共業招感·素食致祥
韋琪
Preface
大乘佛教的核心思想在于三法印：
The core ideology of Mahayana Buddhism is based upon the Three Dharma Seals:
(一)諸行無常；
- All action is impermanent
(二)諸法無我；
- All phenomenon is interdependent
(三)涅槃寂靜。
- Nirvana is ultimate tranquility
在這三法印的核心里，涵括了佛陀教誨的慈悲與智慧
The core of the Three Dharma Seals includes the wisdom and compassion taught by the Buddha:
(一)諸行無常：
- All action is impermanent
知見了世間諸行緣起緣滅，一切都在遷流變異，不生常執的貪嗔癡。
Clearly understanding that all action arises and declines according to conditions, and that everything is in constant flux and change, will keep us from developing enduring attachments because of our ignorance, anger, and greed.
(二)諸法無我：
- All phenomenon is interdependent
知世間諸法依緣而生滅，依緣而成就；
Knowing that all phenomenon depends upon conditions to arise and decline and depends on conditions to be achieved;
有此故有彼，此滅故彼滅；
And that one thing brings about something else, and the destruction of one brings about the destrution of another;
懂得共業招感的道理，從因地中化解融合，成就和諧美果。
And that understanding these Three Dharma Seals will bring about the perceptive of karma and consequence, and that from a seed of reconciliation and integration as the cause， the effect of harmony can be achieved.
(三)涅槃寂靜：
- Nirvana is ultimate tranquility
既知諸行無常，諸法無我，才能徹底的從貪嗔癡的無明中走出來，轉私欲為大愛，化戾氣為祥和。
It is only by understanding that all action is impermanent and that all phenomenon is interdependent, that we can thoroughly walk out of the darkness of unawareness caused by our ignorance, anger and greed and turn our selfish desire into universal love, and transform hostility into harmony.
人類在這個五濁惡世中，常常面臨著不同的困難考驗。
People in this world of the Five Turbidities face different kinds of difficulties and ordeals.
智慧而慈悲的佛陀把他覺悟的真理無私地開示給眾生，就是希望眾生可以善用智慧的良藥，去化解種種無明的困擾苦難，走出業感葛藤，終得清淨解脫！
The wise and compassionate Buddha unselfishly disclosed to sentient beings the truth that he became enlightened of , in the hopes that we will make the best use of this wisdom and take it as wonderful medicine to resolve all kinds of torment and distress that arise from our ignorance. The Buddha disclosed his awareness also in the hopes that we may walk out of the entanglement of our negative karma and finally attain pure liberation.
人類在這個世紀面臨的兩種威脅
The Two Crises that People are Facing Today
聯合國在二○○七年及二○○八年多個高峰會議中，均討論了人類目前面臨的兩種巨大威脅：
In both 2007 and 2008 the United Nations held summit conferences to discuss the two huge crises that humankind is presently facing:
(一)氣候的改變(全球暖化的危機)
- Climate Change (The Global Warming Crisis)
(二)新滋生的傳染病(如：非典SARS和變異禽流感H5N1)
- Emerging infectious diseases such as: SARS and Avian Flu (H5N1)
這兩種巨大威脅的發展，已非一朝一夕，都是人類長久以來忽略了共業招感的惡果然。
The development of these two huge crises did not just happen overnight. They are both the ugly results of people neglecting the mass consequences of mass karma over a very long period of time.
由于人類的無明，眼光短淺，凡事都以眼前利益著想，」只顧自家門前雪，不管他人瓦上霜」。
It is because of people』s ignorance, short sightedness, and only focusing on short term benefits, and, like the Chinese saying goes, 「Caring only about the snow in front of our door and not about the snow on the neighbor』s roof,」
「殊不知人類與萬物的生存是息息相關，共存共榮，一切都是此有彼有，此滅彼滅的唇齒相依的。
and not realizing that the survival of humans, and all things, are entirely interrelated, existing in commune and flourishing in commune, and if there is one, there is another, and that as goes one so goes the other, as close as tongue and teeth,
做成今天的全球暖化危機，
that we now have the crisis of today』s global warming.
