His Holiness was a vegetarian all his life, it's better he stays alive, helps the world, and at the same time can direct the animals conciousness, what a lucky animal! People shouldn't knock his Holiness without knowing the facts. Appearences can be very deceptive!
@precioustange Yea... but this isn't change fact that His Holiness isn't vegetarian. He teach one thing and do the other...What this attitude is called...wait... i know...something for H word.
He is almost one..he only eats a vegetarian diet, as is evidenced by his website. wish he were completely vegetarian, but maybe someday ? I am vegan and proud of it, because when I eat, I realize nothing has died, likely in pain, for my nutrition. To do less makes us complicit in their painful deaths,and it is relatively easy to do. Please consider being at least vegetarian, its the compassionate thing to do ;)
“In the early 1960s, I became a vegetarian, and stayed strictly vegetarian for almost two years. But I contracted hepatitis and I went back to my old regime.”
– The Dalai Lama (Reader's Digest, 2004)
My mum studied under one of Dalai Lama's disciples, who eats meat, and he said that at the top of Tibet, where nothing grows, there are only yaks to eat.
My sister stopped being vegetarian after reading the following two pages: scribd.com/doc/29583992
I always found vegetarianism to be rather hypocritical. The argument is that animals are intelligent and deserve fair and ethical treatment but plants are often times smarter (Just can express it but they do have emotions and spirits just like any other form of life) and they are technically more evolved than humans (different evolutionary direction but they are further along than we are. So it is arguably more unethical to eat plants than it is meat. Fun Fact.
@Kevin7557 I don't know if what you say about plants is true. I'm not sure if we can ever be certain about those claims. But if they are true, I'm not sure that vegetarianism is against the eating of animals because they are intelligent. I think it is because animals feel pain and have a desire to live. I don't know if plants have that. Maybe they do.
I'm a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & believe me, I know many lamas who love to eat meat. They say they have mantras for blessing the meat before eating them. But I still think it's ironic!
@bgkarma HH eats 1 time in the couple of months little bit of meat because he has hypatitis b and he will become really sick if he dont eat little bit, but he strongly encourage everyone to be vegeterian moreover, high Lama's such as HH can direct the mind of the being into the next life form some Lamas can dertimen the next life form for the being. HH eats strictly only because the body he lives in at present moment askes for this otherwise he would die.
@bgkarma In addition to @Yamarukun comment ...HH had been a very strict vegetarian for more that 7 years (absolutely no meat or any animal ,even no eggs ) ..but became very sick and the doctors told him if he dont eat some meat from time to time he would probably die due to his sickness! So its not intentionaly..
This really shows anyone can change and transform their life. I grew up loving meat and hating vegetable, then something shifted inside after listening to some Buddhist discourses and reading up on the way animals are being treated in the slaughterhouses and so-called animal testing on products and medication. I decided not only to be vegetarian but give this information to anybody who is willing to listen. The spiritual path is often a lonely path but the benefits are immense, don't give up !
@madzane94 I agree with the Jain culture, religion. The will not eat any plant that kills it. Hence potato's etc are not food. Only fruits, and plants that offer seed bearing nourishment. We eat the them and we spread them around the world via our excrement, all herbivore animals do this. There is a documentary, "Botany of Desire"
Plants manifest color, shape, fragrance to lure animals to eat them, there for their life is spread around the world. Apples, oranges, grapes etc.
@chakrachaser Great insight, will definatley be checking out that documentary.
I too am aware the significance of fruits. Just look at their life, they're born, and when they get "old" they ripen and fall off the tree for consumption, where it's seed is given to the earth
How amaing is nature?
I'm sure Buddha saw this, hence why he refrained from all eating, and Christ speaks of similar matters in A Gospel not chosen by constantine for the New Testament Cannon. "The Gospel of The Holy Twelve."
And Buddhism isn't really a religion. Whereas all religions dictate and brainwash their followers by telling them this is right and you must live by these rules, Buddhism teaches a moral peaceful way of life, and Buddhism attracts open minded individuals, there aren't many people in the world who wish to open their minds due to fear of ridicule from others. When more people open their hearts and minds, the Buddhist philosophy makes sense.
Buddhism is indeed a religion. You clearly don't know anything about Buddhism lol. Certain types of buddhism have different rules and etc. but of course we have rules. :U
Wow, lovely video and so right. The day all mankind has a way of life like this i will rejoice! I think humans have a long way to go unfortunately, but spread the word in a non forceful way that vegetarianism is the way forward. Peace people :-)
Thoughts are more powerful than food. Lots of highly enlightened beings eat animals. Plants are beings too. You yourself will someday die and be food for the earth. Everything dies at some point...ever hear of Karma...lol!! Once a certain point is reached it all is pointless, but if not at the point of constant compassion and full recognition of emptiness then the world must seem quite real and solid with solid truths that you can side with and be right. hahahahah!!
