Buddha teaches the practice while drinking, eating .VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.

Today on the increasing momentum of mankind to help people enjoy material comforts, but on the contrary, pollute the environment, food and drink are heavily poisoned. Hospitals are overcrowded because the sick people are too many, the main reason is not knowing how to regulate eating and drinking.

Family members with a lot of work, so they do not know how to regulate their body and mind well, so they are easily depressed, suffering, sickness, anxiety and fear. All of us are obscured by ignorance, so when we are in the world, we do not have insight, so we only worry about enjoying our food and mercilessly kill animals. There are necessary things that we do not worry about, just trying to take care of the unimportant part but forgetting the long-term benefits.

In our life, we usually just worry about eating and drinking for that is the main problem. Every night we work hard and hard just to eat and drink so we have a good appetite, so we have to kill the creatures and then indulge, cling to it and suffer bad retribution when we have enough conditions. Eating must be delicious, strange things or delicacy. When having dignity, they eat in front of them, forcing others to provide them with all necessary needs.

As for material food, the Buddha taught people not to eat a lot, just eat enough to keep the body healthy, not to eat what is not suitable for the body. Illustration.

In our body two main organs are kidney and liver, kidney regulate toxins by water and sweat. If the kidneys fail to fail, they can easily develop cardiovascular disease and high blood pressure, stroke and stroke. Eating too much fat and fat from fried and grilled foods, using stimulant drinks like alcohol a lot leading to liver disease, cirrhosis, hepatitis B, C and cancer are inevitable. When the disease has arisen, if not immediately die, it will also waste money, make family and relatives suffer, and easily fall into evil after death. Eating and drinking in this day must be noble and conscious, we accept that if we want to know enough, we will have less illness. Before eating healthy and nutritious foods, one should whisper in the mouth, "only beg for foods that are effective in preventing disease and nourishing mind and body".  

The lay family should eat a lot of vegetables and fruits, eat less meat and less fish and know which option is less poisonous, as a large number of illnesses come from poor eating or not knowing how to choose. pure food. We cut down on fat to avoid heart disease, high blood pressure and liver cancer.

To balance in daily life, our bodies need to get enough nutrients from meat, fish and fiber in vegetables, beans and fruits. Fiber helps in easy digestion and eliminates unnecessary body fat. In general, stewed and boiled foods are better than fried, fried, or grilled. In addition, we should pay attention to the use of yin and yang spices in Vietnamese cooking and eating art. Accordingly, the yin type fish meats are often cooked with spices and vegetables of the yin type and vice versa.

As for material food, the Buddha taught people not to eat a lot, just eat enough to keep the body healthy, not to eat what is not suitable for the body. The Vietnamese way of eating is relatively healthy, but the diet is often habitual, delicious, and palatable, and may lack essential nutrients or nutritional residues.

We have to kill for life because of life to eat the flesh of animals, leading to harm, causing bad karma to repay, we must receive bad karma when we have enough conditions. If, after killing, we have to repent, do many good deeds that can transform bad and evil karma, but the retribution may be somewhat lighter.

Only Buddhism can clearly state the cause of war, killing each other. We can see the fruit, we know the nucleus, just like seeing a melon, we know right away that the melon is from the seed of a melon. At present, the reason that humans suffer from the retribution of war leading to grief and death causing many people to suffer is due to the killing of animals.

There are three main reasons for killing, one is direct killing and the other is inciting others to kill and seeing the killer happily agree. Some people do not believe in cause and effect, and even think that heaven gives birth to all things to serve human beings, so they intentionally kill. Folk have a saying "injustice, left the owner", assuming going through hundreds of thousands of lives, the good and bad karma each person has created will not lose. Should know, there is support between cause and effect, when the cause is fully conditioned, the result will emerge.

When we eat, we conceive that we eat to live, not live to eat, so we master while eating without being misled by greed, so we live simply and meager.

In Buddhism, the issue of eating is not of the utmost importance. Regardless of whether we eat salty or vegetarian, we should eat simple and frugal to spend more time studying and benefit everyone. People want to live a comfortable and free life, they should not depend too much on food.

In short, the issue of salty food and vegetarianism still has many other delicate aspects, in a limited and limited scope, we dare not discuss much, only to repeat the old saying: "Eat to live. We don't have to live to eat. ”That is, people born on this earth, in addition to eating and drinking to preserve lives, we also have to fulfill our responsibilities to our families and relatives and contribute essential benefits. real for society.

Therefore, if a practitioner follows Buddhism whether at home or ordained, we must be aware of this place every time we eat and drink. When we eat, we only know that we are eating salty, sour, bitter, and delicious, we all know clearly. When we eat, we conceive that we eat to live, not live to eat, so we master while eating without being misled by greed, so we live simply and meager.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.1/9/2020.