Enlightenment from Master Xuanhua: Why do Buddhists want to break the five kinds of spicy food in the world?

Author: Master Xuanhua is excerpted from Master Xuanhua's A Brief Interpretation of the Shurangama Sutra on the Top of the Giant Buddha. Sister Sunshine's Note: Master Xuanhua is a rare legendary Taoist priest in modern times. When Gu Guanyin came back, he was the first person to spread Buddhism to the west before his death, and he died in 1995. Later, he often changed the world and all beings in a legendary way. The scripture about eliminating five spices in the Shurangama Sutra goes like this: "All living beings eat sweets, so they live and eat poison, so they die. They are all sentient beings, seeking three places to rub. When the world is broken, there are five kinds of spicy dishes and five kinds of spices. Cooked food is immoral and their health is increasing. " If it is human, people who eat spicy food can pass on the twelve classics and ten immortals, which are smelly and salty, and stay away from them; Hungry ghosts, etc. They often live with ghosts because they eat twice, lick their lips and kiss their mouths. Wealth withers, but in the long run there is no benefit. They eat A Xin and practice Samadha, Bodhisattva, Immortal and Ten Good Gods. They don't come to guard them. "The following is master Xuanhua's explanation of this passage (the paragraph is displayed in blue font): The five hot things in the world should be broken, and its auxiliary factors should be removed first. What is this auxiliary factor? Just cut off all five kinds of spicy dishes in the world. Five kinds of spicy dishes, as mentioned before, are onion, leek, onion, garlic and apricot koji. Autumn is a kind of big head, both wild and domestic; Like onions eaten in foreign countries. Big enough to be an onion. Garlic is garlic; Onions are (green) onions, also called onions. Probably in the Indian star song, China didn't, so there was no translation; What the hell is this thing like? Probably all spicy things, also called "Xingyi". These are five kinds of spicy dishes; Xin, it's spicy. This is the first step in a gradual manner, except for its contributing factors; These five spices are one of the reasons to help the industry, so they must be removed first. It is five kinds of spicy food, cooked food is obscene, and life dares to increase. " It is five kinds of spicy food, such as onion, leek, onion, garlic and Xingqu. If you cook it, it will increase your desire. "Meat, too. Why don't monks eat meat? It is also because meat helps people's lust and increases it. These five spicy things also increase people's desires; Not to increase legitimate desires, but to increase this evil concept of lust. If you eat too much spicy food, this lust will drive you crazy, and men can't live without women, and women can't live without men, which is especially unbearable.

"Dare to widen the gap": Don't misunderstand this gap. It is the gap, not the wisdom. The same voice, "Oh! Do you grow wisdom? " Don't! Increase your stupidity. What do you mean by increasing your stupidity? Really! To increase your temper is to increase your stupidity. A wise man will not lose his temper; Most people who lose their temper are confused about things themselves. I can't see through things, and there is an insurmountable obstacle; There is no solution, I will lose my temper, and the result will not help anything. So why are you worried and grumpy? Just because eating all kinds of meat will increase your ignorance and troubles; Eating spiced food will also increase your temper and your ignorance and troubles. The more you eat, the bigger your temper! The powerful demon king took advantage of it: "It's gluttony and samadhi": Look! You will understand after reading this article! The man who eats five spices wants to practice concentration. who is it? Which one to eat is which; You eat you, and I eat me. There is no designated person, that is to say, the person who eats this kind of food.

"Bodhisattvas, immortals and ten good gods didn't come to protect him": Because of his five desires, all bodhisattvas, immortals and good gods didn't come to protect him. Why? It stinks! Protector, kind god, happy and clean, because the smell is too bad, so I don't come to guard. Why should the law protect you? Just because there is righteousness, there is no evil; Without righteousness, there is evil. Righteousness means protecting good gods and monks. At present, immortals, bodhisattvas, ten dharmas and good gods don't come to protect a monk. What did you say?/Sorry?

"Becoming a Buddha now is a saying": He becomes a Buddha to give you a saying. So I'll teach you, in the future, if you get the Buddha's eye, sometimes you will see the Buddha coming, the bodhisattva coming, or the immortal coming, or the immortal coming. Real buddhas, bodhisattvas, immortals, ghosts and gods all have light. His light is cool. When it shines on you, you feel very comfortable, and it's not so comfortable anymore. What if it is magic? There is a kind of heat in his light. But this kind of analysis can only be analyzed with great wisdom, so as to judge the light of the magic Buddha; If you don't have wisdom, you won't feel that his heat is hot-not as hot as fire, of course, but there is a kind of hot power in it.

Non-Breaking the Forbidden Ring: What is this powerful demon king talking about? How do you know he's a demon? How do you know he is a Buddha? They say different dharma, they break the precepts and don't ask you to keep them. Destruction is slander; If not, say, "Don't keep the commandments! Commandments are all held by Hinayana! Mahayana, killing means not killing, stealing means not stealing, and lewdness means not lewdness: it doesn't matter. You didn't violate the rules of killing, stealing or lewdness: there are no such things! Don't stop that paragraph, don't be so defensive about this fine line, it doesn't matter if you commit it! He said this.