Thoughts are more powerful than food. Lots of highly enlightened beings eat animals. Plants are beings too. You yourself will someday die and be food for the earth. Everything dies at some point...ever hear of Karma...lol!! Once a certain point is reached it all is pointless, but if not at the point of constant compassion and full recognition of emptiness then the world must seem quite real and solid with solid truths that you can side with and be right. hahahahah!!
The Essence of Buddhism is Non violence and Compassion, how can one contribute to the torturing and slaughtering of helpless animals practice this way of life and claim to be Buddhist ? We should really try to practice what the Buddha taught instead of pretending to be a practitioner ! It won't work !
@bliss6120 I grew up, in a hunter family, being taught to hunt, kill, for meat and entertainment. Something happened at 28yrs of age that I can not explain. I sold my guns, and stopped being cruel to animal. Some energy touched my heart and cried out to me. Stop this. Now my family thinks I have gone insane, crazy. I realize this is a difficult path I have chosen, not for the timid or shy. We must "pursue the truth like a man with his head on fire" searching for water.
Nice video, i will try to upload it as well with different tags and title - maybe geared towards Christians! (7th Day Adventists, Hare Krishna, Rasta) too. ChristianVeg (dot) org is a good group.
Regardless factory farms are cruel to other helpless mammals, meat is unnecessary today, contributes to health problems (costs and countless human deaths), destroys gods planet/enironment and even world hunger (1lb flesh per 10lbs of grain/corn inefficiently fed to them, while people go hungry).
the only thing I know is that some Buddhists are vegetarian and that others eat meat and teach compassion lol. Buddha's teachings are beautiful and I think if you teach them then u better practice what you believe!!
What beautiful people: what a beautiful belief, how I'd love to live amongst them rather than with the DEMONIC humans who hurt our prescious animals x
Fuck vegetarianism - go liquidarian or breatharian. The more liquidy the better.
1. Humans didnt eat food until reptilians messed with us (Eden)
2. Humans lived to 1000 except for accidents until religion promised heaven upon death, thus making them "prepare" for it (but all that really happens is you get another body because youre not supposed to die ever)
3. The golden age IS here the days of immortality are here but it takes fitness, fasting and watching my favorited videos :) GOOD LUCK!!!
I agree that sensless killing,just for the pleasure of it i sick...however there are carnivourous animals.You dont blame a lion for killing and eating but you blame the human being.Its true that you can live without meat , but only if you sit around all day meditating.Try doing some hard phisycal work only on raw foods. (excuse my bad english
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Dalai Lama EATS meat hence he is a total filthy bastard hypocritical bogus, period. Thank you all who are true vegetarians and love all the other beings, o my kinda people.
@SamuelSkelter AGREED! haha..i read it in one of his books that he is a vegetarian most of the time because he doesn't want to get sick and die...WTF!!!!
@GeezLeeweez Yeah. He's a filthy bastard, a fucking hypocrite, another one from the whole 'holy' gang which is actually filthy from the roots. He throws his false puritan shit over the people but he himself is a bloody cuntybollock wankstains, that bastard.
thank you for this video. I am vegetarian for those reasons and I find the way we treat animals here in the west is disgusting. I am so happy to find supporters and protectors of animals. thank you. Peace and Love.
This video and the quotes are very nice. I live in a rural area in Europe and frankly my message is "vegetarian world wake up". There are trucks taking animals to slaughterhouses day after day...I see them daily. It is terrible. Cruelty has overcome the good...greed has rushed ahead and devoured the world. I don't know what to do. I am vegetarian...but need to connect with other vegetarians...I ask that you do all you can to promote vegetarianism, self-respect and respect of life.
Speaking of vegetarian I found a pretty interesting book on Amazon Kindle that's worth checking out. It called "Why You Must Become A Vegetarian". Definitely worth checking out
If your heartpulsing awakened mind connects you with the sentient being that was entangled with that meat and the honest wish occurs: May we both be connected karmically through this act until full awakening and support each other throughout this and future lives until all suffering has ceased once and forever,then it doesn't matter if you give your meat or meat is given to you.But who of us is honestly daring such a view beyond right and wrong?
Naprawdę cenny jest ten materiał, jestem veganinem i pragnę z całego serca zostać mnichem w Cittaviveka składając dodatkowe ślubowania aby powstrzymać się od jedzenia mięsa. Sorry, but I'm the Polish and my English is not especially good :-) therfore I'm writing in Polish language, sorry once again. Vegetarianism&Buddhism!
