略諸經論念佛法門往生淨土集卷上 1.23

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菩薩戒又云。若佛子故飲酒。而酒生過失無量。若自身手過酒器。與人飲酒者。五百世無手。何況自飲。不得教一切人飲。及一切眾生飲酒。況自飲酒。一切酒不得飲。若故自飲。教人飲者。犯輕垢罪。若佛子故食肉。一切眾生肉不得食。斷大慈悲。佛性種子。一切眾生。見而捨去。是故一切菩薩。不得食一切眾生肉。食肉得無量罪。若故食肉者。犯輕垢罪。若佛子不得食。五辛大蒜茖葱慈葱蘭葱興渠。是五種一切食中不得食。若故食者。犯輕垢罪。準此經戒。飲酒食肉。及以熏辛。必墜三塗。人身不復。何況淨土出世妙果。而可得耶。故須。

The Bodhisattva Precepts also state: "If a disciple of the Buddha intentionally drinks alcohol—yet alcohol gives rise to immeasurable faults. If one personally hands an alcohol vessel with one's own hand to give someone alcohol to drink, one will lack hands for five hundred lives, not to mention drinking it oneself. One must not instruct any person to drink, nor any sentient being to drink alcohol, not to mention drinking alcohol oneself. No alcohol at all may be drunk. If one intentionally drinks it oneself or instructs others to drink, one commits an offense of minor defilement. If a disciple of the Buddha intentionally eats meat—the meat of any sentient being must not be eaten. It cuts off great compassion, the seed of buddha-nature. All sentient beings, seeing [such a person], will abandon [them] and depart. Therefore, no bodhisattva may eat the meat of any sentient being. Eating meat incurs immeasurable sin. If one intentionally eats meat, one commits an offense of minor defilement. A disciple of the Buddha must not eat the five pungent roots: garlic, leatherjacket leek, scallion, allium, and asafoetida. These five kinds may not be eaten in any food. If one intentionally eats them, one commits an offense of minor defilement." Based on the precepts of this sūtra, drinking alcohol, eating meat, and [consuming] the pungent roots will surely cause one to fall into the three wretched paths, never to regain a human body, so how could the sublime supramundane fruit of the Pure Land ever be obtained? Therefore, one must