疑心 Doubtful Heart

Terjemahan Indonesia: Hati yang Penuh Keraguan

Read [Power of Guru's Mantra] from this blog?

Let me tell a story. :)

One evening, after Homa event.
About 12 of us were cooling off in a McDonald's outlet.
From my left hand side, a couple AA & BB sat 3 places down.
AA, the wife started to urge BB, her spouse, to voice something.

BB said pretty accusingly: Fashi, why you didn't teach us the Manjusri deliverance mantra for mealtimes?

I asked: O! I didn't? Then what have you two been doing before meals?
(I dine with them often, and when I was doing the Deliverance and Great Mandala Offering, they were also doing likewise with mudra and mantra).

Hahaha!

BB replied: We chant Guru's Mantra.

I said: What's wrong with Guru's Mantra? It is the same and has the same effect!

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YES!
What's wrong with Guru's Mantra?
Hahaha!
The problem is at that juncture, I saw a scary spirit that is bend on mischief in AA!
O! There are more than one in her though.

AND, I remembered when a fellow student emailed to asked me about the before meals ritual, I replied and also sent a copy to AA to share with her.

AH! When one's karmic enemies take control, lots of negatives are created!

I also shared the meaning of Guru's mantra, the long and short version.
It is not the problem of Guru's mantra or any other mantra, BUT the sincerity of the Individual using them and whether using them with Boddhicitta or not!

When you doubt your own Root Guru, you will never ever understand True or Authentic Buddha Dharma!

Doubt is a lethal poison!

Hahaha!

When you act "funny", please remember that there are people that can see through you. :)

Stick close to GM Lu and stay safe!

There is no need to say sorry to me too, just say sorry to yourself for your own choice of actions.


Cheers all.


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

Taking Meat or Vegetarian Meals

Terjemahan Bahasa: Makan Makanan Berdaging atau Bervegetarian

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