Be mindful of your motive of your heart and the experience of your energy in the all inclusive eternal moment. Nothing is inherently ''wrong' or 'right' in itself. The Buddhist way is to 'strive' to be vegetarian as it encourages compassion towards all sentinent things in all things BUT (especially if a male) don't become ill in the process. Don't go to extremes. Start by cutting down to just chicken and fish. Then to just fish. Then just quorn.Let your body get used to the changes gradually.
Stop judging others,if you are a vegetarian that's fine live silently.....don't create an image of a 'Vegetarian' in your mind and judge others based on that...have compassion for all......whether they eat meat or not....may all living beings be happy and well..Sabbe Satta Bawanthu Suki Thaththa...
Some Buddhist try to justify eating meat by saying "As long as the animal was not killed pacifically for me eating it, Then it is Ok" Now as Buddhist we are suppose to be against Violence, But with that philosophy on meat it pretty much says we well be okay with War,Murder,Rape,child abuse, As long as those things have nothing to do with us. But in any Religion there is always a group of people who try to find Loop Holes. But in Karma, Good is Good, bad is bad rather you believe it to be or not
If you are a vegetarian i respect that but....this whole debate of whether to eat meat or not is simply stupid,the most important problem is whether you have come out of the illusion of 'I' or not.Till then you'll never know what the truest way of living is....stop being candles in the sun.....
Sin ? Sinful is NOT what a person puts into their mouth !!! Sin, (bad karma etc), is just what can come OUT of a persons mouth ! (Arabian proverb). God roasts, kills and eats us all... Think about it : ) I am more vegetarian than the Thai Buddhist town I live in !!! But I have ZERO problem, with thrusting a knife into a beastie, and THANKING it, for its meat.
I have met his holiness, the Dalai Lama. He openly admits to eating meat for health reasons. I eat a vegan diet. Yet I do not judge those who eat meat. Humans are higher on the food chain than many animals. Animals, such as lions and grizzly bears, would eat us in a heart beat if given the opportunity.
While i love everyone, the Buddha says, how can any spiritual personwho approaches all living things as if they were himself eat the flesh of something that is of the same nature as himself??? we all have Buddha nature, animals included, they feel, they cry, they love, they hurt just like us. so sad so many can find excuses to disrespect life that is so precious. When you eat meat all you are doing is deriving pleasure from another sentient beings suffering. And there is karmic retribution.
Buddhists can eat meat wich has been not killed for them. You don' t gain karma in that way. Every buddhis must eat what they receve as offering, meat included.
Oh u shity, i am a Buddhist. i know more than u. u first learn okay. then say big words. people like u r being paid by fucking Chinese government. for writing such a fucking words. how much u r paid.
Do you know what's on Dalia's new year dinner table? Veal! go check the facts.
Do you know that during a December 1998 dinner hosted by then French President Jacques Chirac for Nobel Peace Prize recipients and human rights activists, the Dalai Lama was served a special meatless meal. Instead, he asked for a entrée with meat?
Thank you Dominic. If something does try to eat me my wish is that I would learn from the experience. It probably wouldn't be the lesson you might think though since I am a strict vegan myself :-). Best to you.
Fuzzy is right, we can't have faith in spirituality anymore than we can have faith in murder. We can't be sure of any thought in our head like "killing animals is wrong" or "morality is a human invention". These are just thoughts and they will come and go if we let them. And If we decide to believe them, then they become true for us. We become whatever we believe. I'm not saying they are or aren't true, just that we can't ever truly be sure.
But I disagree with him when he says there is nothing to have faith in. There is one thing that we can be sure of and thus can have faith in. The feeling of "I am". We can have faith in this and this alone. Its a place to start. Rest in that feeling of "I am" and notice what makes you leave it. Perhaps the rest will follow when we start from this place. The only place where our faith can truly lie.
we are all spirit soul even the lowest creature, we are the same only our residing body is diff.. as a human form we are very fortunate to have this coz we can inquire and understand what life is... so as a son of god a part and parcel of god.. we must respect all the living entities, they have a life to be free.. not to to kill and eat them... in bibble said, " flesh and blood Cannot inherit to the kingdom of God!!!
There is nothing wrong with killing animals humanely for food. But animals are NOT killed cleanly today. Watch EARTHLINGS video to see what is wrong with todays world. Indochinese buddhists, are not at all vegetarian. HomoSapiens are Omnivores. Fact.
There's nothing humane about killing it's just a word to make the consumer feel better, at the end of the day you're uneccessarily extinguishing one life to further your own. Homosapiens are classified as omnivores in most sources but in those sources it also mentions our highly developed brain and reasoning skills, with this we can make decisions on what we are. How can man advance physically and spiritually if you are complacent that what it says in a bilology text book is all you will ever be
Dear Lexusnoir, Life, always leads to Death. God kills, Shiva kills, cats kill and so does Man. There is nothing wrong with being vegetarian, but please throw away your illusions that Vegetarians bring World Peace or higher spirituality. Vegetarians are just as responsible for the Failure of Man on Earth, as meat-eaters. I myself am Vegetarian and I know; vegetarianism DOESNT make me innocent or spiritually higher than anyone else. Have a Nice Day.
