Why is there a wave of vegetarianism in China

Surveys prove that vegetarians live 15 years longer than meat eaters

[Original title ]Why is there a wave of vegetarianism in China

These days, I met more vegetarians. It felt a bit strange if there were no one or two vegetarians at the same dining table. Sometimes, more than half of the people at the table were vegetarian, which surprised me.At home, my wife makes some bland vegetables all day long, which makes me feel "melancholy". After all, I am a person who likes to eat meat. Every day I feel weak when I leave meat. Besides, I hope my son is stronger. How can I have a good body without eating meat?

Maybe I really don’t understand the benefits of eating vegetarian food, but after listening to my wife’s nagging “teachings” and dealing with vegetarians often at the dinner table, I also started to eat “vegetarian food” with relish, so I care more about the benefits of vegetarian food.

According to incomplete statistics, more than 300 million people in China are currently vegetarian, and the number of people in this team is still expanding.

If a huge "wave" can form, there must be a "power" in it, and this "power" must have its reasonable factors. I think participants must have gained their own "benefits" in it, otherwise who would have "pained hard" to promote and operate it?

In fact, eating meat is often a symbol of barbarism.I often hear people who are fighting and moving, saying, "I am not a vegetarian." The lie that fully proves the degree of barbarism because of eating meat. Although some people are handsome on the outside, their desires are surging inside and their wild desires are difficult to fill their barbaric bodies. Isn't it?

In everyone's opinion, there are two reasons for eating vegetarian food, one is to believe in it, and the other is to seek health.

Believe, in the mind of the convert, the first precept is "to be compassionate and not kill."In the "Ten Good Deeds Sutra", Sakyamuni Buddha said: "You should know that Bodhisattvas have a method that can eliminate all sufferings in the evil paths....It means that one can forever be free from killing, stealing, evil deeds, lies, slander, abusive words, frivolous words, greed, anger, and evil views.”

The first method of these "ten methods" is "to be able to be free from killing forever."Therefore, the concept formed in this way naturally becomes a psychological element for converting to Buddhism.

To put it bluntly, in the current social environment, more people need health and peace, and use their own practical actions to "salvate" themselves and their relatives' "sin and sins" so that they can have a peaceful heart.

This is also one of the main reasons why there are more and more Buddhist believers in Chinese in recent years.Among believers from high officials to merchants and people, they may not be able to understand the Dharma thoroughly, but it is common to be kind and give.

For faith, we benefit our hearts and minds.Those bloody scenes for self-interest are still fresh in people's memory, and those who have good thoughts are increasingly feeling that the way to live away from killing is so important.Being kind and eating vegetarian and having no desires have also become a beautiful wish for people to pray for peace in the world and be kind to Buddha.Therefore, various vegetarian restaurants have emerged and can be seen everywhere.

Let’s talk about health. The Buddha’s conclusion more than 2,600 years ago – vegetarians are “always free of illness” and “long lifespan.”

A survey today proves that vegetarians live 15 years longer than meat eaters. I cannot know whether this survey is scientific or credible. However, vegetarianism, in the sense of kindness, I do hope to achieve such a goal.

Over the years, our social environment has undergone earth-shaking changes. People's desires are becoming increasingly unreliable. They kill animals under them, killing people without blinking, and becoming more and more "defying the sky". These "kills" have caused an extremely beautiful human being to suffer from all kinds of evil.These changes are also associated with "unclean" meat-eating, which is logical from the perspective of mind and nature.

In the past 20 to 30 years, various malignant tumor diseases have spread, which has caused many families to suffer and has also become a necessary connection with eating meat. Most of these malignant diseases come from poultry meat and human greed. This statement also makes sense.

Therefore, "putting down the butcher's knife and becoming a Buddha" has become the mission of today's pursuit and promoting "vegetarianism" to save the human world. I think it is also an inevitable trend.

China's vegetarian wave is not only reflected in these two aspects.

I think it is based on cultivating the mind and nature.

The Buddha said, "The human body is hard to obtain."When a person comes to the world, it is the result of the combination of causes and conditions.And cultivating one's heart and nature can be said to be the instinctive demand of everyone.To nourish the heart and nature means to achieve "no desire or no coarseness", which is inevitably related to eating.In ancient times, meat dishes were referred to as foods that would affect temperament and desires after consumption, which would cause the mind to lose its mind and strong desires, which would not calm the mind and nature. Therefore, wars, plunder and killing are constantly constantly, and the world should be peaceful and symbiosis, eliminating evil desires, and the mind and nature play the most important role. According to Buddhism, banning alcohol and meat and avoiding killing, eating vegetarian food is the basic method to nourish the mind and nature.

A few days ago, I went to Yulin, Guangxi, which is a world-famous dog-killing city. Therefore, there was a festival called "Dog Meat Festival". However, in this city, I met some "vegetarians" who advocated "doing good deeds and eating vegetarian food, not killing animals."A business owner with kind eyes, leisurely heart, but busy business work has great experience in eating vegetarian food.He said: "We eat vegetarian food to accumulate virtue for our descendants. Only by not killing can we correct our minds and cultivate virtue.Our experiences must always be thoroughly enlightened to complete the growth of our souls.”

Yes, I feel that many of my friends are working hard to complete such a "heart" growth ritual!

We need vegetarian food and spiritual comfort.

To cleanse the mind, you must not only start with reading, but also start with vegetarianism.