How to be more compassionate to sentient beings?

Buddhism focuses on compassion, so we must cultivate compassion and Bodhicitta in order to help more sentient beings. How to help sentient beings? That is, starting from today, we become vegetarians, stopping eating meat and seafood. Doing so will be of great benefit to all sentient beings and ourselves.

If we eat meat, the source of the meat must be the bodies of living beings. Meat cannot be obtained from big trees or rocks. Therefore, in order to obtain meat, we must harm sentient beings. By sacrificing the lives of sentient beings we can have meat to eat. In this way, the butcher is guilty of killing animals, and we are equally at fault when we buy the meat.

The Sakyamuni Buddha said in the Sutras that the fault of killing is the same as the fault of eating meat and buying meat, and also said: "I have never promised to eat the flesh of any living being." Therefore, not eating meat is a discipline that we Buddhists must practice. Even if you can't do it at the moment, please use compassion as your main priority and choose a special day or a few days in a month to go vegetarian.

Nowadays, many people do not understand cause and effect, do not care about sentient beings, have no caring and compassion, and buy and sell leather clothes. This is also meant to kill other sentient beings. Therefore, wearing leather clothes is the same fault as eating meat. You must harm all living beings, because only by ending the lives of sentient beings can we get the fur and make it into clothes. Therefore, the person wearing leather clothing is completely at fault for killing.

Moreover, small animals that are skinned will be more painful because foxes, raccoons, etc. are often skinned while they are still alive, so it is much more painful than being killed directly. Therefore, we teach the Buddhist disciples who have taken refuge in the source of Tibetan Dharma not to wear these very expensive and valuable leather clothes, and everyone should inform each other about their family members or fellow Taoists. In addition, decorations made of elephant tusks, pangolin shells, and musk powder cannot be used, because these will endanger the lives of all living beings, and we Buddhist disciples cannot harm any living beings and must be compassionate.

For these principles preached by Shakyamuni Buddha, we should start with ourselves first, and then guide and influence others, so that more people know the merits of wearing cloth clothes, and abstaining from killing and protecting living beings. Many people who believe in Buddhism only know the merits of being a vegetarian, but the truth is not necessarily clear about wearing cloth clothes, not leather clothes, and not using decorations and powders containing animal ingredients. So we start from today, starting from ourselves, and we will quit killing. The compassion of protecting sentient beings pervades the entire world.

Namo Shakyamuni! Thank you!