practices of brewage, and all kinds of alcohol are prohibited to sell or purchase.”
Alcohol deludes the mind, enabling one to commit crimes accordingly, even harming
one’s reputation, life, or another’s life. Those who sell alcohol as their profession to
make money commit great-evil volitional-activities from violating one of the main
precepts - just as those who traffic in narcotics nowadays commit crimes by their unjust
profession and illegal approaches to making money. The twelfth precept in
Brahmajala-sutra says: “as a Buddhist... trafficking people, slaves, maids, domestic
animals, coffins and other wood-made boxes for funeral by oneself is unacceptable, not
to speak of bidding others to do so.” Just as those who traffic people living and dead,
commit crime by immoral behavior and illegal approaches for staggering profits. All of
these violate “ethical economics” and lead to socially-unhealthy tendencies.