龍舒增廣淨土文 12.7

12.7

He also asked, saying: 'May seeking doctors and taking medicines still be used?' / He replied, saying: 'Seeking doctors and taking medicines originally do not conflict. However, medicine can only heal disease; it cannot heal life. When life has come to its end, what can medicine do? If one kills living creatures for medicine in order to seek bodily comfort, this is impermissible. I have often seen worldly people who, because of illness, maintained a vegetarian diet and only then obtained slight recovery, but then a doctor had them use wine, meat, and blood to supplement the medicine, and their illness recurred. Truly know that the Buddha's power can save, while wine and meat are of no benefit.'