廣弘明集 26.48

26.48

Your disciple Xiao Yan again respectfully addresses you: All venerable monks and nuns, all doctrinal monks and nuns, and all three officers of the monasteries: Emperor Jiang of the Northern Mountain has already eliminated killing. If one prays with non-killing, one immediately obtains an auspicious response; if one prays with killing, one immediately fails to obtain a response. I imagine the great assembly today must have heard of this. Your disciple has already instructed all shrines and the common people that in all sacrifices, if there are prayers and thanksgiving, none may offer living beings; each must exhaust their sincerity and only present vegetarian offerings. Emperor Jiang today practices the bodhisattva path. Why do the renunciants, on the contrary, devour sentient beings and practice the deeds of māras? The other day, when a vegetarian feast was held for Emperor Jiang at the Northern Mountain, the reason why only vegetarian monks were invited was precisely because the hidden spirits can see everything clearly. If non-vegetarian monks were to pretend to eat vegetarian food and go there, I fear that Emperor Jiang would despise the Buddha-dharma and blame your disciple. All Dharma masters should perceive this intention.