放生的真諦
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最近有個學員來問我:
「有人告訴我:『如果要學習慈悲，就要先放生，或我有病，我要放生，病才能好是真的嗎？」
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答:「我並不宣導這種形式的放生。」
放生本身的意念是很好的，是慈悲的一個表現。但是如果因為你的放生造成了讓更多的魚死亡的話，你不但沒有功、反而還有巨大的罪過呀！
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好比說你把海魚放進河裡，你是殺生了；河裡的魚放到湖裡，可能也活不了；還有的，就是海魚放回大海也不一定合理，放多少條魚就殺多少條魚，為什麼呢？
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你看看各國的海關對生物的把關有多麼嚴，就明白了。美國有一條河叫密西西比河，裡頭有一種中國鯉魚，這種鯉魚氾濫後把本地的魚都被吃光了，這可能就是不適當的放生所導致。
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我所理解「慈悲」的概念是指「不殺生就是放生。」
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放生，不如你平常能夠做到不殺生，不殺豬、牛、羊、雞，不因為你的貪吃而死，不因為你的粗心而死，你就是放生。
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所以「放生」的實質意涵，我認為應該是..
在於平時，對眾生的一種侍奉、對眾生的一種不忍，這個本身就是慈悲。
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所以，我的想法是：「不殺生就是放生！」
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A student asked me recently,
“Someone told me that to learn compassion, we need to release animals so that they can live (life release) or if I am sick, then I need to perform life release and only then will my sickness be cured. Is this true?”
A: “I do not advocate this form of life release.”
The idea of life release is good – it is a manifestation of compassion but if more fishes die because of your release of fishes, not only will you not achieve your goal, you would have sinned hugely instead!
For example, if you put the ocean fishes into the river, you actually kill them. If you put river fishes into a lake, they may not survive; it is also inappropriate to put ocean fishes back into the sea as how many fishes you put back to the sea equals to how many fishes get killed. Why?
Looking at the strict marine biological control adopted by all countries and you will understand why. There is a river called the Mississippi River in the United States. There is a flourishing number of Chinese carp. The local fishes have been eaten up. This may be caused by the release of Chinese carp by the Chinese people.
The concept of “compassion”, as I understand, means “letting go of life without killing”.
Instead of performing life release, it will be better if you practice non-killing – do not kill pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens etc. Let them not get killed because of your gluttony or because of your carelessness. You are then practicing releasing of lives.
Therefore, I think, the essence of “releasing of lives” should be:
In our daily practice, it is a way of treating all sentient beings, not bearing to see them suffer this in itself is compassion.
Therefore, in my opinion, “If you do not kill a sentient being, it means you are practicing releasing them! ”
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