 | 與動物和平共存 編號：784 |
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清海無上師以英文講於福爾摩沙西湖國際禪五 2007.02.22（DVD#784）
我希望有一天人類能覺醒。要知道，動物和我們是一樣的，他們與我們相似，只是形體不同罷了。他們就像是不同的花，而我們也都是花，這個道理不是很簡單嗎？但是要將這個觀念深植人心，卻是多麼困難！我很高興你們相信我，也很高興你們遵循愛心的生活方式，與動物和平共存。（大眾鼓掌） |
任何人因為無明而犯錯，我們當然不會譴責他們，但是我真的為動物們感到難過，也為殺害動物的人感到難過，因為以後那些業障會加諸到他們身上。幻境之王所創造的每樣東西確實都要償還，而且是加倍償還。你不能在地球上付一塊牛排的錢，吃下去，然後認為這樣就沒事了、扯平了。不，不是這樣！因果教主不要你的錢，他要用你的肉來還。在幻象的世界裡，是以眼還眼、以牙還牙的。
在物質的世界就是這樣，以眼還眼、以牙還牙，沒有寬容可講。你也無法拿任何東西去賄賂因果教主，他完全不收賄賂，即使你把全世界都給他，他也不在乎，或是把整個三界給他，他都不在乎。因為那是他的工作，他就是喜歡檢查人，喜歡看看是誰在做壞事。他甚至會引誘人們做壞事，看看你有多堅強、有多高貴、心裡有多少力量可以抵擋誘惑。
「愛你的鄰居」意指愛所有眾生
我們所能犯的最嚴重罪過，莫過於傷害其他眾生。所以有些人我已經努力教導他們不要殺生、不要吃肉，他們卻仍然殺生、吃肉的話，我就不想再知道他們的事。如果你以前不知道而做錯了，沒關係，每個人都會做錯，這個世界的情況造成你那麼做。小時候你不懂怎麼做才好時，你的父母也會強迫你那麼做。但如果你已經知道那是不對的，卻還是繼續做下去，只因為放不下自己的口腹之慾，而那只是小小的犧牲，微不足道！即使你還想吃肉，那也只是很小的犧牲，更何況我們在蔬果類中有這麼多美味的素菜。甚至所有的宗教都告訴我們，那才是我們的食物，但是沒有人想看那一頁，很多人都不想聽。「愛你的鄰居」也包括動物在內！如果我們不能愛動物，那還能愛什麼鄰居呢？鄰居包含所有眾生。耶穌並沒有說：「愛你的鄰居--男人、女人和小孩。」祂只說：「愛你的鄰居。」
誰是我們的鄰居？大家都是！「大家」包括人類和動物在內，狗、貓、鳥、鴨、鵝等等，無論是野生或馴養的都是。你能想像一下如果你是動物，像這樣在人群中生活嗎？他們每天都得為自己的性命擔憂，你能想像我們所加諸於他們身上的那種生活嗎？假如我們人類是與其他巨大的生物住在一起，而他們隨時會把我們一個個殺來吃，你覺得如何？很無助、很悲慘，是不是？而且好悲哀、好可怕！動物的感覺就像那樣。他們沒有對我們做什麼，而我們卻讓他們遭受各種苦難。他們有的甚至還為我們工作，幫助我們，我們到頭來卻把他們殺來吃，一句「謝謝」都沒有，完全沒有！甚至連一個安寧、有尊嚴的死亡都沒有！我們殺他們、吃他們，毫無憐憫心，殘忍無情，甚至也沒有想過我們絕不該那麼做，完全沒有理性！我們做起來就像是天經地義的事一樣，卻還自稱為人類，有聰明才智，貴為萬物之王。我們戴在頭上的是什麼樣的冠冕啊？
在這個世界上，如果我們殺了人，就要背上「謀殺」的罪名，我們必須去坐牢等等，但是我們每天殺害無數的動物，卻沒有人把我們關進牢裡，是不是很令人驚訝？而動物是多麼無助！他們害怕與我們住在一起，每天都很擔憂。怎麼會有這樣的世界呢？我們怎麼把自己變成這麼可怕、凶惡的眾生，讓所有其他眾生都感到害怕？我們主宰了整個世界所有其他眾生，有時還搶走他們的棲息地，讓他們每天都為自己的生命擔心害怕。我們甚至讓人類自己的兄弟姊妹也感到害怕，用武力、用槍砲、用原子彈、用經濟制裁等各式各樣的方法。
我們將恐懼帶到彼此的生活之中，怎麼還能自稱為萬物之王？這一點我真不明白。我不知道我們頭上值得戴什麼樣的冠冕，也不知道誰會把冠冕加到我們頭上。我們所有的兄弟姊妹都怕我們，我們每天在世界許多角落用不同的方式殺害他們，不只是用槍砲刀械而已，而且也恃強欺弱，製造精神上的迫害、情緒上的壓力以及肉體上的痛苦。我們日復一日那樣讓彼此痛苦，如何還能自稱為文明的人類及萬物之王？
想成為高貴的人，只要做到不傷害眾生
在這新的一年，世界上每個人都應該重新想一想如何規劃他們的生活，選定生活的方向，以及在他們還有時間改正時，此生所應達成的高雅目標。要成為高貴的人非常簡單，不是只有聖人才能做到，不是只有出家人或聖潔的人才能做到；只要讓動物們自在地生活，我們只要做到這樣，就已經很高貴了，立刻就很高貴。所有的動物都會在心中稱讚你，為你祈禱，你會更長壽，你的快樂會加倍，你的健康會更有保障，你的愛會不斷擴展，然後你就成為一個偉大的眾生了。不需要清海師父、不需要印心，這些都不用，只要放下肉，你真的就能成佛，或至少達到第三界。（大眾鼓掌）
佛祖說：「放下屠刀，立地成佛」，就是這個意思，真的如是。只要你不殺害、不吃任何動物，真的就能馬上達到第三界；第三界中較低的境界，不過還是第三界，這是肯定的。但是有多少人這麼做呢？有多少人願意犧牲小小的口腹之慾，做個高貴的眾生，做個有慈悲心的人，值得被稱為萬物之王呢？那我根本不需要再去教人，不需要再做任何事了。這樣好多了，動物們會很快樂，人類會更為提昇，醫院也會減少，而且不會再有爭戰。因為每個人都吃素，大家就會有足夠的食物來維生，整個地球會有足夠的食物來供應每個人，不用付出代價。只要我們能採行素食，這個星球的資源就會自動以某種方式平均分配，不會再有人挨餓受苦，真的如是！但是有多少人願意採取這種高貴的行為呢？
喚醒內邊的高貴品質
我希望在這個新年，世人也能更聰明些，更往內省思，明白自己內邊真正想要什麼，而不是被外在誘惑，受到否定力量的影響而變得盲目。人們應該堅強、高貴，並往內觀照，看看自己內心的想法是什麼，了解內心真正想告訴自己什麼。如果他們真的往內看，就會找到；「敲門，門就會開啟」（馬太福音第7章第7節）。
