Question: Would you say that reciting Om Mani Padme Hung is similar to the practice of metta meditation in that it develops loving-kindness and compassion? Answer: A friend’s wife, at the end of an Om Mani Padme Hum retreat, turned vegetarian upon hearing the heartfelt advice of...

Is continual and indirect paying of others to break the first precept (to kill animals for you to eat) itself personally breaking the first precept to some extent...