..續本文上一頁ing has a life, he must not end its life intentionally.” “To kill by oneself” means not only to take other”s life, but also to take one”s own life. “Telling others to kill” includes advising others to kill or sending someone to kill on your behalf. Whether the act of killing is done by your own hands or by others” hands because you told them to do so, the offense is the same.
談談“教人殺”的實例，在八○年代，有一位經理級的先生，遠從東南亞來到萬佛聖城向上人求救，因爲他身患癌症。上人讓他在聖城的萬佛寶殿中，在十方諸佛菩薩及四衆前發露忏悔，以挽救他的罪業。他提到他因口所犯的惡業，慘無人道地吃衆生肉，如吃猴腦、鵝掌等。接著，上人問他：“你殺過人嗎？”他說：“絕對沒有！除非我喝醉開車，不知道撞死人。”上人又問：“那你太太呢？”“唉呀，我想起來了，我曾叫我太太墮胎！”所以，這些生命都來和他討債了！因此，有人問你，墮胎好不好？應該勸她不要墮胎。不要說：“若有困難，就把孩子拿掉吧。”這是教他殺。
Speaking of telling others to kill, let me tell you a true story. During the 1980s, a manager came all the way from Southeast Asia to visit the Venerable Master at CTTB. This man had cancer and hoped the Venerable Master could save him. In CTTB”s Buddha Hall, the Venerable Master helped this man by letting him repent in front of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas of the Ten Directions and the Fourfold Assembly. The man talked about the evil karma he had created with his mouth, because he cruelly ate living beings” flesh such as monkey brains and goose feet. The Venerable Master then asked him if he had ever killed a person. He replied, “Never. The only way I might have done so would be if I were driving what drunk and killed someone unknowingly.” The Venerable Master further asked, “How about your wife
” In surprise, the manager answered, “Oh, I remember now. I once talked my wife into getting an abortion!” All the lives he had taken were coming to him and demanding payments. Therefore, if someone asks you whether she should get an abortion, you should advise her against it. Don”t say things such as, “If you are in a difficult situation, just get rid of the fetus.” If you tell someone to get an abortion, it is considered as telling others to kill.
你持戒，有持戒的功德；破戒，有破戒的罪業。可是在因果上來說，不管有沒有受戒，因果都是存在的；殺胎的這種過失，因果上默默中都要互相論對的。曾見過在超度牌位中，有同一個媽媽超度十幾個未出生的胎兒，看得令人觸目驚心，這身上有多少條生命呀！人的無知，造成無知的未來；無知的未來，讓人更無知，就像滾雪球似的。
Upholding the precepts creates merit and virtue; breaking the precepts creates negative karma. However, causes and effects exist regardless of whether one has received the precepts. By killing a fetus, one will bear the consequences. I once saw rebirth plaques made by a mother who tried to cross over more than ten fetuses that she had aborted. It was frightening to realize how many lives she was indebted to! Our current ignorance creates a future full of ignorance, and a future full of ignorance causes us to be even more ignorant, thus creating a snowball effect.
問：請問法師對九月是墮胎月有什麼看法？
Question: Dharma Master, what is your view on “September as the month of abortion”
答：這是十幾年前，一位廣播員問我的問題。當時我不明白爲什麼九月是墮胎月？廣播員回答說：“因爲學生放暑假，所以很多兩性的事情發生。有孕了，學生九月要回到學校上課，就去打胎。”那麼，十幾年前風氣就這樣，現在更不用說了。這件事說起來，其實大家都有責任──
Answer: This is a question that a radio announcer asked me about ten years ago. When I said that I didn”t understand why September is the month for abortions, the radio announcer told me: “Since during summer vacations, many students have sex and get pregnant. So when it”s time for them to go back to school in September, they get an abortion.” If things were this bad ten years ago, we can imagine how things are now. Actually, all of us share some responsibility in this matter for the following reasons:
(一)從飲食來說：人應該吃人乳，但現在的孩子大多是飲牛乳長大的；牛是獸，獸有獸性，用獸的奶來養大孩子。斷乳以後，又是大魚大肉、甜點、油炸食品。用這樣的飲食來養孩子，孩子或許看似快高長大，生理成長得快，但沒有真正健康的基礎，同時欲念也重，心理的成熟度夠不上生理的成長。
First, our children”s diet. Human beings should be fed with human milk; however, most children nowadays grow up drinking cow”s milk. Cow is an animal, and yet we feed our children milk produced by a animal. When children are old enough to eat solid food, they are fed with a lot of fish, m…
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