Eat to live, not live to eat.

All of us being ignorant to the presence in the world do not have discernment, so we just enjoyed the dining worried that heartless killing of animals. There are things that we need not worry, just trying to do my part not mind forgetting important part long-term benefits.

All of us being ignorant to the presence in the world do not have discernment, so we just enjoyed the dining worried that heartless killing of animals. There are things that we need not worry, just trying to do my part not mind forgetting important part long-term benefits. In life we ​​often eat with drink for just worry that a major problem. Dark day we work hard just to eat with a delicious drink that we must kill the creatures and craving, clinging to that bear bad results when sufficient conditions. They must eat great food or delicacies. When there is the ruling on sitting to eat before catching other people to supply fully serve their needs.

Breathing problems are the most important thing in life, but few people think to yourself how long hold your breath just died. In a heartbeat, without breathing in exhaled is dead right. So important that men eating with drink, but do not know how to breathe. Obviously, the most important we neglect, improper work, we endeavor, hard work hard to satisfy the needs themselves. So, we just take care of the daily nourishment of this body which had killed countless animals we eat on our suffering.

Our lives in the present age there are too many diseases of the digestive tract and respiratory arising from eating, breathing properly. Some people are less active limbs so many illnesses arise. Therefore, want healthy body, mind soothing peace we need to know conditioning in eating, know how to breathe properly and to exercise more by Lord Buddha-Bodhisattva, has many industrial penance life, moderate exercise endurance.

For material feed, the Buddha taught that people should not eat much, just eat enough healthy body, should not eat what does not fit to the body. The way people eat relatively healthy Vietnamese but diet is often a habit, palatable and appetizing that may lack the necessary nutrients or nutrient balance.

The vast majority of us are not aware of the importance of water for the body, usually drink less water or drink, use the soft drinks are prepared or too much alcohol. It is best to drink water every day from 2 liters to 2.5 liters of boiled water. Dehydrated body should generate many diseases like constipation, headache, hemorrhoids, kidney stones, kidney failure, high blood pressure, hepatitis B and abdomen or growth, indigestion ...

From there, we easily become prickly, irritable or impatient, annoyed making family atmosphere became tense, take cheerful, happy. The amount of water in the body 70% in all its forms, so the cells and all body parts in a certain amount of water required. In addition to daily washing to clean their skin and smooth, we need to drink water needed to regulate healthy body.

Want to avoid the aforementioned diseases we need to drink lots of water, about two or three glasses immediately after waking up every morning and before bed at night to help the digestive system and circulatory works well, easy dialysis and dispose of any debris out.

Laymen people should eat more vegetables and fruits, eat less meat but more fish must know what kind of options less toxic because a large number of disease comes from eating a poor diet or unknown form of options eat. Reducing fat in the blood will avoid heart disease, high blood pressure and liver cancer.

To balance the diet daily life, our bodies need enough nutrients from meat, fish and fiber in these vegetables, beans and fruits. Fiber helps digestion easier and eliminate these unnecessary fat in the body. Generally, food warehouses and preferably boiled fried, fried, grilled. Also, we should note the use of the yin-yang spices in culinary arts and food from Vietnam. Accordingly, the fish meat is usually kind sound cooking or eating with these spices and vegetables which are positive and vice versa.

Our world today there are so many diseases because of environmental pollution, food boxes and food trash man guzzle. Is anyone sick without sorrow? The first thing we worry about is costly to buy medication seek treatment.

The disease has two forms of malaise and heart disease, but many diseases are caused by the body operating site, wrong use. Ourselves why sick? Because of greed, so we put much eating the tainted food drink into the body. Due to excessive greed want to become psychotic, because we want to take up the body happy, unbelievably happy in the quiche was the cause of the disease.

I do not know to cherish health will hurt this body. Some whole life was always patient, he was so one must know karma sown too much kill harmful organisms.

Let us be regularly practiced penance to stop old now, do not let that again; on the other, or help people save things, so that we will be healed quickly. When patients do seek remedy as a doctor, to the hospital monitoring, and repentance to know, know to do good for evil, the industrial transformation from from all patients.  

