Let's talk about trivia. Many people know that the original Buddhist practitioners were begging for food, begging for what to eat, not picking, not necessarily asking for vegetarianism.
Why?
This is because practitioners in the Buddha's time used mindfulness as their daily practice. Xi the whole process from waking up, begging to eating, to maintaining full awareness.
And maintain a realistic awareness of the changes in the body, experience, mind, and various emotions caused by them, as well as the underlying causes.
To experience, to experience, but not to be infected with any pleasure, suffering, not suffering or suffering. This awareness will break the love of meat and vegetarianism.
How hard is that?We'll find out for ourselves by trying it ourselves.
Let's start with the simplest form of meditation and observing the changes in your breathing. See how long you can stay distracted.
Then, walk, to see if you can be aware of the whole process of lifting, pushing forward, falling, pressing the ground, changing the center of gravity, and changing left and right under normal gait. If so, how long can it last?
It is said that during the Buddha's time, there were practitioners who mentioned mindfulness when they went out, and once they lost their minds or lost their mindfulness awareness, they had to go back to the starting point and start again.
What a self-requirement?
Not to mention, when you open your mouth to beg for food, in the face of different attitudes, can you still be aware of the changes in your heart at all times, and at the same time be able to understand the underlying process behind it.
When the feeling of hunger hits, can you still be aware of every bite of food, can you still examine the whole process of the subtle changes in the feeling of delicious food and the feeling of bad food, and understand the origin method behind it?
Here, let's revisit the time of the Buddha with the help of **, that is, when there was no vegetarian requirement, practitioners ate and required themselves to be mindful of kung fu:
When eating, count and eat. There is no happy thought, no slow thought, no frictional thinking, no solemn thinking. In order to feed the deceased, cure hunger and thirst, and receive the practice of the Brahman. The old ones are ordered to perish, and the new ones can't afford it. If you are strong, if you are happy, if you are not guilty, you will be hidden.
Just one of them is ordered to be destroyed, how many people can do it today?Let's be honest with ourselves, and when we eat one bite that suits our appetite, the urge to take the next bite will arise. It's very simple to hold back and not eat, but Xi is like oil in the face, and if you want to make this urge to dye without it, you need to practice mindfulness for a long time Xi and practice meditation.
Do you think this kind of practice standard is strict, or is it a strict Xi behavior?
Therefore, if you evade social responsibility by begging, of course, you will think that begging is an easy task, and you will take it for granted that it is better to work and eat a vegetarian diet.
However, if Xi is a practice method of being aware of mindfulness at all times, it will take much more effort for practitioners who are determined to stop their troubles than cultivating their own stomachs.
Of course, we have different social background requirements. The rules of society now do not allow us to experience a change in the mentality of begging. Therefore, the vegetarian approach is a beneficial and benevolent act for both others and oneself.
It's just that for the time being, we can't meet the Xi standards of ancient mindfulness practice, so we just need to work our own.
From this, we can think that the wine and meat pass through the intestines, and the Buddha stays in his heart, which is really what only those who have achieved the greatest Xi practice dare to say. We only need to count, a meal, and walk by ourselves a few times to know how hard it is.
So, with our current level of mindfulness awareness, it's better to keep these jokes in our minds, such as going through the bowels.