所以我希望他們能真正往內觀照！因為如果他們往內看，就會明白自己是個高貴的人、高貴的眾生，而殺害並食用比我們弱小的無辜動物，有損我們的尊嚴。有些動物雖然體形比我們大，我們也照樣欺凌他們。連海裡的魚，他們沒傷害任何人，只在自己的世界裡游來游去，我們也把他們捕上岸，殺來吃。或是在空中飛翔的動物，他們沒有傷害任何人，沒有犯任何過錯，我們也把他們射下來吃。還有在叢林及森林中的動物，他們生活在自己的天地裡，不傷害任何人，但我們仍到那裡去獵捕他們，把他們殺來吃。
你們認為那樣做高貴嗎？任何人都知道那並不是高貴的行為，對嗎？如果一個聰明有力的強者，殺害一個又小又毫無抵抗力的弱者，那怎麼能算高貴呢？即使在中國及悠樂（越南）的武術規矩也講：在戰鬥中，不傷害落馬之人。如果一個人已經落下馬來，就不要殺他，我們是那樣說的。那麼對於更弱小的動物，又該如何呢？他們看到人就已經很害怕，嚇得無法動彈，我們怎能不同情他們、可憐他們，放他們一條生路呢？當動物已經驚嚇害怕，為求活命而拼命逃跑、懇求饒命，怎麼可能有人還是毫無憐憫之心？那真是令人難以置信！
在新的一年，或許我們所有的願望都會實現，所以讓我們祈願這樣的事不會再發生，而且所有的人類都會覺醒，了悟自己在出生前內心高貴的目的，明白自己剛出生時是多麼高貴、純潔和英勇！讓我們祈願人類能喚醒自己內邊高等的品質，那些讓我們值得成為萬物之王的品質。一旦他們喚醒這些高等的品質，那麼我們大家就身在天堂了。如果不再有殺戮，地球就真的是天堂了。（大眾鼓掌）
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I hope that one day the human race wakes up. We have to know that animals are the same as us. We are alike, just a different form. They’re just different flowers, but we’re all flowers. How simple can that be? Yet how difficult it is to ingrain into someone’s heart. Well, I’m glad you believe me, and I’m glad you follow the loving way of life, of “live and let live.” (Applause) |
Anyone who acts out of ignorance, of course we don’t condemn them. But I do really feel sorry for the animals, as well as the ones who kill them, because the karma will be upon them later on. Truly, the King of Illusion wants every piece of his creation to be repaid, and many-fold. You cannot just pay for a piece of beefsteak on Earth, eat it, and think that’s ‘finito,’ or it’s even. No, it’s not! The Lord of Karma doesn’t want your money; he wants your flesh. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, in the world of illusion.In the physical world, it is only like that - an eye for eye, and a tooth for tooth. There’s no mercy and nothing you can bribe the Lord of Karma with. He doesn’t take bribes, not at all. Even if you give him the whole world, he doesn’t care, or the whole Three Worlds, he doesn’t care, because his job is that: He likes to check on people; he likes to see who is doing bad. He even tempts them to do bad, to see how strong you are, how noble you are, and how much power you have in your heart to resist temptation.
“Love Thy Neighbor” Means Everyone
To harm other beings is the most terrible sin we can commit. So, if the ones I have been diligently teaching not to kill and not to eat meat are still going out and doing that, I don’t want to know about that person. If you didn’t know it before, and you commit it, it’s okay. Everyone does it; the world makes you do that. Even your parents forced you to do things when you were young and you didn’t