{"id":10325,"date":"2011-10-18T12:50:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10325"},"modified":"2011-10-18T12:50:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:50:52","slug":"letting-go-of-animal-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/10\/letting-go-of-animal-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Letting Go Of Animal Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sometimes, when I encourage Buddhist friends to go easy on eating animals and their produce, I’m asked to ‘let go’. It becomes as if I’m the one attached to eating plants. Actually, I’m not. I’m just mindful not to add to demand for animals to be exploited and killed. Even if being vegan is an attachment, it sure beats eating animals as an attachment. The animals wouldn’t want me to simply let go of urging others not to eat them.<\/p>\n

Maybe the intention is to urge me to ‘let go’ of encouraging them to let go – seeing my continual encouragement as an attachment. Again, I’m actually not attached to advocating veganism. I’m just mindful to urge others not to add to demand for animals to be exploited and killed. Even if advocating veganism is an attachment, it sure beats asking vegans not to advocate veganism as an attachment.<\/p>\n

At the most, within a reasonable period, I encourage individual friends thrice on different occasions to go easy on animals. Why not just once? Because they might miss my points the first time round. Why not just twice? Only if I’m not sure if the message hit home. Why end after the third time? Because it could be seen as unpleasant nagging from then onwards?<\/p>\n

Let’s not abuse the teaching of ‘letting go’. What if the Buddha let go of teaching us the Dharma after trying just once, in the event that we are ‘dense’? We wouldn’t want him to. The Buddha never lets go of compassion because there is no need to. What we need to let go of is aversion to good advice. And in terms of not eating animal stuff, to let go of our greed too. Even the littlest titbit from animal produce, say dairy ice cream, is stolen from animals, from a deprived calf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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