Many illnesses derived from circulation status irregular limbs due to less activity. Therefore, one of the most effective prevention is laborious manual operations, exercise, walking, swimming, gardening, housecleaning and bow to the Buddha-Bodhisattva every day. 

One day the Buddha asked the monks: "Network who live for how long?" A teacher replied: "Networks of people living about 80 years". Buddha asks others, he replied: "Networks of people living in the meal." Two Buddhist teachers answered not to accept it. He asks this third party and you answered: "Networks of people living in the breath". Buddha said: "Yes, life long just a breath, by breathing in without breathing out is seen as loss of life".

We can not eat two thirty days without dying, we ourselves had fasted every three to four weeks, each day just to drink half a liter of boiled water, thus overcome life-threatening diseases.

In ancient times, Buddha monks breathing, they know inhalation inhale, exhale I know exhale, and mastered the track without breathing, but only long look out breathing deeply. Thus, the mind and intellect to realize that as they are generated, so that more and better lives or help people save animals.

When the mind calm, empty, less memory thoughts are lucid, spiritual insight unfold. Thus, we get to know the lives of impermanence, life is impermanent and all animals and the like. Our lives short as one breath, because often observe how we'll know as they are so easy to let go of negativity take-yard-delusion that peace and at ease, liberation.

Folk used to say "there is the real new religion", ie there are new business practice. This is not only a fun throwaway sentence that is a fact. Therefore, eating has become a necessity in our daily life we. This is shown by the statement, "betel make the story".

Our forefathers found eating is freedom of every person to folk have said: "goddamned also avoid meals". Society often considered the invitation to eat, drink offer, give each other gifts as an essential relationship of each person. Therefore, "little changed from bread, biscuits return" or "have to go, there are new contentment in love". Of course, there is also a practical need in the fellowship of life.

In order to show the status and importance of man in society should have the "high tray full deck" to describe a meal of powerful elites. Weddings, married husband he must do celebrations is of course; but full months, only cradle, birthday, exams, thriving, even buy the land purchase, promotion and feast to celebrate our family, friends and neighbors.

Dining, partying like long days have become cultural beliefs in folklore that "king also lost by local laws permit." After all, eating is a necessity and also a means to express friendship or relationship with another person in society, but by way of dining culture of Vietnamese people have to eat, they must food was, had been drinking, they must drink to drunk, drunk food with no drinking. So, from that humans increasingly depraved and foolish ego habits that harm people, animals.

The people of the countryside have three main demands of the crowd eating anniversaries, weddings, funerals. Three clusters have become the real needs in life. Urban people are eating swooping roller offset, seen everywhere baked village pubs, great food everything is exposed publicly traded.

Folk have a saying "the first edible sleep, not eating or sleeping lose more money worry", but more important is that we can judge people by how to eat, how to drink, how to talk and how to work . In other words, eating reflects categorical living, way of life, how to live life and manners, look at how diet might know that person or not compassion.

When unknown ancient convent at ourselves we are eating enthusiast, every day must have alcohol, cannabis and girls gu. Pending duck blood pudding made exorbitant, we enlist to cobble together prey by following the vote kite fat pads squeeze sour when the duck salad made alive. Type slobbering like our previous day was no human races who live morally, how could know loving family, so new ones bluff, deceit, cunning and cruel.

Dharma so beautiful, so wonderful, we asked to meet a true enlightened Master level, you better be good teachers had an opportunity to refresh themselves which overcome vile craving with personality harm humans and animals.

As Buddhists we must know the true selection of food and drinks do not adversely affect the body. Vegetarians that eat fake prefer salty foods is dangerous and getting more back to normal vegetables but not enough nutrients.

Fasting during this session to noble and conscious, we accept less know enough so wish will be less sick. Before eating nutritious foods and gentle should whisper in her mouth, "just begging foods that works to prevent disease and to nurture the body, mind lucid". That we live in mindfulness while eating and cooking.

Besides the physical food to feed themselves exist, new spiritual food is really important for everyone in this world. If you live in the monastery, the daily prayer, penitence, sitting meditation, the spiritual closeness of the model level, saw their virtue will help us live better follow.

