Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s wound with his tongue and moved them safely to his freshly sliced thigh flesh? For many of us, we would have chosen to kill the maggots in order to save the dog’s life. Compared to [...]

Watch the above. Enough said.

The best short video so far, from http://www.mercyforanimals.org/dairy
on the dark truth behind the dairy industry.
Please seriously consider giving up any food that has dairy content.
Evidence gathered during the investigation reveals:
~ Cows with bloody open wounds, prolapsed uteruses, pus-filled infections, and swollen joints, apparently left to suffer without veterinary care
~ “Downed” cows – those [...]

From Thich Nhat Hanh’s book ‘The World We Have: A Buddhist Approach to Peace and Ecology’:
The food we eat can reveal the interconnectedness of the universe, the Earth, all living beings, and ourselves. Each bite of vegetable, each drop of soy sauce, each piece of tofu contains the sun and of the Earth. We [...]

Warning: This is a proper vampire movie, where vampires adhere to the classic rules. E.g. they do not glitter with fairy dust in the sun without bursting into flames during non-twilight hours! (To avoid confusion in monster lore, Twilight’s ‘vampires’ shouldn’t be called so in the first place!) What if the situation is in reverse? [...]

Jat: So you don’t eat chocolate that has milk?
Yah: Nope.
Jat: Hmm… seems like a dull life.
Yah: Nope, not a dull life – just a more compassionate way of life. I still enjoy a bar of dark chocolate once a while, but I make sure it contains no animal products like milk, honey or any other [...]

The epic movie ‘Avatar’ is a must-see – for every generation, every kid and adult. Its dramatic and educational messages are direct and simple, but portrayed in probably the most powerful and inspiring manner to date on the silver screen. In the future, after fully milking the Earth’s minerals for energy, humans travel to another [...]

I came across the Kutadanta Sutta (on ‘a bloodless sacrifice’), which records how the Buddha taught about the superior and ultimate spiritual sacrifice not being that of any sentient being’s life, but the sacrifice (giving up) of one’s defilements. As the sutta is quite long, I summarised the second half of it into prose form, [...]

This is a message from Human Society International. It might be belated, but it’s important and we can work towards ending the next round of killing…
We urgently need your help [by signing the petition here] to stop the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of animals [some say half a million] next week during the Gadhimai [...]

Yet another birthday celebration with an eggless cake.
Yet another attempt to educate on why it’s insensitive to animals’ suffering.
Call me a killjoy perhaps, but there is no joy in being killed for others’ joy.
Below is my reply to all to a mass email asking for fund-pooling for a bought cake.
Hi,
Apologies for the inconvenience, but kindly [...]