Using your banal logic, since life always leads to death, there's nothing wrong with murder. If I killed you, so what? You're just going to die anyhow.
The reality is, most people couldn't give a shit who suffers as long as it's not them. Look at how much Americans care about the death in Iraq, are Americans demanding an end to the war now that a Democrat is president? They never cared, they just didn't like Bush, they are fine with his policies, apparently.
Dear Fuzzy, Calling my logic "banal" is insulting- you have assumed moral superiority and immediately become morally inferior by the arrogance of your dogma. Because a panther kills a rabbit, doesnt mean youre allowed to murder me. Your Analogy is false. We need more respect for animals, which can be seen in the animal rights film EARTHLINGS. Man & Beast, deserve nothing more or less than, Clean Life, Clean Death. Beware of Conceit, and HaveAniceDay : ) See the Big Picture!
I'm not a buddhist, and your logic is banal and simplistic and misleading.
Using simplistic reasoning is not using reasoning at all, it only serves to draw the reader to a false conclusion, there is no reason to analogies at all except as an introduction to a more complicated through that cannot be expressed directly.
Furthermore, morality is human invention and is likely the result of reciprocal altruism and is therefore that which benefits gene duplication, and nothing else.
"Reasoning, is a mental program, very helpful, but also very limited!"
Are you serious?
The reason we don't live in the dark ages, that your life expectancy is beyond 40 years, that you have a computer in front of you, is because of that "very limited" "mental program".
And then, you're telling ME to grow up. How old are you? 17? Think you're an adult, but not quite there?
Given all data, logic always leads to truth, without exception.
What? Were you rational and sane at one point too?
Then I assume you found the path of spirituality, what is mistakenly called truth by you.
It's fine for people who believe what they want to believe, but don't call it truth, because it's not. It's faith. I don't have any faith, in anything.
fuzzy, I think you are correct, you have no faith in anything. Check out Alexander Lowen, he has said a person who has no 'faith' can't experience life to its fullest, irrespectifve whether they are an agnostic or atheist. I have a feeling you are NOT a seeker of truth, because, "truth" would upset your mental pardigm! I tried, but you are still a 'kid' and I don't think truth would be recognized by your limited mental program. Good Luck!
Truth is a vaguely defined concept to you, for me, it's very real and harsh concept.
With regard to "upsetting my mental paradigm", well, I'm not jumping from one religion to another or grasping to philosophies every few yours, which I bet you are.
I'm sorry, that facts upset you! Fuzzy, you're 'poser',not anywhere,what you think you are! You cover you lack of knowledge,by your irrational anger! I have one suggestion for you, my friend "Go home and get your fuckin' shine box" You don't belong in the intellectual arena, because you're 'facile puerile' sillness exposes you to being a 'boy'! A boy who belongs in the gutter,not with intelligent people. Now go away!
You think I'm angry, which is funny. I don't know where you get that from.
I know need to be lectured about where I belong either. You're free to believe in what you want, I don't care, but it's silly and arrogant to make the assumption that what you believe, the FAITH you have, is correct.
The Dalai Lama loves to eat meat (especially veal), according to his own website.
He claims that he need to eat meat because he contracted hepatitis. Yet there is no nutrient in meat that cannot be found in a vegetarian diet! And liver diseases (such as hepatitis) require the reduction of meat consumption!
And even if he did require meat, he should not choose veal, the most cruel of meats: calves raised in small crates, where they cannot move.
Thank you dune, I have been saying this for the last couple of years. Protein is composed of amino acids, rice and beans are complete protein. Or he could eat Whey! He's a 'hypocrite'! I would rather succumb to illness than betray my most basic beliefs. If you are unwilling to kill your own children & eat them, in order to obtain, protein, then DON'T kill our 'friends' and 'comrades' in this material manifestation. He probably is a CIA stooge! What's next 3 martini lunches.
I really think vegetarianism is the way to go against animal cruelty. What I found interesting was Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, in his video, The Joy of Liberating Animals on Youtube, advised his students to turn vegetarian to create the causes to build an animal sanctuary or shelter. This is to show their commitment to care for animals instead of just saying they care. We dont really care for animals if we keep eating them every meal!
