To get the meat is always necessary to injure or kill, and a noble person will not want to inflict pain to others only to meet his tongue. Moreover, the Shaolin monks learn to fight from the animals, as may prove so ungrateful to their "masters of nature" to arrive to kill them? Eating meat is without any doubt a violent and therefore does not conform to Buddhism. Buddhist doctrine teaches: "Two pillars support the great edifice of Buddhism: wisdom (Maha-prajna) and great compassion (maha-karuna). Wisdom flows from compassion, wisdom and compassion, are one. "The first Buddhist precept enjoins:" Thou shalt not kill, even keep and protect all life ", and texts of Mahayana Buddhism claim that:" Eating meat off the seed of great compassion. "Buddha in his life personified this ocean of compassion, with vegetarian option, which had an essential role in the wisdom preached. A poem attributed to him says: "Creatures without feet have my love. And so (I have) those two feet, and even those with many feet. May all creatures, all things that have life, all beings of any kind, never to see anything that could harm them. Can not ever happen to them no harm. "His early biographers report that considered the desire to eat meat" an instinct born of ignorance (trishna). "The Jataka tales, teach that all men, sooner or later have had bodies of animals and that all creatures have the power to attain enlightenment in a future birth, to kill an animal is a reprehensible as killing a human being.

All Buddhists as the Lankavatara Sutra, and the Surangama Brahmajala, to name a few, support vegetarianism.

In Lankavatara Sutra for example, the Lord Buddha said: "For the sake of love and purity, the bodhisattva (enlightened soul) should refrain from eating meat, which is generated from the seed, blood, etc.. Not to strike terror to living beings, the bodhisattva, who is undergoing a discipline to attain compassion, refrain from eating meat. It is not true ... that meat is an appropriate food and permissible when you are directly responsible for the killing of the animal, when not ordered others to kill him when he was not killed specifically for us. Again ... there will be people in the future ... that under the influence of the desire for meat (trishna), put together many sophisticated arguments, and in many different ways, to defend the consumer. ... But ... meat eating in any form, and in any place is unconditionally and once for all forbidden. I have not ... allow anyone to eat meat, do not allow that now, and will not allow it in the future .... "

Moreover, in Surangama-Sutra says: "And to escape the sufferings of life and to try to reach samadhi (mystic perfection), which is practiced dhyana (meditation). But why inflict suffering on others, when we ourselves are trying to escape? Unless you can control the mind so as to appease even the thought of a brutal act of killing, you'll never be able to escape the bonds of life in this world. After my parinirvana (ultimate enlightenment) in the past kalpa (era) will meet wherever different types of ghosts deceive people and teach that you can eat the flesh and achieve the same lighting. How can a ... bhikshus (seeker) who hopes to learn to liberate others, the living flesh of sentient beings? "

The injunctions of the Buddha put an end to the uncontrolled slaughter of animals, and the authentic Indian Buddhism is still remembered for his emphasis on nonviolence and respect for all life forms. Contemporary Buddhist movements, like the Buddhists Concerned for Animal Rights, the damage done to restore the principles in the traditional Buddhist vegetarian. And some branches of Buddhism, such as the Order and the Shaolin sect Cao Dai, which originated in South Vietnam, now boast two million followers, all vegetarians. L 'ahimsa, respect for life in all its forms, has remained the pillar of support of all schools of Eastern religious thought, and Buddhism in particular.

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阿弥陀佛

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