How Meritorious Is Severing From Meat And Alcohol? 断酒肉有多少功德？

Summary: The meritorious virtues of severing from meat-eating and alcohol-drinking far exceed those from… giving away of many animals, gems, treasures, jewels, lands, families, gold, banners, canopies and stūpas, by much more than one billion times of each.

Severing from meat-eating creates great meritorious virtues by giving fearlessness, as an expression of the Bodhi Mind (Bodhicitta), by compassionately avoiding demand for killing and harming of all beings.

Severing from alcohol-drinking prevents intoxication and addiction, which might lead to breaking of other precepts. It protects Right Mindfulness, which is essential for mental health and awakening, also preventing drinking-related physical sicknesses.

总结：断酒肉的功德远超布施极多动物、珠宝、土地、家人、黄金、幡盖与宝塔，于百千万倍。因为慈悲不要求一切众生的杀害，给予无畏布施，断肉是菩提心的表现。因此，能造大功德。戒酒可以防止酒醉和成瘾，导致破其他戒的可能性。它可以保护对心理健康与觉悟至关重要的正念，并预防与饮酒有关的身体疾病。