Do plants have life as animals do? The answer is NO. Plants may seem to have feelings because they will respond to the stimuli from the environment or external conditions with conditioned reflexes, but in fact they dont have the perceptual consciousness and the feelings of happiness and bitterness produced by the six roots. In Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra Buddha told kaśyap: The Buddha-Nature of beings rests within the five skandhas. If the five skandhas are destroyed, this is killing. And in the Shurangama Sutra Buddha taught us: Based on his idea that there is universal awareness, he formulates a theory that all the plants in the ten directions are sentient, not different from human beings. He claims that plants can become people, and that when people die they again become plants in the ten directions. If he considers this idea of unrestricted, universal awareness to be supreme, he will fall into the error of maintaining that what is not aware has awareness. Vasishtha and Sainika, who maintained the idea of comprehensive awareness, will become his companions. Confused about the Bodhi of the Buddhas, he will lose his knowledge and understanding. ~teaching by SuoDaJiKanBu
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