引發許許多多威脅人類生命的新滋生傳染病，都是因為人類妄顧了萬物息息相關的眾緣和合真理。
It has brought about many, many, emerging infectious diseases that threaten human life and they exist because we have neglected the truth of the harmony of conditions.
貪婪地濫取地球資源，大量砍伐森林、雨林；
Avidly and greedily abusing the earth』s resources, such as massive chopping down of woodland and rain forests:
污染海洋水源，破壞自然生態環境，殘踏了動物的生存權利，肆意屠殺動物作肉食…….，都是做成人類今天面臨幾乎近于末日的兩大嚴重威脅！
Polluting ocean water, damaging the natural ecology of the environment, savagely trampling upon animal rights of survival, arbitrarily slaughtering animals for food, etc,…have brought about these two deeply serious threats to humanity that seem to be the Apacolypse.
而其中，肆意屠殺動物作肉食的殺業，更是罪魁禍首。以下略作分述：
And among these, the karma of killing by wantonly slaughtering animals for food is the stalwart crime of a disaster. I will explain in detail below:
(一)全球暖化的危機
- The crisis of global warming
全球暖化帶來的是溫室效應，溫室效應會帶來氣候異常變化，引發水災、旱災、海嘯、暴風、地震等種種問題。
Global warming brings about the greenhouse effect and the greenhouse effect brings about abnormal climate change, causing floods, droughts, tsunamis, storms, earthquakes and other problems.
曾經登上南極、北極及地球高極的珠穆朗瑪峰的香港環保先鋒李樂詩著有「三極宣言」。
The Hong Kong Environmental pioneer, Joyce, Lee Lok See, author of The Poles Declaration had been to the antarctic, north-pole and the Everest mountain range – the highest peaks in the world.
她接受香港佛教雜志「溫暖人間」(注一)訪問時說：
When the Hong Kong Buddhist journal, Buddhist Compassion (1) interviewed her, she said,
「如果南、北極的冰全部溶化，全球海洋的水位都會上升，沿岸的城市會被淹沒。
「If the ice of the southern and northern poles should melt, ocean water levels would rise flooding all coastal cities…
中國的雪山溶化，低窪盤地如四川等便會有水災，大水過後，繼之是旱災。」
「Melting of the Himalaya snow in China would flood low-lying basin areas such as Sichuan Province, etc. and after the deluge, drought would follow…
「海水被煮滾，海床發生變化，地底版塊震蕩，結果就是海嘯、地震，2004 年的南亞海嘯就是這樣來的。」
「Ocean water heats up, [and the weight on the] seabeds changes, so that the tectonic plates tremble, resulting in tsunamis and earthquakes. The South Asian Tsunami of 2004 came about by a condition like this…
「科學家發現北極已有北極熊尸體，它們是因為全球暖化，固定冰減少，以至游來游去都不著岸，筋疲力盡而死；
「Scientists have already discovered the corpses of polar bears in the north pole. Global warming has caused the ice shelfs to decrease to the extent that the bears can find no place [to rest upon] as they swim, causing them to die of exhaustion;..
「南極也有大量企鵝死亡……。」
「In the antarctic a huge number of penquins have died…..」
地球暖化，北極冰山溶化，海嘯地震肆虐，都是地球對人類發出的警告！
Global warming, the melting of the north pole glaciers , tsunamis and earthquakes are all reaking havoc and are our planet』s warnings to us.
令到地球暖化的溫室效應氣體又從那里發生的呢？
And where are the global warming greenhouse effect gases coming from?
溫室效應氣體包括了甲烷排放物及二氧化碳等。
The greenhouse gases include methane emissions and CO2, etc.
