大般涅槃經集解 11.31

11.31

案道生曰：滋味之濃，莫深肉食。肉食苟濃，必忘慈惻。慈惻之大，謂之種也。種既斷，長壽理絕也。僧宗曰：夫殺傷大慈，而噉傷小慈。因小得大，故小慈是大慈種也。又釋云：果為大慈，因為小慈，是則因慈為果慈種也。今既噉肉，違因地之慈，故言斷慈種也。惠誕曰：食肉障生厚集善根之小慈也，何有能生種性以上之大慈耶？

Daosheng comments: Of rich flavours, none goes deeper than eating meat. If the craving for meat is strong, one will surely forget compassion and pity. The greatness of compassion and pity is called the 'seed.' Once the seed is cut off, the principle of long life is severed. Sengzong says: Killing harms great compassion, while eating harms lesser compassion. Because one attains the great based on the lesser, lesser compassion is the seed of great compassion. Another explanation says: The fruit is great compassion, and the cause is lesser compassion; thus causal compassion is the seed of the fruit of compassion. Now that one consumes meat, it goes against the compassion of the causal stage; therefore it is said to cut off the seed of compassion. Huidan says: Eating meat obstructs the lesser compassion that accumulates substantial roots of goodness; how could it give rise to the great compassion of the stage of lineage (gotra) and above?