4 reasons Buddha taught not to kill.VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY=THICH CHAN TANH.

Buddhism advises not to kill sentient beings for four main reasons: that is fairness, respect and equality, cultivating compassion and avoiding encountering cause and effect, retribution ...

“Buddhism advises us not to kill sentient beings for four reasons:
1. Respect for fairness. - We consider our life to be precious, an absolute treasure. If anyone conspires to be harmed, he or she is to defend against life completely. I already know that my body is precious, why do I want to trample my life? By extension, animals also appreciate their lives. Like a cow or a pig about to be hit on the head, throwing blood, we see their fierce resistance, their extreme pain, with screams, rows of escaping death! According to righteousness, that we do not want anyone to do for us, then we should not do for others, or other species. The Buddha said: "Everyone is afraid of the sword, everyone is afraid of death. So let your heart out, don't kill! Don't tell!"

2. Respect for the Buddha nature equally. - We each have different bodies, but still have the same Buddha nature. The Buddha nature that is equal cannot claim any reason to say that Buddhahood in a person is more valuable than in things, in this skin color is more valuable than in the other skin color.

3. Nurturing compassion. - The compassion of the Buddha regarded all beings as children, so he did not allow his disciples to kill living beings, in any case. Because of the killing of an animal or the unkindness of killing an animal for nothing, the same cruelty as killing a human. Mercilessness causes others or other things to chase, groan, writhe in peach blood, in hot tears before taking the last breath, is to kill their compassion, is to kill the germ of love very precious in our souls. German Confucius taught: "Any period of any real ants, any ants, any unborn, ants, etc.". (meaning to hear the cry of an animal, not willing to eat its flesh; to see it live, to see it die). So people with compassion or kindness do not dare to kill people or animals.

4. Avoid cause and effect retribution. - When we kill a person or an animal, their resentment overflows hard to quell. They were because of her, because of her weakness, they were killed by me. Meanwhile, they embrace hatred, wait for revenge, or the children of their relatives will take revenge. So every day we sow hatred for people and things, accumulated for days, the injustice is bigger than our strength, as long as we are killed again. The more you create karma, the more you plunge into suffering. The Buddha taught: "Ordinary beings kill the mind, the more they grow, the more suffering karma rotates in samsara and there is no day out" (The Lankavatara Sutta).

For these reasons, the Buddha forbade Buddhists from killing. Without killing, there will be the following points of interest:

a) Personally. - A person who is not cruelly murderous, harmful, non-cruel to shed blood, not skinned, cut flesh, beheaded, strangled, is uneasy in his heart, regrets, mind and body is gentle, poetic , sleep is peaceful, facial expressions are peaceful, pure.

b) Socially. - If all humanity in this world holds the first precepts of Buddha taught, then war will not have, so the ancient ancestors taught:

'' All sentient beings without karma,
Ten of them have a war.
Every home, every place cultivates Thien.
What worries people are not peaceful. '' END=NAM MO SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).GOLDEN AMITABHA MONASTERY=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=THICH CHAN TANH.AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.7/3/2020.