What should I do if my family opposes you after becoming a Buddhist?

Master Cheng Gang replied: What should I do if my family opposes after becoming a Buddhist?

Question: What should I do if my family opposes you after becoming a Buddhist?

Master: I told you two days ago that if we Buddhist disciples want to get out of suffering and gain happiness, benefit ourselves and others, be aware of others, and escape from the suffering wheel of life and death, we must eliminate our habits of life and death.Not only do you not kill, but you also do not eat the flesh of sentient beings.Because all sentient beings are killed by slaughtering, bleeding and sacrificed, and suffer great suffering, we must take compassion as the body. Not only do we not kill sentient beings or eat sentient beings, but we must also save sentient beings and preach the Dharma to them, so that they can be free from troubles, get rid of suffering, get rid of sins and be relieved; in addition, we release animals to help them, which is what we follow in accordance with the teachings and initiate our legitimate practice according to the Buddha's teachings.

The Buddha said, "Those who eat meat are often sick." Eating meat is harmful and can only increase life and death.There is a shadow when there is a cause, and there is a result. Therefore, we should eat vegetarian food for a long time, which corresponds to the Three Refuges and Five Precepts. If we take the Three Refuges and Five Precepts, we will not be able to eat the flesh of sentient beings again.But the causes and conditions of the family, parents, brothers, sisters, wives, children, etc., because you want to eat vegetarian food, they don’t want to eat, so they still have to buy or make them. These are all karma fates that have been formed in life after life.Because family members have good or bad causes and conditions in the past life, they have remunerated and compensated each other for their past debts, so they are combined in this life; or what you owe him, what he owe you, some children are filial because their parents have good causes and conditions in the past, and they are repaying them in this life because they are combined together; some children are unfilial and beat and scolded because their parents owed him in the past, so they come to collect their debts in this life.Then we repay each other's old debts, and after repaying them, there is no debt to repay, we will go our separate ways and be lost.These are all karma fates for generations, and they are involved in each other.It’s not okay to not eat, it’s not okay to do it. This is all karma.But if we don’t have any sins because of this cause and condition.There will be shadows when the pole is upright.However, when you are retribution, your parents, brothers, and sisters, even if they are close relatives, will not be replaced by each other.For example, if we make meat for our relatives and eat it, we will have sins and will not be punished on our behalf when we suffer in the future.So this matter lies in our own correct understanding.Then, you can use convenience, explain the truth, and try to avoid it. Otherwise, who will bear this sin in the future? You will suffer your own karma.The Buddha's law of cause and effect is not ignorant. If there is a cause, there will be a result. If there is karma, you will receive retribution according to karma. If you do karma, you will receive it yourself.It is what people in the world say: the mother can practice the mother can do it, and the mother can do it, but she can't do it without cultivation. Whoever creates it will receive it.It's like this.We don’t eat meat and kill animals just because our actual situation and current conditions do not allow it. This is how it is.Therefore, we must use the right mindfulness of Buddhism to observe, take convenience, try our best to follow the rules and incorporate them into the norms of Buddhism.If we have received the Three Refuges and Five Precepts and want to practice in this aspect, we will eat meat, fry, stir-fry, cook and fry, just like a bucket of water, which leaks from the top and under the bottom, and it will never be calmed down. In the end, it is still an empty bucket, so we cannot get the benefit of this bucket of water.

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