Buddha's teachings teach about the harmful effects of drinking.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.

The Buddha taught not to drink alcohol, because the greatest harm of alcohol is loss or uncontrollable intelligence. Wisdom is a necessary condition of a peaceful and happy life, and is the ultimate goal of the enlightened and liberated career.

The Buddha taught that: "If you are a Buddhist who has received the Bodhisattva precept, but you have the intention to drink alcohol, it is absolutely unacceptable. Because that is contrary to the status of a Bodhisattva. Because alcohol is the depth of evil, the gateway to death and death. When you drink alcohol, it is easy to create sins. "

For Buddhism, in the sutras and precepts of monastic and lay people, the Buddha taught that alcohol should not be drunk, because the greatest harm of alcohol is the loss of wisdom. Wisdom is a necessary condition of a peaceful and happy life, and is the ultimate goal of the enlightened and liberated career. In the Law on Suspicion, the world does not drink alcohol: "It is better to drink copper water to melt, to be careful not to violate the alcohol" (Ninh Duong's sunshine, the nonsense kidney). In the Sutra Sutra, it says: "People who drink alcohol have 6 errors: 1. Loss of, 2. Sickness, 3. Sickness, fighting, 4. Bad reputation, 5. Run the mind, si, 6. Wisdom is becoming more and more blurred.

For Buddhism, in the sutras and precepts of monastic and lay people, the Buddha taught that alcohol should not be drunk, because the greatest harm of alcohol is the loss of wisdom. 

In the Sutra of Good and Evil Office, the Buddha detailed in detail many harmful effects brought about by individuals, families and societies: "For the world who loves drinking, drunken 36 errors:

That is:

1. People who drink alcohol intoxicately are children of parents who do not know the worship glasses; make me to respectless king. Therefore, my father and son are not on the bottom.

2. Speak clutter and make mistakes.

3. Pham guilty of bipolarity and much talk.

4. If there is something to hide, but when you are drunk, say everything.

5. Swearing at heaven and earth without fear of crime.

6. Located in the middle of the road that cannot go home, everything brought along is gone.

7. Can not correct yourself properly.

8. Walking and falling over, falling back, when I face up to the sky, I turn my head to the ground again, sometimes being stewed, fallen, my body is hurt.

9. Unable to stand firmly, it is necessary to crawl like a crippled person, until the body can stand up, your face and face will be scratched and scratched.

10. The time when a wholesaler is often confused and often strikes offense.

11. Refusing to quit work without worrying about doing business.

12. Objects are lost.

13. Hungry wife and child ignored the thought.

14. Screaming insulting fear of national law.

15. Get rid of all clothes so that your body is naked and walk on the road.

16. Swearing at people's homes, meeting women, girls attract, speak out loudly, offend them, create countless sins.

17. Seeing anyone who comes near wants to fight with them.

18. Screaming thrills the village.

Drunkness can lead to perpetrators (beating, assaulting people and animals), prostitution (sexual misconduct, lewdness with one's wife, close relatives, relatives, and women who are not wives ), disappointed (cursed, scolded, cruel, insulting, hurting others), losing moral character. Illustration

19. Kill animals without knowing the blessed.

20. Furniture in a crushing house.

21. My wife is regarded as a prisoner, drunk and drunk.

22. Close to the evil party friends.

23. Unshakeable and not close to shaking with goodness.

24. Sleep like death, until awake the body aches like the sick person.

25. The things that you eat and drink vomit look disgusting, causing your wife and children to be disgusted.

26. When going anywhere, if you encounter elephants, horses, wolves, because of distraction, you don't know how to be afraid, far away.

27. Do not respect the Dharma, do not respect the kindness, do not respect the monk.

28. Obscene is not afraid to be afraid.

29. Body like a madman makes everyone stay away.

30. Like dead people, don't know anything.

31. Bring alcoholism, yellow body, oysters like ripe fruits. Sometimes your face is scabrous.

32. Thien long, good gods are away because they hate to drink alcohol.

33. Good knowledge is avoided.

34. When he was drunk, he sat squarely, meeting senior officials, taking his eyes and looking fearlessly. If he was beaten, he would close his eyes.

35. After being discharged body was threatened to hell Thai Son, often good prisoner to use the water to pour into the mouth. Luc phu, the five organs are burnt, living bridges are not possible, death is also difficult. Life like that goes through the days of eternity.

36. When the crime of life in hell was satisfied, giving birth as a human being makes the mind impure ignorance.

The Buddha taught not to drink alcohol, because the greatest harm of alcohol is loss or uncontrollable intelligence. Wisdom is a necessary condition of a peaceful and happy life, and is the ultimate goal of the enlightened and liberated career. Photo: Internet

Limiting alcohol is necessary to minimize social unrest caused by drunken behavior, while helping the State reduce the large amount of annual budget that must be spent on the health sector.

Particularly for Buddhists, it is necessary to resolutely quit drinking alcohol. Because alcohol is the cause of the consequences of eclipsing the mind (delusion), losing compassion (due to anger). When drinking alcohol, the Buddhists are no longer wise, agitated, lose their temper, uncontrollable behavior, language and easily transgress gender, creating unwholesome karma.

Drunkness can lead to perpetrators (beating, assaulting people and animals), prostitution (sexual misconduct, lewdness with one's wife, close relatives, relatives, and women who are not wives ), disappointed (cursed, scolded, cruel, insulting, hurting others), losing moral character. Buddhists who are addicted to alcohol will not develop moral and spiritual values, and will not achieve the wisdom that leads to peace and liberation in the present and future life.

1. The Sutra of Longevity The poetic-Vietnamese-poetry (School of 34):

This homeowner, passionate about alcohol has six dangers:

(1) Existing assets are lost, (2) growth struggles, (3) easy-to-penetrate illnesses, (4) honor injury, (5) revealing lore, and (6) mentality harm. This homeowner, passionate about alcohol has six such dangers.

2. Vipaka (8.40):

The Bhikkhu-khưu, drinking yeast, cooking wine, is done, practiced, made full of life, brought to hell, leading to the type of being born, leading to the hungry ghost realm. Results of very mild heterosexual drink of fermented alcohol, alcohol is made to make people crazy.

3. Vera Sutra (Increase of 10.92):

Hey Master, drunk in yeast and alcohol; due to the charm of drunkenness in wine and alcohol, cooking alcohol creates fear of hatred in the present, creating fear of hatred in the future, making the feeling of affection for the mind.

The person who renounces being drunk in yeast and alcohol, does not create a fear of hatred right now, does not create fear of hatred in the future, does not make the feeling of suffering and affection for the mind. For someone who gave up drinking drunken yeast, cooked wine, so this fear of hatred was calmed.

4. Kinh Dhammika (Scriptures 2.14):

Do not live by life, / Drink and drink, / As a layman / Accept this, / Don't make people drink, / Do not accept alcohol / After drinking, / End of the road / Just the drunken fool, / Only do the evil, / And make the others, / Let go of the distraction, / Give up, stay away / This land of merit, / Make mad delusion, / Make fools delight. END=NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.26/4/2019.