Tag: Veganism

22
Apr
2010

How You Eat is Part of Your Practice

为培养慈悲心而吃素即是修行一部分。 吃荤又不培养培养慈悲非修行一部分。 Being a vegetarian to nurture compassion makes it part of Dharma practice. Being a meat-eater while not nurturing…

22
Apr
2010

Is Vegetarianism Arbitrary?

Eating a vegetarian dinner at a restaurant, it was surprising to hear almost everyone at the table speaking about the…

22
Apr
2010

Can You See Meat as Mere Food?

Unless one does not understand what meat is from, it is impossible to just see meat as food, instead of…

22
Apr
2010

Who are the Usual Suspects?

To Animal-eaters, The Buddha once taught that is permissible for random alms-seeking monastics to eat animals not seen, heard or…

22
Apr
2010

Are Vegetarians Really Aggressive?

Vegetarians are sometimes seen as aggressive in advocating their cause towards animal-eaters, though this false perception is often there only…

22
Apr
2010

A Vegetarian is Not Vegetarianism

While some animal-eaters disparage vegetarians who are less kind to some humans, some vegetarians disparage meat-eaters who are less kind…

22
Apr
2010

Their Attachment to Life

Vegetarians and vegans are often accused of being attached to their choice of food. In many cases, this is a…

22
Apr
2010

Why Speak Up for Animals?

I have to speak up for animals because they can’t speak for themselves. I have to speak up for animals…

15
Apr
2010

Bad Gift Karma?

Question: I contributed money for a group gift, but later realised that it wasn’t an animal-friendly gift. Do I create…

15
Apr
2010

Guilt-free Burger

Vegan organic multiple-seeds burger with almonds, sunflower and pumpkin seeds patty, with potato wedges, with salad and soup of the…

15
Apr
2010

How You Can Save The World

Your karma makes your world go round. Our karma makes our world go haywire too. [i] We All Create Karma…

07
Apr
2010

I Find It Hard to Understand

I find it hard to understand people who complain of gory videos, of animals being killed because this is the…

07
Apr
2010

Of Animal & Human Babies

Animal babies, especially, are always lovable. But since when, do they grow up, to become eaten by humans? Human babies,…

26
Mar
2010

Terror of the Real Cheese Touch!

Based on the book, the ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ movie reminds me of a phase of growing up that…

25
Mar
2010

Celebrate with Kindness

A friend is getting married. But like many non-vegetarians, she’s offering a feast of many sentient beings. Me being the…

17
Mar
2010

Should Bugs Be Killed Purposely?

This is an abridged version of a few interesting ‘chats’ with many people, on whether it is alright to kill…

16
Mar
2010

Must I Refrain from Eating the Kind of Animal I Liberated?

Among all negative karma, that of killing is the heaviest. Among all positive karma, that for releasing life is the…

11
Mar
2010

From Asanga to Maitreya, Shantideva to Nagarjuna

Talking about compassion, how can we not mention how Acharya Asanga had carefully licked the maggots out of a dog’s…

10
Mar
2010

How Vegan is Your Organic Food?

Though a large organic farm I visited doesn’t use pesticides, it uses fly paper and blue UV light insect-killers to…

01
Mar
2010

What’s Wrong With Fur, Leather & Wool?

Watch the above. Enough said. 😥