Showing posts with label Vegetarian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vegetarian. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Makan Makanan Berdaging atau Bervegetarian



Karya tulis Mahaguru Lu Sheng Yan, Buku No.154 ‘Aura Kebijaksanaan’ 智慧的光環.
Diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Inggris oleh True Buddha Foundation Translation Team
Diterjemahkan ke Bahasa Indonesia oleh Lotus Nino
Sumber: Taking Meat or Vegetarian Meals




Bab 31 – Makan Makanan Berdaging atau Bervegetarian


Suatu saat seseorang bertanya kepada Dalai Lama, “Bagaimana pandangan Buddhisme Tantra perihal bervegetarian dan makan makanan berdaging?”

Dalai Lama menimpalinya, “Saya pribadi seorang vegetarian, tapi para lama tidak bervegetarian.”

Si penanya kemudian mengangkat isu berikut: “Bila seseorang bukan vegetarian, maka ia sedang melakukan pembunuhan. Bukankah hal itu sebuah pelanggaran dari Lima Sila?”
Jawaban yang diberikan oleh Dalai Lama juga ambigu, memberikan kesan bahwa menjadi non-vegetarian bukan berarti membunuh, dan bahwa tak ada hubungan antara membunuh dengan mengkonsumsi makanan vegetarian.

Bahkan Dalai Lama dengan malu-malu tertawa dan mengatakan, “Para lama tidak membunuh demi makanan, dan mereka pun juga bukan vegetarian.”

Saat aku sedang berada di Biara Drepung Loseling dan makan bersama dengan Sang Khenpo di sana, hanya daging saja yang disajikan.

Sejauh yang kuketahui, aturan yang diberlakukan kepada pemeluk agama Buddha Tiongkok ini diturunkan oleh Xiao Yan, Kaisar Tiongkok Wu dari Dinasti Liang, yang memerintahkan agar para bhiksu dan bhiksuni menjalani gaya hidup vegetarian.
Ini merupakan karakteristik Buddhisme Tiongkok, yang bertujuan untuk memelihara welas asih dan menghindari menciptakan karma negatif.

Mengkonsumsi makanan vegetarian tentunya ada pahalanya tersendiri, namun bukan kunci mutlak untuk mencapai kebuddhaan.

Bila bervegetarian sendiri dapat membawa menuju kebuddhaan, maka kuda, sapi dan kambing sudah dari dulu mencapai pencerahan!

Banyak pemula yang mempelajari agama Buddha tidak terbiasa dengan gaya hidup bervegetarian. Jadi mereka disarankan untuk mengkonsumsi ‘tiga daging bersih’
(di mana tidak melihat saat hewan sedang dibunuh, tidak mendengar saat si hewan menangis saat sedang dibunuh, dan diri sendiri tidak secara khusus melakukan pembunuhan untuk konsumsi pribadi).

Hal ini merupakan solusi kemudahan sebagai alternatif pengganti gaya hidup vegetarian.

Lantas apakah praktisi Satya Buddha harus menjalani gaya hidup vegetarian secara ketat?

Jawabanku adalah: “Terserah kamu.”

Namun para praktisi yang memakan daging harus menyucikan daging tersebut dengan ‘meniupkan’ dan menjapa Mantra Penyeberangan Manjushri.
Ini berarti mengaplikasikan metode Tantra untuk menyeberangkan roh-roh hewan tersebut, mengubah daging menjadi makanan yang terkuduskan.

Setelah menyalurkan pahala kepada roh-roh hewan yang dagingnya akan dikonsumsi, maka daging tersebut boleh dimakan.

Ini karena saat kamu telah mengulurkan belas kasihmu dan menyeberangkan roh tersebut, maka sudah tak ada lagi ikatan jodoh karma negatif antara kamu dengan roh si hewan tersebut.

Ada perbedaan dalam pandangan yang diimani oleh tradisi Sutra dan Tantra perihal makan makanan berdaging dan bervegetarian, namun mohon ingatlah ayat yang dibabarkan oleh Sang Buddha berikut ini:
“Seteguk air bersih
Mengandung 84000 ekor cacing
Bila kamu tidak menjapa mantra
Sama artinya dengan melakukan pembunuhan.”

Kebenaran subtil semacam ini harus dipahami secara hati-hati!


Amituofo
Lotuschef
Pure Karma Vihara
True Buddha School

Sunday, March 31, 2013

Lotuschef in Chat - Ignorant and foolish sentient beings?

莲厨谈心 - 无明或愚昧的众生?
Link: http://lotuschef.blogspot.sg/2013/03/blog-post_31.html



This is a newspaper article from the Sin Ming Daily of Singapore.
Seems a fellow client at a local coffee shop sighted a nun in red clothes and two monks eating a dish called "Kway Chap" which is flat-rice noodle in sheets, served with assortments of pig's innards in dark soy sauce.

Mr Lu, the said client, as per the reporter, took a photo of them as shown above. He claimed that he was shocked by ordained personnel who are Eating Meat!!!
The reporters made a trip to the scene and took photos as above and also ask questions of the stall holder in the case. They too claimed to be Shocked by this incident!!! 

Hahaha! They were told by the stall assistant that the monks and nun bought the food from their stall and nonchalantly continue to eat without bothering that there were many "disturbed" onlookers!!!

:) They said they saw them put palms together to pray pray then eat. The stall holder cannot refuse selling to any customers as they are in business! 


They, the reporters, then made another to interview Singapore Buddhist Society's Headquarters and the secretary gave them HIS Private and VERY PERSONAL view on this "Incident"! :)

The Report:- 
Buddhist Headquarters: Inapprpriate Behaviour, Hopefully can Amend.

Buddhist Headquarters pointed out that monks and nun behaved inappropriately and hope they can amend their ways.

