How to eat properly according to the Buddha's teachings? 21 A story in the Buddhist legend tells that, when the Buddha was still in the world, one day Ananda asked the Buddha: "Venerable Buddha, why in the past did the Buddha feed his disciples the five pure flesh (five kinds of meat)? Purity includes: meat that we eat without seeing people kill; meat that we eat without hearing the sound of the animal being killed; meat that we eat that we don't think people will kill for us; meat of an animal that dies on its own; meat that other animals eat without being killed. surplus), but now He forbids eating fish meat? The Buddha replied to Ananda: "Since your level in the beginning is still low, you can't receive the Mahayana teachings and practice properly, so while I was still speaking the Hinayana Dharma, it was a means for you. he temporarily used the five pure humiliation. Up to now, your level has been high and you have received the Mahayana teachings, so I forbid eating fish and meat. If you eat that, you still break the precept to kill. If you don't directly kill, you will also indirectly kill, losing the seed of equality and compassion, you can't practice to become a Buddha." Discussing the meaning of this story, there is a view that the Buddha's teaching is clear: Vegetarianism, in other words not eating animals, is part of the practice of the Dharma; uphold the precepts, cultivate compassion and the spirit of equality. It is one of the important practices of Buddhists in both the Theravada and Mahayana traditions. Buddhists are people who have followed the path of compassion, so there is no reason not to practice compassion in their lives from thoughts, words, to eating. But there is also the view that, according to Theravada Buddhism, vegetarianism was not present in the time of Shakyamuni Buddha in the world. Therefore, Theravada Buddhism advocates eating any way, Dependent on eating and drinking so that you have enough health to practice the Dharma. Theravada Buddhism does not pose a problem of vegetarianism and salty food because "liberation is not from the place of eating, but from the purity of the three karmas of body, speech and mind". Moreover, the Buddha himself, after hearing Devadatta's request to issue a precept forbidding monks from eating fish, he did not accept. The proof is in the Jivaka Sutra, he teaches: "O Jivaka, I say in three cases, meat is used (three pure flesh): not seen, not heard and not suspected (killed for oneself). I say in these three cases, Jivaka, that meat is consumed." Thus, the monks of the Buddha's time in the world lived off the alms-food offered during their alms round, completely indistinguishable from vegetarians, with the exception of the real things outside of the Three Pure humiliation. When Mahayana Buddhism was born, in almost all Mahayana sutras there is no mention of the Buddha's permission to eat meat. Not only that, these sutras also clearly state the prohibition of eating meat. In the Lankavatara Sutra, chapter 8, On the eating of meat, the Buddha taught: "Mahāmati, the food of the wise does not consist of flesh and blood. Therefore, the meat of a dog, a cow... or the flesh of a person, or the flesh of any other living being, the bodhisattva should not eat meat. Mahāmati, a bodhisattva abides in great compassion, loves sentient beings like an only child, therefore must abstain from eating meat…”. Next, the Buddha gave eight reasons why Buddhists should not eat meat. In it, the last reason the Buddha admitted was that "the means of teaching the Dharma feed the Three Pure Body and the Five Pure Body" but "Now in this sutra, all means, at any time, of any kind are removed, ordinary beings of the flesh, all ends." It can be said that the Lang Gia Sutra is the milestone of the time to cancel all means of eating pure flesh that were previously prescribed by the Buddha.END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=BUDDHIST DHARAMA WHEEL GOLDEN MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.4/1/2023.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THE WOMEN OF THE SAKYA CLAN CHAN TANH.