..续本文上一页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.
谈谈“教人杀”的实例，在八○年代，有一位经理级的先生，远从东南亚来到万佛圣城向上人求救，因为他身患癌症。上人让他在圣城的万佛宝殿中，在十方诸佛菩萨及四众前发露忏悔，以挽救他的罪业。他提到他因口所犯的恶业，惨无人道地吃众生肉，如吃猴脑、鹅掌等。接着，上人问他：“你杀过人吗？”他说：“绝对没有！除非我喝醉开车，不知道撞死人。”上人又问：“那你太太呢？”“唉呀，我想起来了，我曾叫我太太堕胎！”所以，这些生命都来和他讨债了！因此，有人问你，堕胎好不好？应该劝她不要堕胎。不要说：“若有困难，就把孩子拿掉吧。”这是教他杀。
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，有破戒的罪业。可是在因果上来说，不管有没有受戒，因果都是存在的；杀胎的这种过失，因果上默默中都要互相论对的。曾见过在超度牌位中，有同一个妈妈超度十几个未出生的胎儿，看得令人触目惊心，这身上有多少条生命呀！人的无知，造成无知的未来；无知的未来，让人更无知，就像滚雪球似的。
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.
问：请问法师对九月是堕胎月有什么看法？
Question: Dharma Master, what is your view on “September as the month of abortion”
答：这是十几年前，一位广播员问我的问题。当时我不明白为什么九月是堕胎月？广播员回答说：“因为学生放暑假，所以很多两性的事情发生。有孕了，学生九月要回到学校上课，就去打胎。”那么，十几年前风气就这样，现在更不用说了。这件事说起来，其实大家都有责任──
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)从饮食来说：人应该吃人乳，但现在的孩子大多是饮牛乳长大的；牛是兽，兽有兽性，用兽的奶来养大孩子。断乳以后，又是大鱼大肉、甜点、油炸食品。用这样的饮食来养孩子，孩子或许看似快高长大，生理成长得快，但没有真正健康的基础，同时欲念也重，心理的成熟度够不上生理的成长。
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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