Food offerings story deaths (Money Than Matakabhatta)

If beings knew ...,

This story, as in the United Vienna, the Master told about the food offerings to the dead. During that time, many people killed many sheep goats ... to offer food for relatives shared destiny. The monks saw them do so, asked the Master:

-  Buddha, killing far more people lives many beings for food offerings for the dead, Buddha, there happily, does not benefit?

Exalted says:

-  Worshipping such food for the dead without any benefit. When killing, how can the benefits be? In ancient times, the wise middle of nowhere seat lecture, stating dangers of this practice, making the whole population in the realm of Hell-line-abandon such behavior. But now, being born accumulate property, so that action arose.

Say finished, Bhagavan told the story past.

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Long ago, when Brahmadatta was reigning in Balaam complaints, a Brahmin understanding Vedic three volumes, a famous master list four winds, want food offerings to the dead, to start a goats and make disciples.

- This, dear children, be led this goat to the river, bathe it, wearing a garland in his neck, giving it half a league rice eating, grooming it and bring it back here.

The disciples obeyed, took goats to the river, bathe it, grooming it, then let it stand on the riverbank. Levees that see their work from the previous generation did, thinking: "Today, we will be free of suffering," so it feels happy, laughing loudly as smashed chair, stop and think: " this Brahmin, you kill me, will bear our suffering erstwhile ", it starts pity people Brahmin and crying loudly. The young man asked him:

- Hey you, you laugh out loud and cry loudly. What's because you laugh, because what's you crying?

- Ask that question in front of his teacher!

They bring the goat was gone, and report to the teacher know. The master heard the story, asked the goat:

- Hey goat, why are you and why are you laughing crying?

Know where the goat by his previous life, remember your work done, and told the Brahmin:

- Hey Brahmin, erstwhile, like him, was a Brahmin study well the technical notes, want food offerings for the dead, who killed a goat to make offerings. Because only a goat killed, one was beheaded in the four hundred and ninety-nine times in life and death. This is the fifth time last cent of our life and death. Today, we'll get rid of that pain. Think so, I feel happy, because this predestined us laugh. And I cried, because I think that just because killing a goat, one must suffer beheading five hundred times. Today we will escape suffering it. But this Brahmin, because kill me, would like us suffer beheading gone five hundred lives. Because his mercy, I will cry.

- Hey goat, do not be afraid, I will not kill you!

- Hey Brahmin, he was talking about? Oil or not he kill me, today I can not escape!

- Hey goat, do not be afraid, I will protect you, will go with you!

- Hey Brahmin, small replaced his defense and aggressive replacement was bad karma to do!

Area Brahmin goat drop out.

And together with the disciples, the Brahmin follow animals. Goat has just been released, stretching their necks, to the grass that grows behind rocks, and began to eat grass. And after that, the rock struck by lightning on his back, a piece of broken rock, fell on his neck goats are reaching out and cut off his head. Many people gathered to watch.

At that time, the Bodhisattva was born as gods trees in that location. With the power of the gods, seated Bodhisattva-old fetters of nowhere, out of the public stood watching, and thinking: "These beings, if known to be the result of such evil, evil will not do again! "Then the sweet sound, his last sermon verse:

If beings knew

This is born of suffering,

Will no longer sentient

Killing more charming,

For whoever killed charming,

Will have grief, suffering.

Thus, the Great Master Career sermon makes people afraid of hell. And many who heard the sermon, said fear hell, should abandon killing. Bodhisattva sermon is done, the public residing in the Five Precepts, then later followed his career. As for the masses, take refuge in the Bodhisattva's advice, after making merit as alms etc .. are born to heaven, filling the city of the gods.END=NAM MO CAKYA MOUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTENMENT.VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.14/3/2017.