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    • [Pt2]The problem is not pleasure itself, as bliss from practising e Dharma is natural.The problem is clinging out of greed hatred & delusion 2012/03/21
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All Mothers Deserve Respect, Of Course!

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 3 Comments | Tags: Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism

Here is a discussion initiated by L, which he claims to be robust, which isn’t, IMHO… At least, not from his side. But I’ll leave whether this is really so for readers to decide. If you are already pro-vegan, you might just wish to skip his parts, though they do seem to represent typical skewed [...]



Enjoy The Rose

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism, love

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! Unique Valentine’s Day flower offering from Depeche Mode’s Facebook group, a virtual rose from the Enjoy the Silence single’s cover. Beats real flowers any time. (I noticed the flowers getting bigger in bunches this year.) If we love flowers so much, why pluck them? It is more romantic not to give [...]



Green Mark Award for Black Marked Business

By jianxie under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism

What a joke! What good is a green building if it serves the least green food – animal produce? What good is a green building if the owners and customers are not green in diet? What good is a green building in the news if this promotes more animal-eating? What good is a green building [...]



How Much Do You Need?

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism, Photojournal | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism

The picture is a shred of toilet paper that I accidentally tore off while in the loo. As it was too small to use, I recycled it with the newspapers. An interesting thought struck me… I was able to use the rest of the toilet paper piece without that little shred. If so, how much, [...]



Insanity of Eating Shark Fin Soup

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism, humanity, speciesism, Vegetarianism & Veganism, violence

True that shark fin is quite tasteless and lacking in nutrition. 1. Every animal that is killed needlessly was in its last moments an endangered one – even if not in terms of the species. (Applies to humans too.) 2. Every animal killed for any other parts or all of its parts is still a [...]



Paradox Of Durability

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism, paradox

I’m wearing Croc cloth shoes. (An out-of production design) They’re pretty good … except that they are not totally waterproof. Here’s a paradox on consumer stuff – the tougher they (e.g. shoes) are, the longer they last, the less we have to buy, but the harder to dispose/recycle later too.



Statement on Buddhist Vegetarianism

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism

A Buddhist organisation asked me to help write two short ‘politically correct’ statements on vegetarianism for a national documentary. This is what I came up with: ‘Where available and dependent on various conditions, lifelong or occasional vegetarianism is an optional but commonly encouraged practice for lay and monastic Buddhists to practise universal compassion. This is [...]



How to Give 51% More Hope to Hopenhagen

By zweiya under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 17 Comments | Tags: Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism

The comic strip (from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal) above illustrates classic ignorance about vegetarianism and rationalisation for meat-eating. While we know that it’s near impossible to have an absolute guilt-free meals, the best thing is to minimise killing for food. If you think that it’s murder when many small animals and insects are killed when [...]



Let’s Give Peace, Happiness & Dharma!

By zweiya under Odds & Ends | 2 Comments | Tags: charity, Dharma, Environmentalism, happiness, peace, Vegetarianism & Veganism

When we were younger, our dreams to save the world was huge. But as we grew up, we easily find ourselves distanced from our ‘heroic’ ambition. Had a chat with an old friend recently about our supposed big dream, about how we drifted so far apart from what we wanted to do. Now, we are [...]



Get a Better Bag

By Shen Shi'an under Environmentalism, Photojournal, Vegetarianism & Veganism | Your Comment | Tags: Environmentalism

I’m very grateful to this bag, which was sent by friend from France along with some organic vegan foodstuffs a few years ago. It has saved me from using many an environmentally-unfriendly plastic bag. It’s also thin enough to be folded and stuffed in my back pocket like a hanky. You should consider getting and [...]



Caring for Beyond Seven Generations

By zweiya under Environmentalism | 1 Comment | Tags: Environmentalism

We try to make efforts to buy as much eco-friendly products as possible, even though the costs of some are steep (due to being lower on demand and the higher cost in mindful production). Recently, we came across ‘Seventh Generations’ products in our neighbourhood supermart (Fairprice). We were pleasantly surprised that Fairprice would bring in [...]



How Clean is Meat?

By zweiya under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 16 Comments | Tags: Environmentalism, ignorance, Vegetarianism & Veganism

A colleague was urging another colleague to give up pork by claiming that pigs eat everything and anything, including their own faeces. I told her that’s probably the case for many animals, as their living conditions before slaughter are horrifying – cramped up with little space to move about, stepping on the waste of one [...]



Waiting for Aliens to Save Us?

By yizhen under Environmentalism, Vegetarianism & Veganism | 4 Comments | Tags: Environmentalism, recycling, Vegetarianism & Veganism

Yesterday, I took a brisk walk through the Vesak @ Orchard food fair. To my great disappointment, the organisation was using the usual non eco-friendly to package food. I remember vividly that wasn’t the case for last year, when biodegradable and recyclable packaging was used, while the packaging was designed with reasons why going vegetarian [...]



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