這些氣體數量太多了，遠超過地球所能負荷，把地球表面厚厚的包圍起來，讓太陽射入的熱量無法正常舒放回太空，做成全求暖化及產生溫室效應。
The amount of these gases is so high that it has already surpassed the earths load limit, thickly enveloping the surface of the earth and making the heat projected by the sun unable to be released normally back into outer space, causing global warming and the greenhouse effect.
燃燒石油的交通工具，如飛機、汽車、火車、卡車、船，為地球排出大量的二氧化碳，但根據聯合國食物和農業組織(UN FAO)報告說：
Modes of transportation that burn fossil fuels such as airplanes, cars, trains, trucks, and ships, discharges a great amount of CO2 into the earth』s atmosphere, but according to a report by the United Nations FAO,
畜牧業產生的溫室效應氣體，大過全球的小客車、卡車、火車、船、飛機的排放量總合。
Greenhouse gases produced by the farm animal industry greatly surpass the total amount of the world』s transportation emissions.
由此可知，現今工廠式的畜牧業才是制造溫室效應氣體的大黑手！
From this we can see that modern industrialized farming is really the most evil hand behind the manufacture of greenhouse gases!
根據美國出版的「我為什麼成為素食者」(注二)一書的作者佩美拉?韋斯引述資料說：
Pamela Rice, the author of 101 Reasons Why I』m a Vegetarian (2)published in the USA, stated,
「人類造成的甲烷排放物，大約百分之二十二是經由全球二十四億的反芻動物噴出，此外畜牧業也招致了每年產生八千萬噸的二氧化碳。」
「Approximately 22% of the methane gas emmissions produced by human kind is expelled by 2 billion 400 million stock animals and besides this the farming industry also results in 80 million tons of CO2 yearly.
書中又說：
Her book also states,
「與此同時，在牧場戶主及谷物飼料農民的擴展下，大幅度地把亞馬遜熱帶雨林剷夷為餵養牲畜的谷物飼料土地。」
「At the same time, the increase in ranchers and feed farmers causes huge tracks of Amazon Rain Forests to be wiped out for land to produce animal feed grain.」
那就是說，人類為了大量飼養供人類食用的動物，擴張工廠式的畜牧業及發展飼料用的農地，一方面毫無忌憚的制造甲烷、二 氧化碳等溫室氣體，排放到地球表面；
This is to say, that in order for us to massively feed the animals that we eat, we need to expand the animal farm industry and develop their feed grain farmland. On the one hand we unscrupulously produce methane emissions, CO2, and on the other hand discharge greenhouse emissions into the earth』s atmosphere.
另一方面又毫不留情地把本來是地球肺部 – 把二氧化碳吸入，呼出氧氣的熱帶雨林 – 狠狠割切，這就無怪乎全球變暖，溫室效應的情況越來越嚴重，造成了當今氣候異常變遷，地球生態瀕臨崩潰的危機了！
We also mercilessly and callously cut down what was originally the earth』s lungs – the tropical rain forests that take in CO2 and breathe out oxygen. No wonder that the entire planet is becoming warmer, and the greenhouse effect is becoming more and more serious, bringing about today』s erratic weather and the crisis of the collapse of the earth』s eco-endangered life forms.
在二○○七年，與美國前副總統戈爾平分諾貝爾和平獎的聯合國氣候變遷小組(UN IPCC)的獲獎報告就是動員二千五百位科學家，經過六年的研究，發現了人類的生活型態是造成全球暖化的主因。
It was discovered by the United Nations Panel on Climate Change (UN IPCC)』s award-winning report, which mobilized 2500 scientists to do six years of research, that human lifestyle is the main cause of global warming. In 2007, the panel shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
該氣候變遷小組主席帕喬理博士說：
Chairman of the Climate Change Committee, Dr. Pachouri said:
「請盡量少吃肉，肉類產生非常多的溫室效應氣體。
“Please eat as little meat as possible; meat products produce a great deal of greenhouse gases.