know any better. But if you know already that it’s not right and still continue doing that, just because you could not forget your taste palate – it’s just a small sacrifice, very small! Even if you still want to eat meat, it’s a very small sacrifice, especially when we have so much beautiful vegetarian food in the vegetable kingdom. Even any religion will tell you it’s the food for you to eat, but no one wants to see that page; not many people want to listen to that.“Love thy neighbor” includes our animals! If we cannot love animals, then there will be no more neighbors for us to love. Neighbor includes everything. Jesus didn’t say, “Love thy neighbor: man and woman or children.” He said, “Love thy neighbor.”
Who are our neighbors? Everyone! Everyone, including humans, animals, dogs, cats, birds, ducks and geese - wild or tame. Can you imagine just for one moment if you were an animal living among humans like this? Every day they fear for their lives. Can you imagine the kind of life that we impose upon them? Suppose we humans were living together with other giant kinds of creatures, and all the time they killed us to eat, one by one. How would you feel? Helpless and miserable, no? And so sad, so terrified! It’s the same with animals. They don’t do anything to us. But we, on the contrary, subject them to all kinds of suffering. Some of them are even working to help us, and we still kill them to eat at the end. No “thank you” to them, nothing! Not even a peaceful and dignified death. We kill and eat, without mercy, without remorse, without even thinking that we should never do that, without even thinking anything. We just do it like a natural thing, and we call ourselves human, intelligent, the crown of the creation. What kind of crown could be put on our head?
In our world, if we kill someone, it’s called murder. And then we have to go to jail and so on. But we kill billions, trillions, zillions of animals every day, and no one puts us in jail. Isn’t that amazing? And the animals are helpless! They’re fearful living with us, fearful every day. How can this be, a world like this? How can it be that we make ourselves into such fearful, vicious kinds of beings, feared by all other creatures? We dominate all the other creatures in the whole world; we take away their habitat sometimes, and we make them fear every day for their lives. Even our brother and sister human beings, we make them fear also: by power, by guns, by atomic weapons, by economic sanctions, all kinds of things.
