in order to support the meditation techniques in such a world where desires have rapidly manifested compared to Buddha’s time – there should be methods to suppress desires – for instance: vegetarianism. Vegetarianism can be regarded as a ‘catalyst’ for the meditative ‘fruit-reactions’ to arise quicker and carried out mire thoroughly. Humans cannot develop love when they can still eat a chicken’s leg, a fish’ a lobster’s flesh or a pig’s heart. Which are living being like us. When people keep on eating more and more animals, the distance between animals and human life becomes indistinguishable – soon there be a day when humans eat each other ?
We can only succeed in meditating if we know how to avoid killing. Eating living beings will slow down the result of meditation for the modern humans, thus easily cause them to give up. As for us the Buddhists, we all know that meditation can only bear fruits when we protect the precepts, but when we eat animals, we not only kill living beings, but also steal from them, since they do not want to give us their life, and they always scream in pain when we take their life away. We use others’ things without permission, thus we break the vow not to steal. (Source: The teachings from the Most Venerable Thich Tri Tinh, First Deputy president of Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Association)
Overall, Buddhist meditation will help humans develop both consciousness and health:
in order to support the meditation techniques in such a world where desires have rapidly manifested compared to Buddha’s time – there should be methods to suppress desires – for instance: vegetarianism. Vegetarianism can be regarded as a ‘catalyst’ for the meditative ‘fruit-reactions’ to arise quicker and carried out mire thoroughly. Humans cannot develop love when they can still eat a chicken’s leg, a fish’ a lobster’s flesh or a pig’s heart. Which are living being like us. When people keep on eating more and more animals, the distance between animals and human life becomes indistinguishable – soon there be a day when humans eat each other ?We can only succeed in meditating if we know how to avoid killing. Eating living beings will slow down the result of meditation for the modern humans, thus easily cause them to give up. As for us the Buddhists, we all know that meditation can only bear fruits when we protect the precepts, but when we eat animals, we not only kill living beings, but also steal from them, since they do not want to give us their life, and they always scream in pain when we take their life away. We use others’ things without permission, thus we break the vow not to steal. (Source: The teachings from the Most Venerable Thich Tri Tinh, First Deputy president of Vietnam Buddhist Sangha Association) Overall, Buddhist meditation will help humans develop both consciousness and health:
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