施食 林鈺堂 簡繁轉換 - 繁體 幽冥饑渴誰知憐？行者含悲行施食； 跋 幽冥苦眾，饑渴煎逼，少得舒解，切盼濟渡。行者出乎悲憫，夜夜施食；持咒化米成甘露，平等普濟彼類。至於為營謀私利，而養小鬼，則屬個業之牽纏。長此以往，難免恩怨之計較與主從之競爭，因此不宜從事。若已涉入，則宜改修佛法，並以發乎菩提正見之功德迴向，使彼等早得超渡，而冥陽同蒙義利。 「施食」在佛法中有施食於幽冥眾生之意含。就其字義，則任何一種佈施食品於有情皆屬之。吾人當廣修施食，而不自限於一種。
Almsgiving of Food Yutang Lin Who would care for hunger and thirst in ghost realms? Comment: Suffering beings in ghost realms are constantly under the torture of hunger and thirst. Seldom would they get some relief from such pains, and hence they are desperately looking forward to relief and salvation. Buddhist practitioners, out of compassion, would perform almsgiving of food nightly; they bless rice by mantras into nectars, and then offer them equally to all ghosts. As to the non-Buddhist practice of feeding some particular ghosts with the expectation of receiving their help in gaining profits, it is only a kind of personal entanglement. In the long run it would become inevitable that haggling over given and taken and competition over control arise. Therefore, it is advisable not to engage in such practices. For those who have already engaged in such practices it is better for them to switch to Buddhist practices and dedicate the merits that are based on Bodhicitta to the ghosts. In this way the ghosts might attain liberation sooner, and the correct path will benefit both the living and the deceased. In Chinese Buddhist terminology "almsgiving of food" connotes giving food to beings in the ghost realm. However, standing on its own the term applies to giving food to any kind of beings. We had better practice it in the most general sense without limiting ourselves to just one kind of such practices.
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