諸經要集 17.48

17.48

第二明食肉眾生見者皆悉驚怖故不應食。如彼經說食肉之人眾生聞氣。悉皆驚怖逃走遠離。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怖。大慧。一切虛空地中眾生。見食肉者。皆生恐怖而起疑念。我於今者為死為活。如是惡人不修慈心。亦如犲狼遊行世間常覓肉食。如牛噉草。𧏙蜋逐糞不知飽足。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。

Second, explaining that when sentient beings see a meat-eater, they are all terrified; therefore, one should not eat it. As that sūtra says: "When sentient beings smell the scent of a person who eats meat, they are all terrified and flee far away. Therefore, a bodhisattva cultivating the practice of reality, in order to transform sentient beings, should not eat meat. For example, caṇḍālas, hunters, butchers, and those who catch fish and birds: wherever they go, sentient beings seeing them from afar think: 'Now I am certain to die; this one coming is a greatly evil person who does not recognize sin and merit, severs the life of sentient beings, and seeks immediate gain. Now coming to this place, it is to seek us. Now our bodies all have meat; therefore he now comes, and we are certain to die.' Mahāmati! Because a person eats meat, he causes sentient beings who see him all to generate such terror. Mahāmati! All sentient beings in the sky and on earth, seeing one who eats meat, all generate fear and give rise to doubt: 'Am I now to die or to live?' Such evil people do not cultivate the mind of maitrī, and are like jackals and wolves roaming in the world, always seeking meat to eat, like oxen eating grass or dung beetles pursuing dung without knowing satisfaction. 'My body is meat, precisely their food; I should not encounter them,' and they immediately abandon and flee far away from them, no different from people dreading rākṣasas."