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过生日请朋友去素食馆有功德，会种下福田
女听众：我们作为佛弟子应该怎样过生日？以前过生日就是挺奢华地吃一大顿，那么现在我们过生日是否就吃一碗长寿面，多念经呢？
台长答：到素食馆去也可以。你请一些朋友到素食馆去吃，你请他们吃都有功德的。为什么？你叫他们吃素的话，“哎，素的也蛮好吃的嘛”，你就种下一个福田了，这样的话不叫度人啊？你请他们在素食馆里吃，大家“happy birthday to you”不是更好吗？（对的，这个就是妙法。感恩台长）你这个钱要花的，再说你过生日，人家要么送你礼物，送你个小红包，你就比如请他们吃素把他们的钱还给他们。
wenda20160403B 51:34
Title: There is “merit and virtue” if you treat friends to vegetarian meals for your own birthday. You will sow seeds in the field of blessings
Caller: How can we celebrate our birthdays as Buddhist practitioners? Before practicing Buddhism, we would feast on an expensive big meal. Now, should we just have a bowl of longevity noodles and recite more Buddhist scriptures?
Master Jun Hong Lu: You can also invite some friends and eat out at a vegetarian restaurant. There is also “merit and virtue” for you when you pay for the meals. Why? If you invite them to have vegetarian meals, and they think “Oh, vegetarian food is also quite delicious”, then you will sow a seed in the field of blessings. Isn't this a way of introducing Buddhism to them? You spend some money and treat them to vegetarian meals, and you sing “Happy Birthday to You” together, isn’t this even better?
Caller: Yes, this is a wonderful method. Thank you, Master Lu.
Master Jun Hong Lu: You should spend this money since people give you birthday presents or red packets. So you pay them for vegetarian meals in return for the money they have spent on your presents.
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