Certain things, are self evident! If you need a guru, then, I suggest you look in the eyes, of any mammel, it is self evident, if you have a 'heart'. I love all creatures, especially, my dog, my best friend,Charlie, he is filled with the joy of life,he has taught me more, than any man! His heart, connects him to the universe, and so does mine. You ask about intelligence? The intelligence to hate, to lust, to greed? Haven't eaten my animal 'friends' in 30 years,
a truely spiritual person who has had the revelations of God would know that all life is spirit in its flesh and that mankind excuses eating the reproductive organs of plants, as well as their seed. It is quite gross and sexual when you truly fathom it. Imagine if plants did that to us. Yuck. Humans are gods and need no sustinence from flesh, only from spirit. The body and this physical world are a delusion from the evil beings. We must escape Maya and enter Paradise!
Good point! This man says because of 'health issues' he's required to eat meat! The Dalai Lama is a fraud, the Chinese, who I despise may be right, he's a tool of the intelligence community. Meat means protein, protein means amino acids, that can be gotten from many sources.Why doesn't he eat rice and beans. The Dalai Lama,is a fraud,a leader stays, with his people If he was a true leader, he'd share the fate of the Tibetan people.He probably is too busy drinking martini's.
I loved your comment mitchmo..kindness is kindness.......go vegan you will so much better...you havent ingested the suffering of another living creature...
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In certain schools of Buddhism, there's a degree of emphasis placed on how one thinks in response to a situation or dilemma. Meat eating is a 'situation' for some, and could possibly be a 'dilemma' for others. Why is there any need to struggle over this issue with vegetarianism? When one is ready, one will, thru the guidance of his/her inner voice, adopt the diet one chooses. Forcing the thought, which propels the action, creates karma and requires energy. Instead, go do a good deed for another.
By not directly or indirectly contributing to killing of living beings, one's Boddhisattve vow of working for the benefit of others is advanced. There is more "karma" in killing than the mental "struggle". The "forcing of thought" is the Boddhisattva vow! It liberates one from karma because it trades the ego for others. We are all in this together, people, animals, ghosts, gods and goddesses, spirits lost in samsara. Kindness is kindness.
You are so perceptive in your observation Sir. Your view represents the ideal condition of how one should aspire to conduct one's life. However, there may arise situations where choice may be a luxury...for eg - monks who go on alms rounds in Asia, they accept whatever food is given with grace and contentment. This may be a poor eg, but a valid one nonetheless. Thank you sincerely for your convictions.
Buddhism differentiates between sentient and non-sentient beings. People shoud nto eat animals nto only because they are lives, but also because they can suffer. If you grab them, they run. Plants dont. And eating animals kill more plants anyways - you need to use wayyy more plants to feed animals
I have a question: Not eating meat on the basis of compassion and nonviolence is based on the idea that vegetables and plants are not living beings. But we know that plants and vegetables also do have life and want to live. What is the definition of live? The teaching of not eating meat seems to be a contradiction.
FOr instance the livestock industry caues 18% of green house warming, where ALL of transport only causes 13%. You can read that and other facts in the UNs report.
Simply put the vegan diet eats low on the food chain and so causes the least amount of destruction and pulltion and cruelty.
(not possibvle to be 100% cruelty free but it is worth tryying, since i have been vegan i have been much 'lighter' in myself)
if u eat meat u actually kill more plants than if u are vegan.
Because many more plants must be fed to the animal you kill. Than if u just ate the plants directly.
Look up anything to dowith the environmental impact of meat on google. Livestocks long shadow is a report form the UN on the destruction livestock/meat is causing teh planet.
As the most unstable element for Tibet and representative of serf owners, the Dalai Lama is not qualified for talking about human rights
"There is no historical evidence or present ground for the so called 'Greater Tibet' and 'high degree of autonomy', which are also against the will of the Tibetan people," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, told a press conference on sideline with the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC).
you don't 'need' meat. that is a value of understanding that only human beings have. BUT, you can't just 'be' vegetarian... you have to be much more aware of what is going into your body and know that you are getting proper nutrition. this goes for a omnivorous diet as well, though. your body requires amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients that are easily found in vegetarian diet.
I have read that the Dalai Lama eats meat. Apparently his doctors have advised him to do so for health reasons. There's info about this on the web. I stopped eating meat for long periods of time, experiemented with raw foods diet, breatharianism, etc. Then I got sick. I had chronic fatigue for three years. A nutritionist told me my body needed meat. I began eating meat again and very slowly recovered my strength. This has been a confusing issue for me.
I think you need to have a health body, so you should eat a diet suitable to your lifestyle and up bringing. Where possible eat vegetarian and when eating meat just say some quick prayers for the animals you eat and show appreciation. maybe do this all the time? In the end an ethicak descision may not be black and white, we just try our best. I hope this helps
thanks hearer87. that's a good and thoughtful answer. i notice as i explore this topic on the web, that some vegetarian sites are taking the kind of approach you take. small steps are better than nothing. eating with appreciation and consciousness is a good start. perhaps once a few steps are taken, others will open up.
dude ive been vegan for about 5 years and ive never felt better, i had to change the way i eat thu and get good quality food or take a vitamin pill. I would be 20kg heaveier if i wasnt vegan too.
