An article on vegetarianism and compassion

Beautiful951 SG

http://www.ivu.org/religion/articles/buddhist.html

Not saying that I am a vegetarian, but this article explains about why the writer became vegetarian, and I think it gives many examples of compassion and about how animals have intelligence too.

Amitayus48 SG

Indeed not easy to become vegetarian. The writer became vegetarian based on hearsay and reading instead of the enlightenment understanding such as Zen Master 宝志公 . Gradually the writer will enjoy the benefit and blessing thereon :)

EATING FLESH: PROS AND CONS
By the Venerable Master Hsuan Hua

http://online.sfsu.edu/~rone/Buddhism/BuddhismAnimalsVegetarian/eatingflesh.html
Just now, someone asked me, "Is it good to eat meat or not good to eat meat?" I said, "There is good in eating meat and there is not good in eating meat." What's the good about eating meat? Well, "It's delicious and nutritious, too," you think. And why is meat‑eating not good? The worst thing about it that's not good is that after you digest it, it smells worse than any other type of food, It makes your body stink.

Second is that you also form a company with whatever kind of meat you eat. Cows set up conditions with cows, pigs congregate with other pigs ‑‑you form a big corporation with whatever type of animal you eat. For example, if you eat a lot of pork, you'll become tied up into a company of pigs. So, you figure it out: in the future will you or will you not have to become a pig? The same applies to cows, chickens, sheep, fish and so forth, You get involved in the karma that those creatures create when you eat their meat; you get all mixed up together with them. The karma you create as a person gets all mixed up with the pig, and the karma the pig creates gets all mixed up with you. In a few years you have a big corporation on your hands. And so obviously the next step that follows is that you will eventually become the type of animal whose flesh you were most fond of eating. If you ate pig meat, you will have to become a pig. If you ate cow meat, you will have to become a cow. And it won't be a simple matter of replacing the meat you ate. True enough, you will have to pay that back, but not as a person‑‑you yourself will have to become a cow, you'll have to be a pig, in order to pay back those debts.

Amitayus48 SG

Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein

http://www.quotegarden.com/vegetarianism.html

The latest indications we have suggest that Einstein was vegetarian only for the last year or so of his life, though he appears to have supported the idea for many years before practising it himself.

"So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."

Alice Calaprice, has released the latest edition of her collected and edited quotes by Albert Einstein entitled, "The New Quotable Einstein." Now there is a solid source for the quote, complete with a document number in the Einstein Archive.

"Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind." Translation of letter to Hermann Huth, December 27, 1930. Einstein Archive 46-756

http://www.ivu.org/history/northam20a/einstein.html

A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything." ~Slaughterhouse 1997

Soul12 SG

http://www.ivu.org/religion/articles/buddhist.html

Not saying that I am a vegetarian, but this article explains about why the writer became vegetarian, and I think it gives many examples of compassion and about how animals have intelligence too.

Better not become vegetarian!Meat eating Buddhists are only half pagans meaning people still accept you and welcome you.Don't be so stupid.

sinweiy SG

didn't know Socates, Charles Darwin, Plato, Isaac Newton, Da Vinci, Van Gogh, Thomas Edison are...

Famous Vegetarians

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkhNN-SSlgs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_RQRGciOqQ&NR=1

interesting also?.....

Jesus was a Vegetarian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv3uU2YY6pM&NR=1

Pure Emptiness SG

If i remember correctly church ppl lastime tell me Jesus ate Fish.

sinweiy SG

i see.

found this Q&A:

http://www.jesusveg.com/qow800.html

anyway

i was thinking...the expression, "great mind thinks alike."

Plato and Socates' philosophy were quite similar with Buddhism though.

sinweiy SG

ONE HUNDRED & ONE REASONS TO GO VEGETARIAN

http://www.flex.com/~jai/articles/101.html

49 REASONS WHY I AM A VEGETARIAN

http://www.britishmeat.com/49.htm

Pure Emptiness SG

Wait til I forget long john silver wendy's burger king minced meat noodles japanese ramen ... ...

I can not be a vegetarian cos the tempatation too big.

MiddleWay87 SG

The vegetarian food at Guang Ming Shan is nice :) even haf beancurd sumtimes.

sinweiy SG

i was thinking...the expression, "great mind thinks alike."

Plato and Socates' philosophy were quite similar with Buddhism though.

i kind of believe in the hundredth monkey effect during this 500BC period.

according to Watson, one monkey taught another to wash sweet potatoes who taught another who taught another and soon all the monkeys on the island were washing potatoes where no monkey had ever washed potatoes before. When the "hundredth" monkey learned to wash potatoes, suddenly and spontaneously and mysteriously monkeys on other islands, with no physical contact with the potato-washing cult, started washing potatoes!

Buddha really know how to choose a good period to be born. :)

this effect is also kind of happening in this period of time, when the whole world is becoming more and more close in thinking and like a 世界村. tolerance between religion become more important too.

ThunderFbolt SG

The worst thing about it that's not good is that after you digest it, it smells worse than any other type of food, It makes your body stink.

What in the name of cheese is he saying? Does that mean if he eats lots of vegetables he would become one as well? Do lions become the very prey they eat?

Going vegetarian is good because of health benefits, not because you fear becoming a cow.

An Eternal Now SG

What in the name of cheese is he saying? Does that mean if he eats lots of vegetables he would become one as well? Do lions become the very prey they eat?

Going vegetarian is good because of health benefits, not because you fear becoming a cow.

Don't exactly agree with what Master Hsuan Hua said there.

zero thought SG

If it’s the way it is it will be the way it is. Fear or no fear is added in by us.