「多騎單車或走路，不要動不動到那里都開車。」
“Bicycle or walk more, and do not just drive everywhere at the drop of a hat.”
「只買你所需要的，不要看到什麼東西都買。」
“Only buy what you need, and do not buy everything you see.”
帕喬理博士所提出的三種生活型態的改變：
The three lifestyle changes that Dr. Pachouri proposed:
素食、節能、簡樸都很有建設性，而其中素食一項，更是中國大乘佛教一直提倡的，從慈悲的角度來看，素食是積極的不殺生(佛教基本五戒的第一戒)，愛護眾生；
Vegetarianism, saving energy, living simply are all very constructive, of which vegetarianism has always been advocated by Chinese Mahayana Buddhism. Looking at it from the perspective of compassion, vegetarianism is the ardent non-killing of sentient beings (the first of the five basic Buddhist Precepts), the love and protection of sentient beings;
從智慧的角度來看，素食是順應自然的法則，不作傷害物命的惡行，才可以得到化戾氣為祥和的善果。
Looking at it from a wise point of view, vegetarianism is in line with natural law; to not commit the evil act of harming living things is the only way we can achieve the positive effects of transforming hostility into harmony.
中歐國家索芬尼亞的國家主席德諾維斯基博士早在十五年前已經公開支持全民素食，他說：
The State President of the Central European country of Slovenia, Dr. Janez Drnovsek, as early as fifteen years ago openly supported everyone being vegetarian, he said,
「違反自然，人類能耐多久不受惡果的懲罰？」(注三)
「How long can humankind』s challenge to nature go unpunished? (3)」
地球暖化，冰山溶解，海嘯地震肆虐、水災旱災接踵而至…，大地母親已經在咆哮了，我們應趕快放下口味感覺之欲，改變肉食的習慣，選擇素食的生活型態，盡一己之力，改變全球暖化的危機！
The havoc of global warming - melting glaciers, tsunamis, earthquakes, floods and drought following one after another are hard at heel … the earth mother is already screaming. We should quickly let go of our attachment to flavor and change our meat eating habits and choose a vegetarian lifestyle. With all our might we should end this global warming crisis!
(二)新孳生的傳染病威脅
2．The Threat of Emerging Infectious Diseases
所謂新孳生的傳染病包括了一九八一年冒起的愛滋病，二○○三年在亞洲出現的非典，二十世紀初在歐美出現的瘋牛症，二○○三年爆發的豬鏈球菌病疫，與及目前受到嚴重關注的禽流感，特別是目前已演變到禽鳥傳染人類的H5N1變型禽流感。
The new breed of emerging infectious diseases including AIDS which surfaced in 1981, SARS which became known in Asia in 2003, mad cow disease which appeared in Europe and America in the beginning of the twentieth century, the swine streptococcus epidemic which broke out in 2003, and avian flu which is currently of grave concern, especially now with avian flu evolving into a bird-to-man variant called H5N1.
這些新孳生的傳染病殺傷力非常巨大！
The mass destruction of these newly emerging infectious diseases is enormous!
根據美國的禽流感權威米高?格卻醫生的資料，(注四)一九八一年六月，疾病防控中心(CDC)發布消息說洛杉磯有五個人死于一種奇怪的綜合病症，這個當時不起眼的AIDS愛滋病已經造成全球二千五百萬人死亡。
Dr. Michael Greger, M.D., the United States bird flu expert stated (4) that in June 1981 information was provided to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announcing that 5 people in Los Angeles had died from a strange syndrome. What was, at that time, unremarkable AIDS has now caused 25 million deaths worldwide.
再說，非典的病毒令醫藥界束手無策，只可以用隔離的方式斷絕傳染途徑。
Furthermore, the SARS virus caused the medical world to feel helpless, with isolation being the only option for cutting off a channel of infection.