Seriously read the Amercian Dieticans association position paper on vege diets,
they say it is perfectly healthy for all people and that it is even used to treat diseases such as diabetes 2, heart disease and can prevent these and certain types of cancer, hypertension etc.
very nice thank you, people don't realize that wars are a direct reaction to animal slaughter,abortions and other forms of cruelty to any living entity,they only see the so called material reasons for action and conflict and not the subtle causes triggered of by their actions
Several studies have been conducted wiring plants up to polygraph machines, they react when a person harms another plant in their presence or if they have done it prior to entering the room. In other words, it appears they are capable of monitoring intent! In addition, it's recently been discovered that they chemically communicate to protect other plant forms from harm, e.g. marauding caterpillars, giving other plants the opportunity to produce chemical repellents. Say thank you when you munch!
Even if this is true, it doesn't change the main reason for vegetarianism/veganism. We have to eat something to survive and eating plants means less suffering, even if no suffering at all is impossible. Remember, then you have to use (more or less) 10g of plant protein in order to get 1g of animal protein.
I read some of those studies too. I am personally going through the process of considering becoming a vegetarian. But if i do it, i want it to be as sincere as possible and be convinced of my reasons. One question: if 10g of plant protein = 1g of animal protein, doesn't this mean that more plants than animals have to be killed in order to reach the body requirements?, and if that so, how can it be that "eating plants means less suffering", if suffering (at least in this case)can not be measured
Our body doesn't really have different requirements regarding animal and plant protein; plant proteins are just fine. Unfortunately, there is a lot of mythology regarding proteins in our societies. In fact, it would be quite hard to think out a sufficient calorie, whole-food diet that leads to protein deficiency. I recommend the book "The China Study"; it will change your life. :-) Or if you interested, you can google "Brief History of Protein, McDougall" to find an article about this subject.
protein is broken down into amino acids, and animal protein doesn't always have a 12 essential amino acids. animal protien also doesn't break down in the body nearly as easily as protein found in beans or nuts. the point is you can easily get just as many amino acids from vegetarian foods as meat products.
(contnd from below)It is impossible for one being to live without the death of another, this is the nature of maya even if you think youre somehow free from any responsibility because you dont eat meat if you live in a house, millions of creatures living in the soil before would have died and lost their homes for you if you wear leather shoes an animal has been slaughtered if you eat vegetables there would have been creatures who lost their homes and their lives for you among the roots and soil.
The one thing i cant get my head around is in having compassion for all living things why is it then ok to kill vegetables and plants but not animals? Are animals are more special than plants and you dont need to have compassion for them because they dont make a sound when they're being slaughtered? I dont buy it.
this is just an excuse meateaters use, they claim plants feel pain so they can feel better about eating meat, it is obvious they do not possess the physiology to feel pain anywhere near the scale of animals.
Well, I don't know where you got the information that plants do feel pain, because that's an article I would read. Anyways, eating meat is bad because it takes so much from the earth, it brings pollution and for all the grain fed to future slaughtered animals, we could feed poor countries. Also, in most of the cases you don't eat a plant itself, you eat the fruits of a plant or tree. I think it's a poor excuse. The only really dead things we could eat then, are sand, stones and water.
cameltheif,Would you rather skin your cat or mow your lawn? Plants lack sense organs, and lack nervous systems to process signals from sense organs is my understanding. so do you live of air? or o
His Holiness was a vegetarian all his life, it's better he stays alive, helps the world, and at the same time can direct the animals conciousness, what a lucky animal! People shouldn't knock his Holiness without knowing the facts. Appearences can be very deceptive!
precioustange 2 months ago
@precioustange Yea... but this isn't change fact that His Holiness isn't vegetarian. He teach one thing and do the other...What this attitude is called...wait... i know...something for H word.
bot16 3 weeks ago
Very beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing this video.
MettaTaiChi 4 months ago
He is almost one..he only eats a vegetarian diet, as is evidenced by his website. wish he were completely vegetarian, but maybe someday ? I am vegan and proud of it, because when I eat, I realize nothing has died, likely in pain, for my nutrition. To do less makes us complicit in their painful deaths,and it is relatively easy to do. Please consider being at least vegetarian, its the compassionate thing to do ;)
neighborlee 6 months ago
Video is nice, quotes true and inspiring - but what has dalai lama to do with it ?
violinoamore 6 months ago
It is a great delight to be a vegetarian.
DoomedToLiveAndDie 6 months ago
“In the early 1960s, I became a vegetarian, and stayed strictly vegetarian for almost two years. But I contracted hepatitis and I went back to my old regime.”
