法苑珠林 93.47

93.47

第二明食肉眾生見者皆悉驚悑。故不應食。如彼經說。食肉之人眾生聞氣。悉皆驚悑逃走遠離。是故菩薩修如實行。為化眾生不應食肉。譬如旃陀羅獵師屠兒捕魚鳥人。一切行處眾生遙見作如是念。我今定死。而此來者。是大惡人不識罪福。斷眾生命求現前利。今來至此為覓我等。今我等身悉皆有肉。是故今來我等定死。大慧。由人食肉能令眾生見者皆生如是驚悑。大慧。一切虛空地中眾生見食肉者。皆生恐悑而起疑念。我於今者為死為活。如是惡人不修慈心。亦如豺狼游行世間常覓肉食。如牛噉草蜣蜋逐糞不知飽足。我身是肉正是其食。不應逢見。即捨逃走離之遠去。如人畏懼羅剎無異。

The second clarifies that when sentient beings see one who eats meat, they are all terrified; therefore one should not eat it. As that sūtra states: "When sentient beings smell the odour of a person who eats meat, they are all terrified and flee far away. For this reason, bodhisattvas who cultivate true practice should not eat meat for the sake of transforming sentient beings. For example, when sentient beings anywhere see from afar caṇḍālas, hunters, butchers, or fowlers and fishermen, they think: 'Now I will certainly die, for this person coming here is a greatly evil person who does not recognize sin or merit, severing sentient beings' lives in pursuit of immediate profit; coming here now is to hunt for us. Now our bodies all have flesh; therefore, with his coming now, we will certainly die.' Mahāmati, because people eat meat, they cause all sentient beings who see them to generate such terror. Mahāmati, all sentient beings in the sky and upon the earth, seeing one who eats meat, give rise to terror and produce doubting thoughts: 'Am I now to die, or to live? Such an evil person does not cultivate a mind of loving-kindness, and is like a jackal or wolf roaming the world always seeking meat to eat, or like an ox eating grass or a dung beetle pursuing dung, never knowing satiety. My body is meat, precisely his food; I should not meet him,' and immediately abandon him, flee, and go far away, no different from people fearing rākṣasas."