴了，我们何必还要和他们计较？如果价钱谈不下来，我们就接受好了，这里都是因果的帐，不是我们能知道的。实在不行，就离开，不要节外生枝。放生的功德难思难意，我们在做这样的事情，考验是再所难免的。

What are the acts of abstaining from killing and releasing

 戒杀与放生的行为包括哪些

 1. Do not kill a living being with your own hands.

　　2. Do not abet others to kill.

　　3. Do not help others to kill.

　　4. Abstain from eating meat.

　　5. Do not engage in trades related to killing.

　　6、Whenever there is worship, regardless of what is being worshipped, use vegetarian dishes, flowers and fruit, not animal gifts.

　　7. If you see someone killing a human being, you should discourage them or buy the animal to be slaughtered with money and release it. If this does not work, or if the person does not sell the animal, then you should have compassion for the slaughtered animal, and even better if you can recite the Buddha's name or mantra for it.

　　8. Do not abuse the animal.

　　9、Other actions that are contrary to killing.

　　10. Abstain from killing and releasing animals yourself, and advise others to do the same. 

   1、不亲手杀生。

　　2、不教唆别人杀生。

　　3、不帮助别人杀生。

　　4、戒除肉食。

　　5、不从事与杀生有关的行业。

　　6、凡有祭拜，不管拜的是什么，一律用素菜、鲜花、水果，不用牲礼。

　　7、见人杀生，应加劝阻，或用钱将临宰之动物买而放之。若劝阻无效，或他不卖，则应对被杀之动物起同情心，若能为它念佛号或往生咒更好。

　　8、不虐待动物。

　　9、其他与杀生行为相反之行为。

　　10、自己戒杀放生，也劝别人戒杀放生。 

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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.

(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：

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