– The Dalai Lama (Reader's Digest, 2004)
My mum studied under one of Dalai Lama's disciples, who eats meat, and he said that at the top of Tibet, where nothing grows, there are only yaks to eat.
My sister stopped being vegetarian after reading the following two pages: scribd.com/doc/29583992
(Zoom in to read)
Beautiful music though!
FIRSTconcentrate 6 months ago
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FIRSTconcentrate 7 months ago
Buddhists from Tibet are not vegetarians.
sclaysdharma 7 months ago
I always found vegetarianism to be rather hypocritical. The argument is that animals are intelligent and deserve fair and ethical treatment but plants are often times smarter (Just can express it but they do have emotions and spirits just like any other form of life) and they are technically more evolved than humans (different evolutionary direction but they are further along than we are. So it is arguably more unethical to eat plants than it is meat. Fun Fact.
Anyway good video. :)
Kevin7557 7 months ago 2
@Kevin7557 I don't know if what you say about plants is true. I'm not sure if we can ever be certain about those claims. But if they are true, I'm not sure that vegetarianism is against the eating of animals because they are intelligent. I think it is because animals feel pain and have a desire to live. I don't know if plants have that. Maybe they do.
KrfNYC2 5 months ago
I'm a practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism & believe me, I know many lamas who love to eat meat. They say they have mantras for blessing the meat before eating them. But I still think it's ironic!
10LightYears 8 months ago
*** HUMAN LIFE IS HOLY.......AND THE LIFE OR SOME GODDAMN CHICKEN OR DOG IS NOT***
TOLTECAAZTECA 9 months ago
@TOLTECAAZTECA you have no idea!
Seiosh 6 months ago
@Seiosh Actually i do.Chicken taste so fucking gooooooooood.
TOLTECAAZTECA 6 months ago
Great video. My only "complaint" here is that the Dalai Lama himself is not really a vegetarian.
bgkarma 9 months ago 8
@bgkarma HH eats 1 time in the couple of months little bit of meat because he has hypatitis b and he will become really sick if he dont eat little bit, but he strongly encourage everyone to be vegeterian moreover, high Lama's such as HH can direct the mind of the being into the next life form some Lamas can dertimen the next life form for the being. HH eats strictly only because the body he lives in at present moment askes for this otherwise he would die.
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@bgkarma In addition to @Yamarukun comment ...HH had been a very strict vegetarian for more that 7 years (absolutely no meat or any animal ,even no eggs ) ..but became very sick and the doctors told him if he dont eat some meat from time to time he would probably die due to his sickness! So its not intentionaly..
vek0zzzz 2 weeks ago
Great video. My only "complaint" here is that the Dalai Lama himself is not really a vegetarian.
bgkarma 9 months ago
Beautiful, give thanks for the light! One love!
TheAnnafisher 10 months ago
Do you not 'kill' a head of lettuce when you pluck it out of the ground?
tobesograteful 10 months ago
This really shows anyone can change and transform their life. I grew up loving meat and hating vegetable, then something shifted inside after listening to some Buddhist discourses and reading up on the way animals are being treated in the slaughterhouses and so-called animal testing on products and medication. I decided not only to be vegetarian but give this information to anybody who is willing to listen. The spiritual path is often a lonely path but the benefits are immense, don't give up !
bliss6120 10 months ago
Even though I'm a converting vegetarian, I also believe in refraining from killing life. And Plants are also life.
True True spiritual pratisioners are breatharians and can go without eating, like Buddha himself.
madzane94 10 months ago
@madzane94 I agree with the Jain culture, religion. The will not eat any plant that kills it. Hence potato's etc are not food. Only fruits, and plants that offer seed bearing nourishment. We eat the them and we spread them around the world via our excrement, all herbivore animals do this. There is a documentary, "Botany of Desire"
Plants manifest color, shape, fragrance to lure animals to eat them, there for their life is spread around the world. Apples, oranges, grapes etc.
chakrachaser 10 months ago
@chakrachaser Great insight, will definatley be checking out that documentary.
I too am aware the significance of fruits. Just look at their life, they're born, and when they get "old" they ripen and fall off the tree for consumption, where it's seed is given to the earth
How amaing is nature?
I'm sure Buddha saw this, hence why he refrained from all eating, and Christ speaks of similar matters in A Gospel not chosen by constantine for the New Testament Cannon. "The Gospel of The Holy Twelve."
madzane94 10 months ago
What a great contribution you give to Vegetarianism cause.
What's the name of the song, please?
Greetings from Italy.
biglalu 10 months ago
And Buddhism isn't really a religion. Whereas all religions dictate and brainwash their followers by telling them this is right and you must live by these rules, Buddhism teaches a moral peaceful way of life, and Buddhism attracts open minded individuals, there aren't many people in the world who wish to open their minds due to fear of ridicule from others. When more people open their hearts and minds, the Buddhist philosophy makes sense.
