..续本文上一页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.
你说，没出世的胎儿没有灵性吗？他(她)只是一块肉吗？割下来的肉是死肉；我们人身上也都有肉，是什么使我们身上的肉活动，变成我们生命的一部份呢？那把肚里的骨肉割下来，随着这块肉成长为人的灵性该怎么办？他(她)会不会成为灵界的流浪儿，他(她)要去找谁讨这笔债？
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
有一个女子，因为年轻不懂事，读书时曾到过一家医院堕胎；当时胎是堕了，身心的创伤却难以平复。几年后，就在这家医院前面，她去堕胎时所经过的十字路口，发生了车祸。所以，堕胎这件事，对母亲与胎儿无论是身、是心都是伤害！
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，有个居士带着她妇产科医生的先生到道场来。为什么？这位医生患癌症，希望藉着佛菩萨的力量来帮助他。他告诉我，他很注重健康的，每天运动以保持健康，不知道为什么还会患癌症。其实，社会上堕胎的风气炽盛，身为妇产科医生更不能不慎！医生的职责是“济世活人”；帮人堕胎，正与“活人”相违。种什么因，结什么果。“业”，是我们天天造的；“因”，是你偶尔做这么一次，这因种了，将来结这果。如春天播种子，这种子种下去，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.
由种上到结果，这叫“种因结果”。这个“业”，就是从春天到秋天这段时间，中间经过所发生的事；也就是你常常做什么，这就叫“业”。拿前面的例子来说，年轻的女子去堕一次胎，这就是“因”；妇产科医生常常帮人堕胎，这就是“业”。这个业，你随时做，有可能随时就受报的，做善就是善业，做恶就是恶业。
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.
《梵网经菩萨戒》云：“若佛子，若自杀，教人杀，方便杀，赞叹杀，见作随喜，乃至咒杀。杀因、杀缘、杀法、杀业。乃至一切有命者，不得故杀。”所谓“自杀”，就是自己动手结束对方的生命；也包括自己结束自己的生命。“教人杀”，自己虽然不杀，但教人杀，如当面劝人行杀，或派人到别处行杀，这样和自己杀死，罪是一样的。
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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