Speaking of the word eating, Chinese can be said to have the most right to speak, it can be said that since ancient times, Chinese have a certain pursuit and exquisiteness for eating, in the early primitive society, human development of nature is still relatively small, in the face of most natural phenomena are powerless, so at that time only the pursuit of a clothing can cover the body, food can be eaten.
Of course, later, people began to use nature more and more to create favorable conditions for themselves, basically passed the stage of filling their stomachs, and have begun to eat well and high-level pursuit of grain, and then later, and even now, people's daily life and eating have produced an inseparable relationship, and can even be said to be integrated into it.
For those who have no concern at home, we often say that one person is full, the whole family is not hungry, for those who have poor endurance, we call it eating, for those who will enjoy life, we call it eating spicy, for those who are confident in their actions, we will say that they are sure to eat.
Being in adversity is to suffer hardships, inability to work hard, professional hot called eating, good at communication called eating, and even threatening others to say that they can't eat and go, it can be said that today we all have an inseparable relationship with eating, but back to the original meaning of "eating", we may all have the same questions.
Monks who claim to never stick to meat are vegetarian every day, why are there still so many fat monks? Just look at their food.
For eating contraindications
Although eating is a very important word, there are some people who still have certain restrictions on eating under certain circumstances, such as a piece of food, a bean soup, to be born, to die, in this moment of life and death, if you do not eat it, it means that you give up your life, but there are still people who unswervingly choose the latter. That's because of faith in the heart.
As far as the dignity of the gentleman is concerned, not eating from the mouth is the best manifestation, that is, the person who walks the path suffers, the beggar disdains it, that is to say, as a gentleman, if he gives up his self-esteem in exchange for the chance to survive, it is better to tell him to die, of course, there is another type of person who has faith in his heart and is taboo about food, that is, monks.
Monks pay attention to a six-root purity, that is to say, cut off the love and hatred between the worldly, in addition to the most important point is not to kill, if you violate the killing precepts, then the next life is going to hell, so in the Journey to the West Tang monks would rather die at the hands of bandits than allow Sun Wukong to kill them.
In addition, the reason why monks do not eat meat is also afraid of violating the precepts of killing, although it is indirect, but still violate their beliefs, so most monks will eat vegetarian, but there are exceptions, such as wine and meat through the intestines, the Buddha's heart left in the Daoji is a typical wine meat monk, but from his body shape is not very fat.
But among the Buddhist disciples, although the rest of the monks said that they did not stick to the meat at all, there were still many fat monks.
The second brother's stable obesity
For this problem, there is a very obvious example, that is, the Eight Precepts of the Pig, in the early years, when the Eight Precepts of the Pig were degraded to the mortal world, there was still a period of time before taking refuge in buddhism, so after the lower mortals became monsters, they did not have any scruples, and even ate a lot of people in order to fill their stomachs, and after receiving the guidance of Guanyin Bodhisattva, they abstained from meat and fish.
After Gao Laozhuang joined the team of sutras, it was already this fat body type, and after that, on the Road to the Western Heavens, although the Eight Precepts of the Pig was the most unstable one in the team, it was still hard to follow Tang Monk for 108,000 miles, of course, this was not simply walking, and there were also many emergencies to deal with.
For example, the monster attacks, the master is caught, patrols the mountains to explore the way, and even sometimes has to fight with the monster to kill the continent, it can be said that in addition to daily walking, there is also a considerable amount of exercise, and along the way, basically eat a meal without eating, relying on the well-meaning people along the way to the Western Heavens, just in such a difficult environment, walking for more than ten years, after the Pig Eight Precepts is still the fat monk.
It can be seen from this that even the weight of the Eight Precepts of the Pig has not lost much in such a difficult environment, so it is actually very normal for some of the fat monks in the Buddhist monasteries to eat and pray to the Buddha today.
Why
In fact, these fat monks and the Eight Precepts of the Pig have some commonalities, which may be the reason for the high weight, the first point is the large amount of food, in fact, many fat monks are tigers and bears when they just enter the Buddhist Gate, that is to say, the body at this time can already be regarded as obese. The reason why the subsequent maintenance of obesity is the lack of control over appetite and meal volume.
Although the food is vegetarian dishes, are some tofu, green vegetables, steamed buns and other light things on the list, but if you eat too much, it will still cause a substantial increase in weight, such as when the pig eight precepts in Gao Laozhuang, a meal almost to eat hundreds of steamed buns, on this situation of overeating how to lose weight?
At that time, after the four masters and apprentices received the snake essence in Drazhuang, the villagers thanked them for sending many meals, and the eight precepts of the pig at that time directly became the original body, swallowing all the food regardless of raw or cooked, which of course caused obesity, even if you did not eat meat.
Although the current fat monks are not so hungry and choose to eat, but the amount of food is definitely not too small, in addition to the lack of exercise, although the eight precepts of the pig eat more, but the amount of exercise in a day is also quite a lot, but today's fat monks are different.
Not only do they eat a lot, but they have basically no other activities all day long except chanting buddhist chanting and necessary sanitation, and at most they go out to greet them when someone comes to give alms, so in such an environment, the existence of fat monks is also reasonable.
The most important reason
The last reason is the superiority of the food, compared with the coarse tea and light rice in the Tang monks, the current Buddhist disciples are far more than them in terms of food, although they are all vegetarian dishes, but they exceed more than one grade in grade.
The most typical is some vegetarian meat dishes, some of the taste is closer to the meat dish into a meat dish, such as eggplant can be made into chicken or fish taste, although not the real meat dish, but to achieve unlimited proximity in all aspects, so the current monk overeating also has a lot to do with the increasingly rich dishes.
summary
For us, the most important thing is our own inner belief, not just the external form of conformity, perhaps only like Ji Gong to do wine and flesh through the intestines, the Buddha's heart is the real freedom, but how many people in today's world can do it? Therefore, no matter whether you are fat or thin, the sincere faith in your heart is the first.