至于禽流感更是談虎色變；在一九一八年，四分之一的美國人染上西班牙流感 ，有五千萬至一億人喪生，大堆尸骨在火中焚化。
Bird flu turns people pale at its mention. In 1918, a quarter of Americans infected with Spanish flu, 50 to 100 million people died with their piles of bones being cremated.
西班牙流感帶來的病毒，在二十五個星期里殺死的人，比愛滋病在二十五年內殺死的人還多。(注四)
In 25 weeks the Spanish flu virus brought killed more people than the AIDS virus has killed in 25 years. (4)
至于變型的禽流感H5N1，更是聞者膽喪，該病毒的致命性是凶猛的，比最壞的流感病毒強十倍！
A variant of avian influenza, H5N1, is even more frightening. The deadliness of this ferocious virus is ten times more virulent than the worst flu virus!
目前，雖然這病毒還不易于人與人之間傳染(至目前為止，只有幾百個人感染此病)但由于一九九七年H5N1爆發以來，又有另外四種雞流感病毒傳染給人類，使專家相信，如果趨勢發展下去，H5N1可以發展成為有效的人類殺手！
At present, although this virus is not easily transmitted person to person, (up to now, only a few hundred individuals have been infected with this disease), but since the outbreak of H5N1 in 1997, another four chicken influenza viruses spread to humans. Experts believe that if this trend continues, H5N1 can develop into an effective human killer!
這些新孳生的傳染病毒是怎樣帶到人類社會的呢？
How have these emerging infectious disease viruses been transmitted into human society?
先談愛滋病，國際木材公司到非洲熱帶雨林開發砍伐，流動性的伐木勞工把雨林中瀕臨絕種的猿猴類、大猩猩、黑猩猩槍殺、屠宰、食用帶有猿猴愛滋病毒的綠猴子(Green Monkey)有了血液及體液的接觸，因而變型為人類艾滋病而帶到人類社會了。
First let』s talk about AIDS. International timber companies have been entering the tropical rain forests of Africa for development and logging. The transient logging laborers shoot and slaughter the soon to be extinct rainforest apes, gorillas, and chimpanzees to eat them. This has included green monkeys thereby the laborers infected themselves with SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus)from the green monkey』s blood and body fluids, which thus transformed into HIV.
目前，在很多非洲國家，愛滋病的傳播，在成年人中超過百分之二十五，留下數百萬孤兒，試想想，幾十年前某人為了啖食其肉而殺了一頭綠猴子，現在已有二千五百萬人死亡！
Presently, in many African countries, the spread of AIDS among the adult population is more than 25 percent, leaving behind millions of orphans. Just think, a few decades ago a person killed a green monkey in order to eat its meat and now, there are 25 million people dead!
至于非典的病毒，醫學界追溯其源頭，乃來自屠宰啖食野生動物果子狸。
As for the SARS virus, the medical community has traced its source to people』s slaughter of wild civet cats to eat.
果子狸是非典的罪魁禍首，貪食野味的老饕，導致了全球八千人傳染，近一千人死亡！
Civet cats are the culprit for SARS. Hungry gluttons desire to taste the wild flavor of game resulted in over 8000 people being infected and nearly a thousand people dead worldwide!
光是以上兩個例子，就可以看到把綠猴子、果子狸趕出雨林、叢林，宰吃其肉，破壞動物生活的形態，踐踏野生動物生存權利，帶來了危害人類的病毒！
From just these two examples mentioned above, we can see that by encroaching them out of rain forests, jungles, and killing them to eat their meat and by the destruction of these animal』s living environment, and by trampling upon these wild animal』s right to life, green monkeys and civet cats have brought a virus against humanity!
再看看豬鏈球菌及禽流感都是來自人類作為食用的家禽豬和雞。
Let us take a look at the viruses of swine streptococcus and avian flu which both came from domesticated pigs and poultry that are used for human consumption.
