..續本文上一頁een under her care for a while, the nurse arrived at work one evening and was told that the baby”s father had picked up the baby during the day. That evening, the nurse dozed off while she was at work; sometimes it was difficult to stay awake during the quiet hours of the night. While drifting in and out of sleep, she saw the mother who had died during childbirth. The mother said to her, “Thank you for taking care of my baby for so many days. I”m very grateful. I”ll help you to take care of the other children here.” From that evening on, the nurse never again heard babies” cries coming from the second floor abortion clinic.
你說，沒出世的胎兒沒有靈性嗎？他(她)只是一塊肉嗎？割下來的肉是死肉；我們人身上也都有肉，是什麼使我們身上的肉活動，變成我們生命的一部份呢？那把肚裏的骨肉割下來，隨著這塊肉成長爲人的靈性該怎麼辦？他(她)會不會成爲靈界的流浪兒，他(她)要去找誰討這筆債？
From true stories like this one, how can we claim that unborn fetuses are not alive
Are they just pieces of flesh
We too are made of flesh; what makes us alive and the fetuses not alive
If we cut a fetus from the mother”s body, where would he or she go
Will he or she wander around in the spirit world, forever homeless
Who will he or she hold responsible for taking his or her life
有一個女子，因爲年輕不懂事，讀書時曾到過一家醫院墮胎；當時胎是墮了，身心的創傷卻難以平複。幾年後，就在這家醫院前面，她去墮胎時所經過的十字路口，發生了車禍。所以，墮胎這件事，對母親與胎兒無論是身、是心都是傷害！
There was another story about a young girl who had an abortion in a hospital when she was still a student. Although the baby left her body quickly, the physical and emotional scars remained. A few years later, she was involved in a car accident at the intersection near the hospital where she had the abortion. An abortion harms both the mother and the child physically and emotionally.
有一天，有個居士帶著她婦産科醫生的先生到道場來。爲什麼？這位醫生患癌症，希望藉著佛菩薩的力量來幫助他。他告訴我，他很注重健康的，每天運動以保持健康，不知道爲什麼還會患癌症。其實，社會上墮胎的風氣熾盛，身爲婦産科醫生更不能不慎！醫生的職責是“濟世活人”；幫人墮胎，正與“活人”相違。種什麼因，結什麼果。“業”，是我們天天造的；“因”，是你偶爾做這麼一次，這因種了，將來結這果。如春天播種子，這種子種下去，等秋天才可收成。
A woman once brought her husband, an OB/GYN, to the temple. He had been diagnosed with cancer and hoped that the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas could help him. He told me that he took good care of his body and exercised everyday to maintain his health. Therefore he had no idea why he still got cancer. Actually, with abortions being so prevalent nowadays, OB/GYNs especially need to be careful. A doctor”s duty is to save lives, and performing abortions is contrary to this duty. Whatever causes we plant, we reap the corresponding effects. Karma results from our daily actions, while we create a cause only once in a while. Let me give you an example to illustrate these concepts. If we plant seeds in the spring, we need to wait until autumn for the harvests.
由種上到結果，這叫“種因結果”。這個“業”，就是從春天到秋天這段時間，中間經過所發生的事；也就是你常常做什麼，這就叫“業”。拿前面的例子來說，年輕的女子去墮一次胎，這就是“因”；婦産科醫生常常幫人墮胎，這就是“業”。這個業，你隨時做，有可能隨時就受報的，做善就是善業，做惡就是惡業。
The seeds and their resulting fruits are the “causes and effects.” “Karma” is all the events that occurred between spring and autumn or the things that we do frequently. Going back to the OB/GYN with cancer, a woman creates a cause when she has an abortion, while the OB/GYN creates karma when he performs abortions frequently. A person who creates karma constantly may face its retribution constantly. Wholesome actions create wholesome karma, while unwholesome actions create unwholesome karma.
《梵網經菩薩戒》雲：“若佛子，若自殺，教人殺，方便殺，贊歎殺，見作隨喜，乃至咒殺。殺因、殺緣、殺法、殺業。乃至一切有命者，不得故殺。”所謂“自殺”，就是自己動手結束對方的生命；也包括自己結束自己的生命。“教人殺”，自己雖然不殺，但教人殺，如當面勸人行殺，或派人到別處行殺，這樣和自己殺死，罪是一樣的。
The Brahma Net Sutra”s Bodhisattva precepts states that “A disciple of the Buddha must not kill by himself, tell others to kill, kill with expedient means, praise killing, or condone killing. He must not use any methods whatsoever, not even mantras, to kill. He must not create any causes for killing, effects of killing, methods of killing, and karma of killing. As long as the be…
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