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English version: The sutra says: 'This vegetable is born from the urine of the thousand-year-old bewitching fox transformed by Mara Papiyas (the demon king of the sixth heaven of the desire realm in Buddhism). Eating it can destroy the path to enlightenment. Even if one does not recite scriptures in this life, one will surely detest the holy teachings and become an Icchantika (one who has severed their roots of goodness). The most extreme of all sins in the world is no more than the five rebellious acts (matricide, patricide, arhat-slaying, causing schism in the Sangha, and shedding the blood of a Buddha) or stealing Sanghika property (the common property of the monastery). These sins can still be eliminated through repentance. If I face someone who eats garlic (garlic), or someone who has committed the five rebellious acts or stolen Sanghika property, I can still save them. But for those who eat garlic vegetables, because their own karma is deep and heavy, I cannot save them. The onions (onions) mentioned in the Bodhisattva Precepts Sutra are also like this. Eating these things will create karmic sins.' Nagarjuna's (an important thinker of Mahayana Buddhism) treatise says: 'If someone eats garlic and enters a pagoda, they will fall into the great hell, experience great suffering for ten kalpas, and be reborn in filthy feces for countless kalpas.' The Fivefold Science Treatise says: 'Eating this vegetable will cause people to be scattered and lose their right concentration, and ghosts and spirits can easily take advantage of this, leading to unnatural death and falling into the Avici Hell.' Venerable Vasumitra (a Buddhist master) warned his disciple Brahmaitra: 'You should protect the Dharma and guide sentient beings, so that the Buddha-seed will not be cut off. This is true renunciation. You should diligently practice, and in the future, do not eat garlic, the five pungent roots (garlic, onions, leeks, chives, and shallots), wine, or meat, so that the ten major precepts (the ten fundamental precepts received by monks and nuns) will naturally be pure, and you will attain fruition in this life. If someone eats garlic vegetables, even if they observe complete fasting and precepts, they will fall into the realm of the toilet god after death, causing their merits to be cut off.' Advise monks to guard the rock altar with secular precepts, and do not eat garlic to offend the Buddha's face. Bodhisattvas can discern for themselves, what difficulty is there in choosing vegetables? Cultivate the four right efforts: 1. For unarisen evil dharmas, strive to prevent them from arising. 2. For arisen evil dharmas, strive to eliminate them. 3. For unarisen good dharmas, strive to bring them into being. 4. For arisen good dharmas, strive to increase them. Evil arises from the mind and is extinguished from the mind. Good arises from the mind and grows from the mind. One should diligently observe these four dharmas. Cultivate the four immeasurables: 1. Cultivate loving-kindness (Metta). Thinking of all sentient beings, wanting to give them happiness. Contemplating the creation of immeasurable clothing, food, and other things, giving them to sentient beings, treating enemies and relatives equally, and making them all happy, this is called cultivating loving-kindness. 2. Cultivate compassion (Karuna). Thinking of all sentient beings, wanting to remove their suffering. This is called cultivating compassion. 3. Cultivate sympathetic joy (Mudita). Thinking of all sentient beings, if they cultivate good dharmas, I will praise their good deeds; if they commit evil deeds, --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chinese
劝令断恶。当遇恶扬善。四修舍心。于一切众生皆悉平等不见怨亲等。同空法也。 修六妙行。一识不与色观(系心不染着眼妙行明者青黄朱)二耳不着声。三鼻不染香。四舌不含味。五身不着细滑等。六意不思惟恶法。 四恩者。一父母恩。能生己身得有今日。二师僧恩。生我法身以法施我。三国王恩。救我课没水土草木常以施我。四檀越恩。供给衣食济我身命。 四辈檀越。一天辈天厨甘露献出家。二龙辈牛鹿献乳猿猴。 现代汉语译本：劝导人们断绝恶行，当遇到恶事要宣扬善行。修习四种舍心，对于一切众生都要平等对待，不分怨家和亲人等等，都视为空性的显现。 修习六种微妙的修行方法。第一，认识到不要让意识与色尘（视觉对象）相联系而产生观想（将心系于一处而不被眼前的景象所迷惑，这是微妙的修行，能够明辨青、黄、朱等颜色）。第二，耳朵不执着于声音。第三，鼻子不被香味所污染。第四，舌头不贪恋味道。第五，身体不执着于细滑的触感等等。第六，意念不思惟恶法。 四种恩情是：第一，父母的恩情，能够生养我的身体，使我能够有今天。第二，师父和僧侣的恩情，生养我的法身，用佛法来施予我。第三，国王的恩情，救助我免于赋税的困扰，水土草木常常用来施予我。第四，施主的恩情，供给衣食，救济我的生命。 四类施主：第一类是天人，以天厨甘露供养出家人。第二类是龙族，以牛乳供养牛、鹿、猿猴。
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English version: Exhort people to cease evil deeds, and when encountering evil, promote good deeds. Cultivate the four immeasurable minds (舍心, *she xin*, equanimity), treating all sentient beings equally, without distinguishing between enemies and relatives, seeing them all as manifestations of emptiness (空, *kong*). Cultivate the six subtle practices. First, recognize that consciousness should not be associated with form (色, *se*, visual objects) in observation (focusing the mind without being attached to the sights before you is a subtle practice, enabling one to discern blue, yellow, red, etc.). Second, the ear should not be attached to sound. Third, the nose should not be tainted by fragrance. Fourth, the tongue should not crave flavors. Fifth, the body should not be attached to fine and smooth sensations, etc. Sixth, the mind should not contemplate evil dharmas. The four kinds of gratitude are: First, the gratitude to parents, who gave birth to my body, enabling me to be here today. Second, the gratitude to teachers and monks, who gave birth to my Dharma body, bestowing the Dharma upon me. Third, the gratitude to the king, who saves me from the burden of taxes, and constantly bestows water, land, plants, and trees upon me. Fourth, the gratitude to benefactors (檀越, *dan yue*), who provide clothing and food, sustaining my life. The four types of benefactors: The first type is the Devas (天, *tian*, heavenly beings), who offer the nectar of the heavenly kitchen to renunciants. The second type is the Nagas (龙, *long*, dragons), who offer milk to cows, deer, and monkeys. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------