First of all it is necessary to define clearly what is vegetarian and what is killing? Fasting , according to nutritionists defined as a diet where food comes from plant sources, including fruits vegetables roots and cereals, while killing is killing life or in other words, the act of killing a human life stage of another being. In Buddhist beings are divided into two categories: (1) sentient species is the way that the nervous system, that movement, walking, crawling, flying, swimming know, generally all animal life, including humans, (2) accidental beings are creatures not in sentient species such as rocks, plants. Grass, trees are living creatures, but not classified as living beings because they have no sense, no nervous system, no active expression of warm, no emotions, thoughts, karma .. . So, if eating sentient species known as vegetarians (originating from the "network" live) and if eating beings accidentally called vegetarians. Killing the cessation of life beings. We born here include both types as mentioned above and as a Buddhist, all beings are equal, so not only the slaughter of meat or fish kill was the transgression that those who kill crop damage plants so .... This is not wrong, but the grass is the most primitive organisms, no nervous system and evolutionary level is much lower than animals, when they are cut no pain, have pus but then fresh and new branches continue to rise, arise completely mental reaction of fight or hatred, even animals know when the screaming pain, the fear known to escape, he was killed with the response arising of consciousness, with the object of revenge killing them. One animal was killed when the end of life, no germination or shoot emerged as herbs. Herbs have subtle and delicate one male at the top and a flower on the same tree, butterfly and bee wind blowing through the binary male fell into binary ones, to the left and seeds for genetically. Animals, the males and females are two bodies, two different lives, we have the knowledge and education should seek to please each other and mating attachment to propagation. fundamental religion of the Buddhists is 5 precepts, which are taught not to kill. For plants are also living beings but as beings accidentally , unlike humans and other animals (living beings accidentally). A Buddhist practitioner, is the not killing sentient beings , even if at a higher level of enlightenment does not kill all species accidentally. However, the main purpose is not to kill for sowing the seeds of compassion and to develop compassion for all living beings from near to far, from large to small. desk It should be added here, we we live in the world of duality "relative", always treat discrimination, good and bad, pleasure and pain .. In this relative world, everyone is sure that the lives of Einstein's life more valuable than a lot of rats ... Similarly, the killing of a cow to be seen as an act of killing more than cutting a flower or blade of grass for cows with nervous system, know the pain. Thanks relative living in the world, we knew people extremely valuable for understanding, intelligence and differentiated that other animals can not. Hence we do not believe that all things must be kept alive by a life of certain species . contrast to the world "relative" we are the world alive "absolute", where it totally equal, there is no distinction between high and low, between good and evil or between sentient beings and inadvertently. There, we have no notion or idea that killing the life of a cow is more evil than cutting out a flower branch. This is the world of those who have qualified enlightenment, highly evolved. As knowledge about the Middle Sergeant vegetarians, non-vegetarian, because he is awakened, the mind no longer distinguish, no problems, attachment about eating. Fasting or eating salty for him just to feed themselves and practice their religion. Speaking of killing, also another aspect, which is also subject to our mind the moment we take the life of student other animals . The moment it decides that it can not act as police or transgressions committed to an ethical mistake not. In the killing of the world is not ordained, the Buddha refers to microorganisms, but if we are just as committed to misdemeanor rather than a felony. Once upon a time when Sakyamuni Buddha, monks have a field go through a dry, hot weather thirst, having puddles that many microorganisms should not dare to drink. White monks came to the Buddha: White Exalted, the thirst, the label that used natural roadside puddle countless germs should not be drinking. Buddha said: Why do not you use the humiliating label (naked eye) that look? story that "intention" in the new action is important. If you look in the water with the naked eye will not see these microbiological and feel free to drink now, it will not be created because there is no volition. Similarly, when antibiotics kill germs and bacteria in the body to treat it well. 

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Discuss plants also have consciousness soul there is a few people saying the scriptures teach that " ten plants were also sentient, along with the other not. As the plants die, the dead come back to the grass . "And they also cited scientific studies that plants also have the soul of (*). This is not true because as the first part we have presented, plants are living organisms, but not (Buddhism) ranks sentient beings because they have no sense, no nervous system, no Active expression of warm, no emotion, thought, act now. In the Shurangama Sutra the Buddha said: " The practice of meditation, when the warm end, kill generals were killed, passed away chon is not present, then that form over warm all variables, then consciousness accept : "Ten local plants are also sentient, along with the other not. As the plants die, the dead come back to the grass. "So nature Bodhi confusion, loss of right, it will make friends with them both pagan and Scattering Investigation Ms. Ni, accept all things are tri sense (that). " " The practice of meditation, as an end to Operation Warm, birth and death were killed, the planet where magic is not a member of cessation information, if in place intellectual property, founded the oracle , for the trees ten grass are called beings, with no other plants to people, the death and the trees, until the species are accidentally enlightened, sentient inadvertently not differentiated, individualized consciousness win, then sink into the mortgage "Tri senseless", do you with two things pagan She Investigation and add Ni, accept all the enlightened, deluded character Bodhi, Buddhist lost knowledge. Yet call the prophet who founded the center, as a result delusion , far left telecommunication, Nirvana opposite direction, into fourth place just crazy. " So this was the obvious answer of plants, also paid word of the lyrics are about a musician Trinh was a teacher repeatedly " how did you know beer has not hurt? ". Stone Brewing is no pain because they accidentally beings, is inanimate. END=VIETNAMESE TRANSLATE ENGLISH BY THICH CHAN TANH.THE MIND OF ENLIGHTMENT.WORLD VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST ORDER=VIETNAMESE BUDDHIST NUN=GOLDEN LOTUS MONASTERY=AUSTRALIA,SYDNEY.2/9/2013.NAM MO SAKYAMUNI BUDDHA.( 3 TIMES ).