Super Short Story (158): Cat She considers herself an animal-lover. But she loves cats especially, and feeds strays daily with affection, with cat-food made from other animals though. For some reason that she’s probably not mindful of, this doesn’t seem to bother her a bit, since...

Super Short Story (118): Animals He’s super eager in campaigning against abuse of domestic pets, which is wonderful. However, he eats other domesticated [read: enslaved, tortured and murdered] animals too. She’s super eager in campaigning against meat consumption. She...

They call you extremist because you don’t eat flesh. They believe humans should decide the animals’ fate. Yet they forgot the story of young prince Siddhartha (who became the Buddha) and Devattada fighting over a wounded swan. They have forgotten the moral of the story –...

How to Practise Animal Liberation Wisely (Review of New Documentary by Wisdom Sutra Distributor) According to Acharya Nagarjuna in the Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom, “Among all negative karma, that of killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is...

Among all negative karma, that of killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is the highest. – Acharya Nagarjuna (The Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom) In the recent years, there is much talk among Buddhists about stopping the practice of animal...

Buddhist Prayer For Animal Liberation by antishitstem Music by Choyling Drolma and Steve Tibbetts. – Songs “Chenrezig” & “Padmesambava” Prayer for Liberation for Our Brother & Sister Animals. May all sentient beings in the animal realm subject to unbearable pain in labs throughout the...

The gently humourous yet very touching official ‘Paradise’ video from Coldplay, which speaks of animal liberation. Worth a post in itself, without me needing to comment much. (My review of the...

A friend admiring butterflies posts this on Facebook, ‘What is the significance of a butterfly?’ I could say ‘It has potential huge significance!’ Think the Butterfly Effect! But I said this, ‘Remind me of this by Alice Walker: “The animals of the world...

To Be Truly All-Embracing He presented himself to be free, free even to eat anything, open in an all-embracing way. But doesn’t he see the animals to be not free, to not be killed and eaten, such that they all struggle to embrace life? To be truly free, to be truly all-embracing, is to...

Buddhist Views on Cat-Neutering 从佛教观点谈为猫绝育 The below email dialogue with a fellow reader is about the ethics of neutering cats to prevent the multiplication of strays, which might lead to their culling by animal control authorities. She is for the neutering of cats, but was posed some tricky...