Buddhist-Meditation-Systematic-and-Practical

If a patron has offered meat, then a practicing
Vajrayanist will pronounce the meat-mantra or the usual
OM AH HUM, which will have the effect of liberating
that dead animal from evil births and converting the
meat into nectar. Thus, one has a good chance to help
that animal and one should declare: "When I am a Fully
Enlightened Buddha, by this karmic connection may
that animal become one of my disciples!"
Then one reflects on one's indebtedness both to the
patron and to the animal—how then would it be
possible not to practice meditation diligently?
When he was given an egg, a Chan monk spoke the
following verse:
Though you have neither bone nor hair
Within are Heaven and Earth, the pair,
I'll bring you safe unto the Pure Land,
And free you from cook's killing hand.
This is not an excuse for a vegetarian to take eggs, for
that Chan monk was very spiritually accomplished.
Once he took some chicken and then vomited out a live
hen, minus one leg which had been stolen by his servant.
If you can do the same with either eggs or chicken, then
you may eat them both—without such accomplishments,
it is better to keep strictly to a vegetable diet.
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