Vegetarians less illness properly and still live longer healthier lives. Vegetarians also have health benefits such as easier to digest, less than morbidity. Many people around us often feel more secure when living close to vegetarians. These animals eat plants only herb, never kill other creatures, not spook the animals living nearby.

Who voluntarily give rise vegetarians who have vast compassion, as all animals like myself, do not like killing a creature, does not want to see a miserable creature. They understand that these creatures are eager to live fear death, when they were murdered as human suffering is no different.

There are people that they compassionate species little organisms like insects, cockroaches, ants, flies, mosquitoes did not dare to kill us; or larger animals such as chickens, ducks, pigs, cows do not dare to eat meat, they eat vegetarian. But for the family, relatives or people outside society if speaking to a slip, they refused to ignore certain that blaming, cursing qualify.

In our life,  who found the center completely vegetarian diet is very valuable, worthy of respect. It was good fortune for us to carry on the practice of bodhisattva path until a new Buddha fulfillment only. When we hold a vegetarian full instructions not to kill, so we do not harm the reputation, life and family happiness of others.

Today, the cookery program on television shows in the kitchen of the home or restaurant kitchens, as soon as the animals they caught alive in a pan of boiling oil like fish, live crabs in a pot leave broth, roasted in the oven shellfish, or as the first monkey was washed brain surgery live feed. The dainty creature ngoe agonies, painful struggle is like hell on earth.

Fasting for humanity to say not only keep the body healthy, avoid karmic cause and effect, but also has many other benefits for the same can not be said. Greatest practical benefits of vegetarianism is growing compassion to animals and finally end the war because people do not kill living beings karma.

Vegan are mostly vegetables and natural herbs are grown up from ground growth has many nutrients, less toxic to animals. Vegetarians properly clean up the circulation of blood to the body quickly that gentle, relaxed, energetic, good endurance, intelligent and can live longer.

Often the animals are killed while anger or fear will secrete toxins left in the flesh. If we eat that meat, then of course this will be contaminated, fortunately this toxin when having vegetables being settled down somewhat. Fasting can keep long youthful spirit and vitality abundant minded hustler, tender flesh. This is the phenomenon of youth. Conversely, tired body, spirit darker, rough skin, revealing look old before your time.

Killing to eat meat of animals leads to harm caused enmity borrower pays karma, all life had bad press because of the fairness of causality. Life is reported to fast or slow, depending on the intentional and deliberate way to kill harmful organisms. If after accidentally killing are wrong, we must repent good practice can also switch the evil now that retribution can lighten somewhat.

Only Buddhism can say clearly why the war happened. We can see the results to know people, like melons are seen immediately melon seeds from melons that. Currently, the reason human retribution leads to tragic war, death and considerable human suffering is due to make the killing that out.

Killing two main reasons, one was killed and two are directly incited another to kill. If the police make two mature now, when sufficient affinity latest achievement will end the war. Some people are so skeptical of causality, even for things that heaven was born to serve man should wear the killing. Folk have a saying "injustice in bondholders', assuming that undergo hundreds of thousands of lives away, the good and bad karma each person has created nor destroyed. Be aware, there is cause and effect between the support coast, when people see it bear fruit fully conditioned.

Fasting is food grains such as rice, oats, barley, corn, flowers leaves, legumes, tubers and fruits. Vegetarians are eating the food of the animals from large to small species such as cattle, pigs, chicken, fish, shrimp, crab, shellfish etc ... Since all living beings are afraid of death as well as ham child people should Buddha of compassion have advised us to avoid kill harmful organisms. When you kill any animal that they are scared, yell, bestir.

Fasting is not a dish for a delicious change, nor abstain from eating from a doctor, physician counsel that is a practice of compassion.

We try to find out, who do people since it was born and raised until now also want to preserve the life but also killed countless species. At just born but do not know to eat but I breastfeed, but breastfeeding is due to have a drink and eat creatures. Knowing we had eaten fish eat little far from hurting so many animals.

Why do we have to kill animals to eat while we do not need to kill them but still have life through colored flowers with herbs, they can help us stay healthy and minimize job losses the official commercial species? If human life still exist without killing other creatures happy life, how happy.