豬和雞成為人類的食糧已上萬年歷史，但為什麼這些新孳生的傳染病卻愈來越來勢洶洶呢？
Pigs and poultry historically have been food for humans for over ten thousand years. So why have more and more rapid torrents of infectious viruses emerged from them now?
這都是歸咎于人類過份的貪婪，忽略了動物的自然生態及生存權利所致！
This is attributed to excessive human greed, neglect of animal ecology and animal』s right to life!
光是在美國，每年大概有一百億動物被屠殺後成為食物，其中以豬和雞為最多。
In the United States alone, every year there are approximately 10 billion animals slaughtered for food, of which the largest number are pigs and poultry.
如果我們把每天屠宰的雞從翅膀到翅膀連接起來，可以圍繞地球赤道兩周還多！
If we take the chickens, slaughtered daily, and place them wing to wing, they would encircle the Earth’s equator more than two times!
要應付人類對動物性食物的強烈要求，他們已經忘記了雞、牛、豬等家禽是有生命、有感官的動物，商人們唯利是圖，把牲畜們當作貨物般對待。我們從一些文獻紀錄片，看看工廠式農場的面貌：(注五)
To cope with humankind』s strong demand for animals as food we have forgotten that poultry, cattle, pigs and other domesticated animals are living beings with sensory organs. Some business people are only profit motivated and treat animals as if they were general merchandise. Let』s look factory farms in the face through documentary films. (5)
成千上萬的雞擠在一個大雞棚內，終其一生都是被囚禁在狹小的雞籠中，連展開翅膀的空間都沒有。
Tens of thousands of chickens are crowded into a large chicken sheds, imprisoned in small cages for their entire lives, without even the space to spread their wings.
世界上有一半左右的下蛋雞，是在層架式的雞籠中飼養，這些簡陋狹小的雞籠在沒有窗戶，不見天日的大雞棚內列成長排，上架的雞籠的糞便直流而下，全無衛生可言。
About half of the world』s egg layer poultry is raised in battery cages. These undemanding tiny and narrow cages are without windows, and the barracks of large chicken sheds never see the sky or the sun. The droppings of the chickens in cages above flows directly down to the row below and there is no means of maintaining sanitation.
密集、擁擠、緊張、不衛生，沒有陽光通風的環境，為病毒進化提供了完美的環境。
Dense, crowded, intense, and unsanitary, an environment without sun light or ventilation provides a perfect environment for viruses to evolve.
再加上，為了使「產品」快速長大及確保在賣出之前，不會因染病死亡，商人餵飼雞只大量的特效抗菌素，使病毒演變為抗藥性，即使用有效的抗菌素也束手無策。
In addition, in order to make the “merchandise” grow at high speed, ensuring that before the sale it does not die of disease the 「manufacturers」 feed the chickens large quantities of highly effective antibiotics making the virus evolve into drug-resistance. And this makes the once effective antibiotics become quite helpless.
豬的情況也好不到那里，世界一半左右的豬都擠迫在密不透風的豬圈里，母豬被迫不停的人工懷孕，產下小豬也只可以側在籠內哺乳，小豬未成長又被強行與母豬分離，被屠夫宰成乳豬只售賣。
The situation for pigs is no better. About half the world’s pigs are crowded into airtight pigsties. Sows are incessantly forced into artificial pregnancy and they can only remain on their sides breastfeeding. Not yet grown, the piglets are forcibly separated from their mothers by butchers to be slaughtered and sold as suckling pigs.
豬只飽受了密集、擁擠、緊張、不衛生的對待，身體也成為了疾病的孳生溫床。
The pigs endure so much suffering from this densely crowded, intense and unsanitary treatment that their bodies become hot beds for breeding newly emerging viruses.
美國農業部曾經說明：
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has explained:
所有的鏈球菌，一開始都是大腸里的自然無害生物，但由于過度擁擠及通風不良所造成的緊張抑制免疫反應，使該細菌變得具有侵略性，造成大腦、血液、肺部、胸部感染，乃至死亡。
All streptococcus, at first, are natural, harmless, organisms of the large intestine but stress caused by overcrowding and poor ventilation suppresses the immune response making the bacteria become aggressive, resulting in brain, blood, lung, and chest infections and even death.
