About monk meals

Basically, it's vegetarian cuisine, but it's not limited to Japanese food. Italian and Chinese dishes are also available. Even if you don't have meat or fish, all kinds of dishes depend on ingenuity. There are five spicy vegetables, and you can't use anything with a strong aroma, such as garlic. Dairy products are OK, even if they are of animal origin. Everyone makes curry, pasta, etc. with various ingenuity. The same goes for the meals offered to Kobo Daishi Kukai every morning because the person on duty eats them. If you don't miss the principle of devotion, it depends on ingenuity.
Also, other than during training, there are people who eat meat or fish at home. It's just secretly, though.

Hello Mikami.

It's about the monk's meal, isn't it?
Much of Japanese Buddhism is not a precepts after Denkyo Daishi reprimanded the Korahaya, so many monks other than monks who swore to keep the old 250 commandments eat the same meals as ordinary people except during ascetic practices. Rather than not eating meat, monks who are serious about their faith place emphasis on the spiritual view of eating that all meals, including meat that comes out, are eaten with gratitude without leaving anything behind.

Actually, on the contrary, this is an idea that fits the view of food during Shakyamuni's time. Actually, during the time of Buddha, people also ate meat. It was a way of life where extreme vegetarianism, such as other faiths, was not good, and since it was a beggar's ascetic practice, I ate whatever I received with gratitude. Also, since it's an illness, if you have to take nutrition, they are allowed to eat meat even according to the precepts. After the fall of the Buddha, the precepts and practices became more and more appropriate for monks' meals, denying carnivorous eating, just like other faiths.

In that sense, there is a Japanese monk's view of eating. However, traditional ascetic practices are also important, so when entering into strict ascetic practices, there are many cases where people take on the challenge by devoting themselves to the challenge.

Well, before that, there were occasional (probably quite a bit) monks who didn't value meals and drank too much (laughs). It's also my depravity as a monk, so I have to reflect on it. I want you to appreciate the meal too. Gassho

I read your question.
As Master Somekawa said, Buddha was also carnivorous. As a side note, it is estimated that the Buddha died of food poisoning due to food called Sukara Mattava given by a believer called Chunda.
I don't know exactly what kind of food sukara mattava is, but in literal translation, there is also a theory that sukara means pork, and mattava means soft, so pork dishes were eaten. However, since pigs use their noses to search for mushrooms such as truffles, there are many scholars who have adopted the theory that sukara mattava is a mushroom dish.
Even now, they are publicly carnivorous in conservative Southern Buddhist countries (Theravada Buddhism) such as Thailand and Sri Lanka. Meat eating is prohibited only in Hokuden Buddhism countries (Mahayana Buddhism) such as Japan and China.

For example, there will be a lot of sounds coming into your ears.
Rock, jazz, pop, enka, classical music, human voices, and the sounds of the town are coming in, but I wonder if there is a separation between the sacred and the secular.
Does your tongue say “this is Shojin cuisine” or your ears say “this is Shojin music”?
My nose smells all kinds of scents. No mess.
I wonder if this smell is bad, so I don't have a smell.
The body crosses the border and goes everywhere.
You can go anywhere in Korea or Japan with the northern shogun Samatte.
Are you saying this country won't go because it's a country that's fighting with us?
You can go anywhere.
You can eat anything.
I'll watch anything. I can listen to it. You can feel the aroma, taste, and feel.
Things that aren't are what are called human “thoughts.”
The human body and mind are human ways of thinking “this is good and bad” and “vegetables are OK.” Meat is no good.” There should be no such thing.
Why is it OK to eat only vegetables, OK even if only vegetables are killed, and only vegetables carry the label vegetarian cuisine?
That being said, I don't even like to eat only meat.
Meat is not served every day at ascetic dojos, but if there is an opportunity to have it as a memorial service, I will eat it.
Animals are stupid, so it's a human decision not to eat them.
Babies also receive breast milk, which is the mother's blood.
Some monks' robes are sewn with silk thread made by boiling and killing silkworms.
I don't think that way of thinking is true Shojin or Shojin cuisine.
In other words, it's OK to eat meat. I'm fine even if I don't eat.
This body and mind are designed so that you can enjoy anything.