Why do people kill animals to eat? Since humans are present in this world, they only eat fruit trees and natural crops. At first, the man ate the mushrooms, seeds, flowers, leaves, roots, fruits, trees, meaning eat only plant-based foods only, but gradually people are dobat imitate predatory fish beast devoured each other.

When you see some animals devoured each other in order to preserve life as meat, fish, humans gradually imitate eat. At first I also eat live, later more civilized life should know cooked and processed in many different forms to serve the quiche of ourselves.

The development of mankind growing up of plant-based foods are becoming increasingly scarce, not enough for the consumer so that people from feeding the animals and livestock breeders themselves more. They thought that carnivorous animals will grow healthy enough to do the heavy work, more then they are not aware of the harmful effects of karmic cause and effect problem.

Therefore, with the momentum of civilized human progress today, we have to understand every aspect of life are based on causality. Kill or eat the animals will be killed retribution life back or illness and premature death much.

If Buddhists do not have pity at the sight of killing, eating seeds swallow each other, our compassion with greed, selling lotus encroachment, thereby becoming insensitive and cruel. If we so wish dining to satisfy your craving but heartless killing of animals, the stars may be true Buddhists?

Vegetarians an expression of equality of all living beings, because all beings have Buddha same properties. Humans sowing evil deeds will fall into the animal species to pay foolish killing effect. That is the equality on issues of causality, enjoying blessed healing, suffering from evil.

Some people think: "God all things are born to serve God and the divine human, human being full rights abuse and killing of animals to live in". Whoever follows this tradition was lost himself equal compassion for all beings. The notion "material support personnel" cause people to hate, kill each other in order to protect their privacy rights.

We fast to avoid retribution illness and premature death, but others said that "plants are alive too." Right! Plants are alive, but the plants do not have the feeling, no sense of values ​​its life, anxiety or fear, pleasure and pain as the animal suffering. Man is a creature with high knowledge and experience through thoughtful consideration, man is a dark object in species components.

Therefore, when man is killing now heavier intentional crime, and all the cattle killed due to survival instincts without reckoning. Plants do not have a clear sense, so the Buddha said to eat flowers, fruits and roots of trees do not cause karma, if there is only little influence.

In cases when a disease caused by germs, if medication prescribed by a doctor to kill the bacteria, the physician has cause to kill harmful organisms now or not? This issue is decisive for killing germs, but blessed create greater physician. Phuoc here is saving lives through episodes of illness, besides the money to feed themselves, their families and the voice of praise. In terms of natural causation must be retribution against the same bacteria species, but mild, not significant.

Fasting properly will avoid many diseases, the research scientist nutrients are determined that: "Not only in new fish meat nutrients in legumes, and vegetables are also a lot ". People need to have a new dining preserve the life, if not eaten properly be born many diseases.

Eat vegetables and fruits are the people were relieved, even predatory fish found stinking and heavy body. Therefore, while it is common for cooking spices to cover as much of the foul smell of fish and meat make up the appeal to stimulate the taste of everyone.

Another evidence that some animals eat only grass, trees and leaves have very big body, strong back like elephants, cattle, horses, goats, ... We never eat fish but big, strong powerful and can help much for man.

Fasting is expressed compassion for the animals so the Buddhists to practice fasting from a two day per month, until enough predestined the totally vegetarian. As vegetarians we should change that stop food, can all eat with rice, bread, noodles, noodles ... If not cook will lose nutrients, damage to the digestive tract, not tasty mouth. When cooked boiled should cover, not too ripe or cooked boiled boiled, we cook boiled cooked to order to ensure adequate nutrition.

In the days vegetarians we should reduce the amount of fish meat, fruit and vegetables increased gradually get used to fasting, thereby reducing harmful industrial animal slaughter. As vegetarians we minimize false salty foods, if need be, definitely not fake salty food by losing money without ensuring health due to the chemicals used to keep long vanity.

Currently, these cheaper vegetables, meat and fish, cook quickly, not fussy, indoors no stinking smell of fish meat to a vegetarian diet with the human body and show compassion towards equality all beings. Fasting properly make soft body back healthy, lucid, less sickness, easy to practice meditation, so easily let go of habits, bad habits, so the next life less bad karma.