The Singapore Buddhist Headquarters' secretary reverend Guang Pin said at the interview that from the photo taken by the reader, the nun is in red robes and hat, and is not Authentic or True Lineage of Buddhist Sectors.

Moreover, the monks looks like belonging to Southern Transmission of Buddhism, should be from Thailand.
"However, these Southern Buddhist Transmission monks should not be sitting together with the female counterparts." 


Reverend Guang Pin said that those from the Southern Transmision Buddhism sector can eat meat, but conditioned that these must be from alms and should not go and buy from coffee shop to eat.


"I gratefully thank the reader for sending the photo, hope that after this piece of news is published, these ordained personnel would amend their inappropriate behaviours. I also believe this is an isolated incident, and won't affect the IMAGE OF BUDDHISM." - Rev. Guang Pin.  

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Question: Did Sakyamuni Buddha said that ordained personnel cannot eat meat?
Hahaha! 

[Southern Transmision Buddhism sector can eat meat, but conditoned that these must be from alms and should not go and buy from coffee shop to eat.]
Thus, do you all know that this NUN is doing offering to 2 visiting Sanghas?
Hahaha!


Did Sakyamuni Buddha leave words that disciples can [slander/defame] other Sanghas, other Buddhist Sectors?


In the 9 Vehicles of Cultivation, do you all know that Mahayana is third from the bottom of the list?  That is to say that from the Top or First Vehicle, Ati Yoga, Mahayana is in 7th place!


Question: The spokesperson from Buddhist HQ, have you attained Perfection Mahamudra of Ati Yoga? Attained Buddhahood too?

Hahaha! 

Sakyamuni Buddha when served alms that are mouldy: Question: Buddha has Food Transform Dharma or Method, has spokesperson for HQ heard of these?


The nun/bhikkhuni in the photo, is a Tantric cultivator, and pertaining to Food Transformation in Offering to Root Guru,  Topmost to All Buddhas & Boddhisattvas; Subsequently to all Heavens; downwards to all beings of the 6 Realms; that is First [Purify] then offer Food, understand and performs all these at ease! 


Furthermore, Buddha shared 5 Wisdoms and within is the [Wisdom of Equality], do you considered his statements as nonsense or garbage?


Do you all now that within [Boddhicitta Dharma] there is one topic called [Mutual Exchange Dharma]?

Hahaha! 
This is one of the topic that Serlingpa transmitted to Atisha!

Do you all also know that when you cultivate to [Formless Realm] or Sambhogakaya stage, there actually is no Sexual differentiation?
That is no Male nor Female, kind of segregation!

Humbly advice all Buddha's students; ignorants, lacking in knowledge, foolish, and etc; sentient beings, DON'T KNOW, DON'T ACT KNOW! 


Do not Mislead Sentient beings AW!!!
Breaches Disciplines too AW!!!
Also Breaches [Oral Karma] and etc... AW!!!

Hahaha! 


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Taking Meat or Vegetarian Meals





The Aura of Wisdom 
By Living Buddha Sheng-yen Lu
Translated by True Buddha Foundation Translation Team
This was translated from Grandmaster Lu's 154th book, 智慧的光環.

CHAPTER 31 - Taking Meat or Vegetarian Meals
Someone once asked the Dalai Lama, `What is Tantric Buddhism`s stand on vegetarianism and meat eating?`

The Dalai Lama replied, `I personally am a vegetarian, but the lamas aren`t.`

The questioner then raised this issue: `If a person is not a vegetarian, then he or she is killing. Isn`t this a breach of the Five Precepts?`
The reply given by the Dalai Lama was ambiguous, suggesting that being a non-vegetarian does not imply one is killing, and that there is no connection between killing and consuming vegetarian meals.

In fact, the Dalai Lama laughed embarrassingly and said, `The lamas don`t kill for food, neither are they vegetarians.`

When I was at Drepung Loseling Monastery having our meals together with the Khenpo, only meat was served.

To my knowledge, the Chinese Buddhist orders were commanded by Xiao Yan, the Chinese Emperor Wu of the Liang Dynasty, to instruct their ordained monks and nuns to adopt a vegetarian lifestyle.
This is characteristic of Chinese Buddhism, which has the intention to nurture compassion and avoid creating negative karma.

Consuming vegetarian meals in itself has its merits, but it is not a definite key to attaining buddhahood. 

If taking vegetarian meals by itself could lead to buddhahood, horses, cows and sheep would have long attained enlightenment!

Many beginners in Buddhism are not accustomed to sticking to a vegetarian lifestyle.
It is advisable that they consume the `three pure meats`
(no personal sighting of the animal being killed, no actual hearing of its cry while it is being killed, and no killing done by oneself specifically for personal consumption).

This is a convenient solution as an alternative to adopting a vegetarian lifestyle.

Should the True Buddha practitioner adopt a strict vegetarian lifestyle?

My answer to this is: `It`s up to you.`

But any meal-eating practitioner must purify their meat by `blowing a gust of air` and reciting the Manjusri Deliverance Mantra. 
This is applying the Tantric method to deliver the souls of the animals, transforming the meal into purified food. 

Upon offering merits to the soul of the animal whose meat is to be consumed, the meat can thus be eaten. 

This is because when you have extended your compassion and delivered the soul, there exists no bond of negative karmic affinity between you and the animal soul.

The views held by the Sutric and Tantric traditions on taking meat and vegetarian meals are different, but please remember this verse expounded by the Buddha:
One mouthful of pure water 
Contains eighty four thousand worms 
If you do not recite a mantra 
It is as good as killing.

Such subtle truth must be discerned carefully!

Amituofo
Lotuschef
Pure Karma Vihara
True Buddha School