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Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Pray, don’t talk to me about ‘non-dualistic wisdom’, that eating meat is okay. Meatguy: I think you are too strongly attached to being vegetarian. Shi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are…<\/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":[48,75,57,156],"class_list":["post-4360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veganism","tag-anatta","tag-attachment","tag-compassion","tag-veganism-vegetarianism","wpcat-74-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360","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=4360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nShi’an: I’m not. I’m just aware that animals are attached to their lives, and that my choice of diet prevents more deaths.
\nMeatguy: Didn’t the Buddha teach that all mind and matter is without self?
\nShi’an: Yes, but all the parties involved have not realised non-self yet.
\nMeatguy: Who?
\nShi’an: Everyone! Me, you the eater, the butchers, the sellers and most of all, the animals.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNot when you are as dualistic as the animals, who crave to stay alive, to not be killed.<\/span>
\nPray, don’t talk to me about the ultimate truth of emptiness,
\nwhen you ignore the conventional truth that animals need our compassion.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"