Someone compiled a book on the tips about how to preserve one’s health. The diet section is gravely focused on how to cook all kinds of animals, including sparrows, wild geese, pheasants, mandarin ducks, rabbits, camels, deer, bears, and wild hogs, many of which even spoiled rich kids might not have tried before.
Ancient sages already spoke with total precision: “No matter how well you preserve your health, you will have to die.” How pathetic it is to still cling to the delusion of immortality and commit even more killings in one’s old age! This is a book that will lead old people and their descendants all to hell!
Confucius said, “Old people should live in peace.” Certainly, he would never recommend killing as a way to live in peace. Those who promote that meat-eating is good for health really should give it second thoughts.
by Grand Master Lian Chi (蓮池大師), the Eighth Patriarch of Pure Land Buddhism
實悟 – 錄自明末蓮池大師《竹窗隨筆》(初筆)
有集養老書，日用服食，多炮灸生物。至於曰雀、曰鴈、曰雉、曰鴛鴦、曰鹿、曰兔、曰駝、曰熊、曰猯，多豪貴少年所未及染指者。先德有言:「饒君善將息，難與死魔爭。」胡為老不息心，反勤殺害，誤天下老人並其子弟俱陷地獄者，是書也。孔子曰:「老者安之。」定不教渠殺生為安。孟子曰:「七十食肉。」亦定不教渠遍食眾生肉也。作俑者其思之。
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