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The body is a stinking skin, with nine holes of filth, which is an impure view in Buddhism. Idle people's bodies are precious and are tools of practice. This is what Tibetans say, and classics such as Jin Guang Ming Jing and Buddhist medical classics also teach how to maintain this personal health. Therefore, when we read the Buddhist scriptures more comprehensively, we will find that it is also the Buddha who says that the body is filthy and cannot be greedy, and it is also the Buddha who says that it is necessary to maintain the health of this body. Some magicians put too much emphasis on "hating this body" in their teachings, calling this body smelly skin every day and telling everyone not to maintain this body, whether it is nutritious or not. This paranoid way of speaking needs everyone's vigilance. The Buddha taught everyone to know the stench of the body, but he also borrowed this precious person to practice, so this person still needs to be maintained and cannot be treated casually. I wrote a special article as early as 2008, and some brothers still remember the main idea of my original text: vegetarian Buddhists should not despise nutrition and health preservation, but should pay more attention to nutrition collocation and intake than meat eaters (see blog post No.000035 of Auspicious Proverbs for details). Many views of Buddhism are prone to accidents once they are promoted by some people in a partial way. Moreover, we should make it clear that saying that the body is unclean is to treat greedy and lecherous people, not to make everyone despise the health of the body. As a bodhisattva, only having a healthy body can bear the Tathagata's family business, and Buddhists at home can also bear family responsibilities. If you listen to the advice of some wizards who "don't care about your body" and end up ruining your body, I'm afraid it's not worth the candle. Moreover, some esoteric practices are unhealthy and unqualified. There are many views in Buddhism, so you should listen to different views of different Buddhist scriptures to avoid being biased.

(Guo Jixiang 202 1.02.06)