換句話說，對人類生命產生威脅的新生孳生傳染病毒，都是由于人類不斷擴展肉食的貪婪及索求，把動物的生命及生活的環境肆意改變，踐踏動物應有的生活型式，結果無害的細菌也轉型為致命性。
In other words, the newly emerging viruses that are spreading and are a threat to human life are all from our increasing and expanding greedy demand for meat. To wantonly change animal’s lives and their living environment, and trampling upon the life styles that animals should have, results in harmless bacteria transitioning into deadly diseases.
現在病毒已經轉型並產生了，特別是極具爆炸性及危險形式的H5N1，要根除已經是不太可能，我們現在唯一能夠做的最根本方法就是停止食用牲畜家禽，或者至少嚴格限制食用量，也就是廣泛推行中國大乘佛教的素食精神，推廣初一、十五素食(連蛋、奶也不吃)，逐漸普及全民素食，這才可以防止由工廠化飼養及屠宰食用動物而產生的禽流感及新孳生傳染病！
Now viruses have undergone transformation and produced, in particular, a very explosive and dangerous form of H5N1. It is not very possible to eradicate it, and the only, most fundamental thing we are able to do, is stop consuming poultry and livestock. Or at least, eating only vegetarian (including not eating eggs or dairy), on the first and fifteenth of the lunar calendar. That is widely implementing the Chinese Mahayana Buddhist spirit of vegetarianism. In this way we can promote gradually popularizing vegetarianism. By severely placing restrictions on the amount of their consumption, we can prevent avian flu and newly emerging infections which are caused by factory farming and slaughtering animals for food.!
結語
Conclusion
誠如筆者在前言中引用了佛教的核心思想三法印：
As I quoted the Three Dharma Seals which are the core ideas of Buddhism in the foreword:
世間的諸法均緣起緣滅，彼此都是互為因果的唇齒相依。
All phenomenon in the world arise and decline because of conditions. And are all mutual causes and effects as close as tongue and teeth.
殺生害物的行為必然引起仇恨、恐懼、壓力種種不良的後果，結果還是自作自受。
The acts of killing and harming living beings will definitely lead to acts of hatred, fear, stress and all sorts of undesirable consequences, resulting in, 「that which you sow, so shall you reap.」
相反的，如果能夠從因地中改變緣起，戒殺愛物，與萬物和洽共處，放下舌根的味覺感受，換來的是健康和睦，又何樂而不為呢！
Conversely, if we can change conditions at the cause, by not killing but instead loving animals, and by having harmonious relationships with all things and letting go of the tongue』s desire sense of taste, what we will reap in return are health and harmony. Why don』t we just do it!
注NOTES：
注一：香港雜志「溫暖人間」(Buddhist Compassion)二○○七年九月二十日第211期
- Hong Kong Buddhist magazine 「Buddhist Compassion」 issue 211, published on Sept. 20, 2007
注二：「我為什麼成為素食者」,作者佩美拉?韋斯2006 出版
- 101 Reasons Why I』m a vegetarian(by Pamela Rice) Lantern Books, 2006 edition
注三：「吞噬地球」DVD封面，DVD由英國素食協會在一九九五年攝制
- Devour the Earth, DVD, presented by the Vegetarian Society of the United Kingdom on 1995
注四：「禽流感及新孳生傳染病的預防」演講DVD，二○○八年由美國人道協會出版
- Pandemic Prevention: Bird Flue and Emerging Infectious Diseases, A presentation by Michael Greger, M.D., produced by the Humane Society of the United States, 2008
注五：「渴求不到的慈悲」DVD，美國「綠色的慈悲」制作出版 2008
- Unimaginable Cruelty, produced by Green Compassion, USA, 2008