At a Buddhist temple, there were prayers… that ended with the wish for all beings to be well and happy. This is followed by the emcee announcing that they are organising a charity dinner, that it includes two special tables, catered for vegetarians.
Wow! Amazing stuff… when, with the mouthing of wishing all beings to be well and happy, there is immediate unmindfulness that the animals to be killed and consumed are some of these ‘all beings’ too.
Amazing indeed, that the minority of the food catered is vegetarian, and that this is seen as special, and not the encouraged norm. The kinder diet is but a secondary thought, an afterthought? What incredible lack of sensitivity. Is it serious negligence of compassion or attachment to meat at play amongst the management and devotees? How true can charity be in the name of feasting on animals?