略諸經論念佛法門往生淨土集卷上 1.23

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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