But this criminal, everything you did before you were appointed, is not illegal; If you take this precept, for example, if you take a precept not to kill, you will kill again, which is illegal. Why? You know that. You have been forbidden not to steal, and you steal again, which is against the precepts; If you don't steal, you don't commit. You are controlled by lewd precepts. If you have done lewd things before, it doesn't matter, because that is the past, and people who don't know don't commit crimes. If you do it again after being banned, it is against the precepts. Don't talk nonsense Nothing can break the precepts before you are ordained. You can talk nonsense. Don't talk nonsense after being warned. Know is know, don't know is don't know; You can't possibly know. You say you don't know, you say you don't know. You can't beat around the bush. You must be direct and say what you have. This is forbidden and then considered a crime. So, in this case, I don't have to suffer, so I won't do it? Because now you know that it is good to be ordained. If you don't accept it, you will miss it face to face. If you don't keep the precepts, neither you nor Buddhism have made progress. Be sure to step by step, knowing that this is good requires self-discipline; After being ordained, keep it well and don't do it again! Often living with ghosts, Ford sells "Hungry ghosts kiss their lips every time they eat because of each other": you can speak the Twelve Classics, but fasting is not clean. Those hungry ghosts who have nothing to eat come to kiss you because the preacher ate five spices. Peter, that is the man; Eat it once and it's over. Because you have finished eating, your lips have this spiced taste; It likes the taste and wants to eat it, so it comes to kiss you and lick your lips. Buddha said that this ghost touches food, so if you smell here, it will touch it there; Touch left and right, you can't see it, but you have to do it. Look! You eat spicy meat, and ghosts come close to you and kiss you every day.

"Living with ghosts often leads to daily sales, which is unprofitable in the long run": people who fast like this are unclean, and people who eat spiced food often live with ghosts without knowing or seeing them; His fortune is disappearing day by day, without any benefit. The Ten Immortals are far from "if you are a pungent eater on earth, you can recite the Twelve Classics": Even if you can recite the Twelve Classics, the Ten Immortals are far away. They stay away from this man because they are unclean. All the preachers, if you fast and clean, don't eat five spices, don't drink, don't eat meat; At this time, all the immortals will come to support you and protect your future forever. Angels see that people in our world are stinking; Why does it stink? Just because of eating spices, wine, meat and the like, this body is so smelly and unclean.

Westerners, themselves or some people will think, some people will not think. Westerners like to eat beef and onions because most of them like them; Eating these things always smells like embarrassment. In China people, sometimes there will be, this is called body odor; That stink comes from under two armpits, oh! You can smell it clearly from four or five feet away. But among China people, this kind of situation is very rare, not necessarily one in ten people; In the west-I found it myself, almost everyone has it, just because I eat too much beef, too much mutton and too much onions! So I invented this smell. There are no five difficulties for those who practice bodhi! Those who practice bodhi will never stop committing five sins; Yes, it is called the first step to improve practice.

Ananda! Did you hear what I said? "Those who practice Bodhi will never stop having five desires": Those who practice Bodhi Tao must not eat this onion, leek, onion, garlic and canal. If you eat these things, you will run to the devil; If you don't eat these things, you will come to Buddhism. "Yes, it is called the first progressive practice": this is the first progressive practice of monasticism. In practice, we must remove the auxiliary reasons. What is the devil's auxiliary reason? That's five sins. Don't be simple Because you have five spices, you become turbid and you are not clean; If you are not clean, you will live in harmony with the devil's family. The devil's house is not clean; The less pure, the happier. This kind of person, blessed by magic, goes to prison to eat five desires, which is convenient for the powerful devil. Because he has neither a fairy protector, a bodhisattva nor a good god, he realizes a Buddha body to tell him about magic, lust and ignorance. As a result, such people are confused by the devil, so they have no right knowledge and true wisdom; What does he have? With evil knowledge, Jaken. The devil said that lust is good, and he also believed: "This is what the Buddha told me! Buddha told me that lust has nothing to do with it. He also said, "It doesn't matter if you are worried. Trouble is bodhi. This is what the Buddha told me! "Turns out to be the lich king told him Buddhism, he said it was Buddha. This is called "recognizing thieves as sons and ghosts as buddhas". "

"Death is the devil's house": Death is death. So when his life ended and he enjoyed all the blessings in this world, he went to the devil and became the devil's servant. Why be the devil's wife? Because when he was alive, he believed what the devil said, that is, to keep evil knowledge about Jaken. "Blessed by the devil, he will fall into endless prison": The devil has his blessings, and when he is blessed by the devil, he will fall into endless hell. Therefore, due to his evil knowledge of Jaken, he completed the devil's family and enjoyed all the magic blessings, so he should fall into that endless hell again. When will you come out? Then no one knows!