We put fear in each other’s lives. How do we call ourselves the crown of the creation? That, I don’t know. I don’t know what kind of crown that we merit to put on our head, and I don’t know who would put that crown on our head. All our brothers and sisters are fearful of us, and we’re killing them every day somewhere on the planet in different ways, not just by guns or knives, but by bullying, by causing spiritual oppression, emotional stress and physical suffering. We cause that to each other, day by day. How can we call ourselves civilized human beings and the crown of the creation?
To Be Great, Simply Do No Harm
In this new year, everyone in the world should rethink the program or the direction that they should lead their lives, and the truly noble goal that they should reach during their lifetime, while they still have time to correct it. To be a noble human being is so simple. It doesn’t need a Saint to do it. It doesn’t need a nun, a monk or a holy personage. Just leave the animals alone; that’s all we have to do. Then we are noble already, immediately! All the animals will praise you in their hearts, and will pray for you. Your life will be lengthened, your happiness will be multiplied; your health will be more assured, your love will expand to no end, and you’ll become a great being already. No need for Master Ching Hai, no need for initiation, nothing of that yet. Just leave the meat alone; then you really can become Buddha, or at least reach the Third Level. (Applause)
The Buddha meant just that when He said, “Put down the butcher knife, and you can become Buddha.” It’s truly like that! If you don’t kill or don’t eat any animals, you truly can immediately attain the Third Level - the low one, but Third Level. That is for sure. But no, how many people do that? How many people can sacrifice just a little taste of the palate to be a noble being, to be a compassionate person worthy of being the crown of the creation? Then I don’t even need to go teaching; I don’t need to do anything anymore. It would be much better; and the animals will be happy, humans will be more elevated, and hospitals will be fewer. Fighting will be no more, because everyone, through the vegetarian diet, will have enough food to sustain themselves. The whole planet will have enough food for every single person on the planet, without any cost. If we are just vegetarian, then the planetary wealth will automatically somehow be divided evenly, and there will be no more hunger. Truly, it’s like that. But how many people want to do this noble deed?
Awakening the Noble Quality Within
I just hope this New Year that the planet people will also be very smart, much more contemplative inside, and see truly what they want within, not being blinded by outer temptation and influences of the negative power. They should be strong, noble, and looking within themselves to see what is in their heart and what truly their heart wants to tell them, because if they do look, they will find it. “Knock, and it will be opened.” (Matthew 7:7)
So, I do hope they really look! Because if they look, they will see they are a noble person or a noble being, and it’s not within our dignity to kill and eat some innocent creature that’s not even our own size. Some are bigger, and we bully them too. Even the fish in the sea, they do no harm to anyone; they’re swimming in their own world, and we fish them up, kill them, and eat them. Or, the animals in the air, they’re flying there, doing no harm to anyone, doing nothing wrong, and we shoot them down and eat them. And the animals in the jungle or in the forest, they also mind their own business; they don’t harm anything, yet we go there, hunt them down, kill them, and eat them also.
Do you think that’s noble? Anyone would know that it’s not noble, is it? How noble can it be when a strong person with all the power and intelligence goes and kills someone who is weak, small and defenseless? How noble can that be? Even in China and in Au Lac (Vietnam), the martial arts rule is: If a person has fallen from their horse in battle, you don’t wound or kill him. If the person is already down, that’s what we say: Don’t kill him. So, how would it be for a smaller animal? They’re already frightened and paralyzed at the sight of a human! How can we not feel compassionate and sorry or pity, and let him live? How could a human being not feel any pity in his heart when the animal is frightened and running, running, running for their life already, begging for their life? It’s incredible!
In the new year, maybe all our wishes will come true; so let’s wish that these things won’t happen again, and that human beings, all of them, will wake up to the noble intention inside their heart from before they were born, or when they were just born and they were noble, pure and heroic. Let’s hope that the human beings will awaken within themselves these superior qualities, which make us the crown of the creation. Let them wake up these superior qualities, and then we will all be in Heaven. Really, if there’s no more killing, this planet shall be Heaven. (Applause) 
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