[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Taishō Tripiṭaka (Chinese Buddhist canon)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho) › [法苑珠林](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122) › 93.44 # 法苑珠林 93.44 法苑珠林 93.44 - **Language:** Classical Chinese ### [93.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.44) 問曰。肉由害命斷之且然。酒不損生何為頓制。若無損計罪無過言非。飲漿食飯亦應得罪。而實不爾。酒何偏斷。答曰。結戒隨事得罪據心。肉體因害。食之即罪。酒性非損。過由弊神。餘處生過。過生由酒。斷酒即除。所以遮制。不同非謂酒體是罪。 > Question: Meat arises from harming life, so to forbid it is understandable; wine does not harm life, so why is it banned unconditionally? If there is no harm, reckoning it a fault and calling it wrong is groundless. Drinking broth or eating rice should also incur guilt, yet in reality it is not so; why then is wine forbidden in particular? Answer: The establishment of precepts follows the circumstance; the incurring of guilt is based on the mind. The nature of meat stems from killing; eating it is immediately a transgression. The nature of wine does not harm, but the fault arises from impairing the spirit: transgressions arise elsewhere, yet their arising stems from wine; severing wine removes them. This is why it is prohibited by interdiction; unlike \[natural transgressions\], it does not mean that the substance of wine is itself a transgression. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 93.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.43) - [Next: 93.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.45) - [Up: 93](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122~en-mt.93.44) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [諸經要集](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2123.17.45) — Classical Chinese - [集古今佛道論衡](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2104.2.22) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.taisho.2122.93.44) · Pramāṇa