BUDDHIST CONCEPT OF EATING ON HOW?

When Buddhism was born in India, the Buddhists did not have the habit or the provisions of any special diet. Since India is a country where religious belief is prevalent, ordinary people with religious beliefs are a primary concept of the horror of eating so the original adherents to monks, nuns are ordained to live by alms, known as "a bowl of thousands of". They do not object selection alms, do not have the ban k? Dietary called pure or not pure, holy or not holy, because most series are all equal in width to improve conditions. So far the region such as the venerable Buddhist Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand etc. ... also keep old traditions who donated what they did not get a choice, not as long as the perpetrators of alms, though the dishes with meat, fish, etc. ... are not rejected. That is the reason why Theravada Buddhism does not prescribe forced fasting. Buddhist Fasting is emphasized and encouraged. If you are a vegetarian, it is based on compassionate stance rather than as people say this is the cause and the economy healthy. In fact, the food with both meat harming compassion, the health harm. So as the Mahayana Sutra of Brahma, etc. ... Lankavatara Sutra emphasized vegetarianism, meat prohibited.

For garlic, quality blades should be a distinction. Is garlic vegetables with pungent foul smell like garlic, onions, shallots, palanquin. Lankavatara Sutra says, bears eat raw garlic irritability, cooked it pornographic. During the rule of the monks are defined: they must eat garlic in alone, to sit out a few steps and others to sit under the direction of the wind, or to rinse until clean pungent odor. Thus mainly to avoid disturb others, should not be prescribed to eat garlic. Moreover, before chanting, to chanting spirits hear from anger and greed raises it's best not to eat garlic. But food quality is the only fishy flesh. These things such as chili, pepper, grains of incense, octagonal, spring flavor, star anise, cinnamon bark etc ... are not the flavor of garlic, without the restrictions.

Regarding alcohol prohibition, it is a characteristic of the Buddhists in India, other religions are not banned from drinking alcohol which is even considered capable of communicating with spirits. Store your wine should not guilty of killing, alcohol can become medicinal, should not put in the ban k?'s Religion. But because religion respected intellectual, if more alcohol will disrupt the situation. Few people after drinking that his master, not drunken disorder. So to keep yourself awake frequently, in favor of diligent practice, especially practice to achieve the purpose of the prohibition to alcohol. As for if a large mass base in the words of Confucius has said it "does not that say a certain drink" without prejudice beautiful human demeanor. So if life 5 wine world that can not be, the world can not give up that lost world as disciples of the Three Jewels.

If alcohol use spices that are no longer smell alcohol, not to say they should be considered as not violating the ban on alcohol. So a new religion appeared in Chinese professor also known as alcohol prohibition. In the case of alcohol, then take vinegar to replace, such as using vinegar instead should spice for cooking vinegar alcohol, it is not anymore.

If the effect on the vegetarians or vegans that have vegetarians who are using the best cookware and cooking savory vegetarian. For vegetarians and vegetarians have different tastes, so keeping it clean is essential. However, the Sixth Patriarch of Zen master Hui Neng's after enlightenment, passed peacefully to law among hunters eat only vegetables and meat on the side to avoid the meat in the vegetable stalks. Not eating meat is to hold compassion for sentient beings, and vegetables is to live. So in terms of life does not allow for even cooking appliances to cook vegetarian food is not acceptable.

Tobacco and narcotics, at the Buddhist precepts, can be used at the request of physicians to cure. Not only tobacco but not alcohol again in case it can not be considered without transgression. Of course do not want to have to cure alcohol, tobacco and drug use to crave satisfaction of mouth and stomach. Smoke to prevent obstructions when. In areas where the disease spread miasma home people can smoke with adequate dose, if not, to drug prohibition is to keep the majesty of practice. If for reasons such as stimulating desire, sadness, etc. ... but that's what smoking is the Buddhist precepts are not allowed. In the southern tropics, betel chewing is also effective to prevent infection of the respiratory organs. But if not for therapeutic reasons where betel chewing is becoming a bad practice to discredit comfortable and hurt the image of the practice.

Tobacco and betel things that are not necessities in the diet, the human body to use less useful for healing, for many is bad. For example, the amount of alcohol overdose poisoning, nicotine in cigarettes caused lung damaging gas are simultaneously cause cancer. Water quality betel destroys tooth enamel damage durability of teeth, the best Buddhist is not recommended.

For the eggs should be considered a kind of fishy, ​​because eggs can hatch into chickens, ducklings smells fishy, ​​the best fasting should not eat. Currently egg production in the chicken farm chicken eggs accidentally, eggs sold in the consumer market is largely egg has life. But is not clear egg plants. In view of the killing of eating eggs that are not considered to be asexual transgress, nor harm compassion. But if the conventional non-vegetarian food should be avoided.

Finally for dairy products is not the kind of meat is not fishy, ​​because cows and goats eat grass and cereal, milk substance secreted no fishy smell. Drinking milk has not committed nor killing obstacles to raising calves, baby goats, because the animal has care, control milk so as not to affect the growth and development of our education. So in this era of Buddha is popular drink cow's milk, more milk preparations are classified into five categories: milk, cream, butter, cheese, yogurt, which is the daily food of nutrients is also very necessary, do not fall in the commandments.END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.MHDT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.17/8/2013.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).