廣弘明集 10.24

English (machine translation) 10.24

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10.24

The edict said: "Meat comes from harming life, so cutting it off may indeed be so. Alcohol does not harm life; why enact an absolute prohibition? If it causes no harm, and by calculating the offense there is no fault in it, saying it is wrong means that drinking water or eating rice should also incur guilt. Yet in reality they do not. Why prohibit alcohol exclusively?"

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廣弘明集 — Classical Chinese