{"id":1347,"date":"2009-02-25T23:54:39","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2009-02-25T23:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T15:59:08","slug":"dedicating-some-beings-to-all-beings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/02\/dedicating-some-beings-to-all-beings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dedicating Some Beings to All Beings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1348\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/19.gif?resize=64%2C64\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While chatting with Sophie over dinner at <em><a href=\"http:\/\/yesnatural.biz\/en\/yesrestaurant.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yes Natural<\/a> <\/em>(a healthy vegetarian food restaurant) this evening, she asked if it was okay to dedicate non-vegetarian food to all beings. I replied, &#8216;Hey, I blogged about this recently. I&#8217;ll email my answer to you.&#8217; (The link&#8217;s below.) To summarise, I felt that continually dedicating some dead beings for the welfare of all beings (which would include the dead beings) seems somewhat ironical and hypocritical. As anticipated, she wondered aloud, &#8216;But isn&#8217;t it better to dedicate than not to at all?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>My (here elaborated) reply &#8211; &#8216;Hmmm&#8230; on second thought (in some contrast to the ideas in the link), it might be better for you to keep dedicating food to all beings&#8230; Actually, when you asked whether it was okay, it hinted that you already kinda knew it wasn&#8217;t totally alright.&#8217; (Sophie &#8211; &#8216;Yeah, I thought so&#8230;&#8217;)\u00a0 As such, if you continue to dedicate each time, this should increase your awareness that you are having meat by choice. Hopefully, there will be some healthy remorse generated, which would decrease the likeliness of ordering meat the next time!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong><br \/>\nGreed Vs Gratitude for Meat<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/meat-gratitude-vs-greed\">https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2008\/12\/meat-gratitude-vs-greed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While chatting with Sophie over dinner at Yes Natural (a healthy vegetarian food restaurant) this evening, she asked if it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[89,64,156],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-mindfulness","tag-repentance","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}