Currently, the world has a lot of vegans, vegetarians have individual, the group, the Vegetarian Association. In particular, the followers of Hinduism today are vegetarians because absorb his teachings know that giving up eating salty.

In everyday life, if people do not need to diet and still live a normal life, then surely no one fighting, stealing his own interests and his people, so everyone will live happily and well being. That is we are talking about the general scope of humanity.

Particularly in the Buddhist concept of eating with a problem often causes questions, debatable from past to present are vegetarians and vegetarians.  According to Buddhist teachings, to have a full life and full health ability to work, we need to eat a balanced diet, enough to feed themselves. We should follow a proper diet and how much fertilizer protein, fiber, carbohydrate, fat, sweeteners, minerals, calcium, iron, water quality and vitamins in a day so that the body has enough energy and work activities. Too residues and lack of pathogenicity and disease also.

In Buddhism, eating problems are not the most important thing. Although vegetarians or vegetarians we should eat simple, frugal to spend a lot of time for the benefit of all. About eating in the domain of physical and fortification for the four body panels to assume this temporary cultivation of virtue means to enlightenment and liberation day completely. People want to live a life of comfort, in order not to depend too much on eating.

Another fact about the problem vegetarians and vegetarians we need to understand that vegetarians express compassion for all beings. Fashion Buddha in the world, by seeking alms and someone offered anything to eat that, besides the time people are not aware of vegetarianism. Later, Buddhist temples tectonics, the monks have settled place beginner should have to be a vegetarian for cooking. Today, the hermitages, monasteries, Buddhist temples are to donations of money, materials should fully carry unnecessary monks to the market to buy fish, crustaceans, shellfish ...

In Buddhism there are two traditions. Theravada Buddhism, Theravada ie, they eat salty with the concept of the Three Pure Humiliation as Indian Buddhism are vegetarians present. One is not directly kill animals to eat, the second is not sure who incited others to kill, third, does not see the animal killed. In contrast, ancient Brahmanism, Hinduism now, they listen to the Buddha should know now to nourish the body killing is sin, will bounce back retribution killing, they were vegetarians .

World Buddhist majority vegetarians because their majority Buddhist concept in Indian history. Currently, only 4 vegetarian Buddhist countries as China, Vietnam, Japan and Tibet. So vegetarianism, vegetarians in Buddhism have affected the practice or not?

Buddhism is the religion of compassion and wisdom. When Buddha was born as to beg for alms, do not stay in one place for more than three days should anyone do eat it without cooking. Today, Buddhism developed mandatory practice in the temple, not begging for food and to cook on site, if buying fish is considered to be helped.

The notion of Mahayana today for practicing vegetarianism to the Buddhist bodhisattva behavior so that all sentient beings have Buddha nature equal and show compassion not want to damage all animals. Therefore, Mahayana mandatory every monk ordained as monks must Life Bodhisattva world, laymen if found Bodhisattva Life Center are also presented.

Theravada Buddhism own life without sex and eating salty bodhisattva follow Corporal Tam Tinh. In fact, vegetarians or vegetarians are also cultivate both, one sufficient conditions are totally vegetarians, who eat salty conditions are not enough probation and fasting each month from 1 day to 10 days and finally eat fully vegetarian.

In a nutshell, the problem vegetarians and vegetarians are plenty other delicate aspects, within narrow limits and we dare not much discussion, merely reiterates the ancients taught: "Eat to live, but not live to eat. "That is, people born on this earth in addition to catering to preserve the life, then we also have to take full responsibility for the family, relatives and contribution benefits real society.

So, whether Buddhist monk at or ordained must also be aware of this place whenever real life. We need to develop compassion vast mercy who can not fasting for a reason by itself prayers before eating to vegetarianism merits to everyone. Or we join hands and pray for all beings at least are those like my meager meal, because his eating is not harming the animals.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH TAM GIAC .VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN PRAYED BUDDHIST NUN .THICH CHAN TANH.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY.AUSTRALIA,ADELAIDE,SYDNEY.28/7/2015.