12345ceb 11 months ago
@12345ceb
Buddhism is indeed a religion. You clearly don't know anything about Buddhism lol. Certain types of buddhism have different rules and etc. but of course we have rules. :U
SerenityShootingStar 11 months ago
Wow, lovely video and so right. The day all mankind has a way of life like this i will rejoice! I think humans have a long way to go unfortunately, but spread the word in a non forceful way that vegetarianism is the way forward. Peace people :-)
12345ceb 11 months ago
Buddhism seems like the only logical and sensible 'religion' to follow, more like a philosophy than any thing.
SSJJackAzz 1 year ago 2
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Thoughts are more powerful than food. Lots of highly enlightened beings eat animals. Plants are beings too. You yourself will someday die and be food for the earth. Everything dies at some point...ever hear of Karma...lol!! Once a certain point is reached it all is pointless, but if not at the point of constant compassion and full recognition of emptiness then the world must seem quite real and solid with solid truths that you can side with and be right. hahahahah!!
smorilon22 1 year ago
Thoughts are more powerful than food. Lots of highly enlightened beings eat animals. Plants are beings too. You yourself will someday die and be food for the earth. Everything dies at some point...ever hear of Karma...lol!! Once a certain point is reached it all is pointless, but if not at the point of constant compassion and full recognition of emptiness then the world must seem quite real and solid with solid truths that you can side with and be right. hahahahah!!
smorilon22 1 year ago
@smorilon22 Karma? A pretty word for things happening to people? Yeah, I've heard of it.
SSJJackAzz 1 year ago
The Essence of Buddhism is Non violence and Compassion, how can one contribute to the torturing and slaughtering of helpless animals practice this way of life and claim to be Buddhist ? We should really try to practice what the Buddha taught instead of pretending to be a practitioner ! It won't work !
bliss6120 1 year ago 14
@bliss6120 I grew up, in a hunter family, being taught to hunt, kill, for meat and entertainment. Something happened at 28yrs of age that I can not explain. I sold my guns, and stopped being cruel to animal. Some energy touched my heart and cried out to me. Stop this. Now my family thinks I have gone insane, crazy. I realize this is a difficult path I have chosen, not for the timid or shy. We must "pursue the truth like a man with his head on fire" searching for water.
chakrachaser 10 months ago
Nice video, i will try to upload it as well with different tags and title - maybe geared towards Christians! (7th Day Adventists, Hare Krishna, Rasta) too. ChristianVeg (dot) org is a good group.
Regardless factory farms are cruel to other helpless mammals, meat is unnecessary today, contributes to health problems (costs and countless human deaths), destroys gods planet/enironment and even world hunger (1lb flesh per 10lbs of grain/corn inefficiently fed to them, while people go hungry).
VeganMotorcyclePilot 1 year ago
the only thing I know is that some Buddhists are vegetarian and that others eat meat and teach compassion lol. Buddha's teachings are beautiful and I think if you teach them then u better practice what you believe!!
merce0909 1 year ago
What song is this?
paulojunior201 1 year ago
there has been more than one dali lama you know
circlestream 1 year ago
What beautiful people: what a beautiful belief, how I'd love to live amongst them rather than with the DEMONIC humans who hurt our prescious animals x
whichypoohs 1 year ago 2
dali lama is almost as bad as the pope...
Uuuurk 1 year ago
dalai lama is NOT vegetarian
guilherme90ce 1 year ago
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Fuck vegetarianism - go liquidarian or breatharian. The more liquidy the better.
1. Humans didnt eat food until reptilians messed with us (Eden)
2. Humans lived to 1000 except for accidents until religion promised heaven upon death, thus making them "prepare" for it (but all that really happens is you get another body because youre not supposed to die ever)
3. The golden age IS here the days of immortality are here but it takes fitness, fasting and watching my favorited videos :) GOOD LUCK!!!
TheUtuber00 1 year ago
I agree that sensless killing,just for the pleasure of it i sick...however there are carnivourous animals.You dont blame a lion for killing and eating but you blame the human being.Its true that you can live without meat , but only if you sit around all day meditating.Try doing some hard phisycal work only on raw foods. (excuse my bad english
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v3lial 1 year ago
This is a complete load of bollocks because the Dalai Lama is NOT a vegetarian.
KenE252525 1 year ago
@KenE252525
it doesn't make this video bolocks if the current Lama isn't a vegetarian.
colloredbrothers 1 year ago
thank you for posting this. its great to learn from and watch.
click on my name and watch my videos and hopefully you'll like them.
be sure to tell your friends.
markdouglasdoran74 1 year ago
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Dalai Lama EATS meat hence he is a total filthy bastard hypocritical bogus, period. Thank you all who are true vegetarians and love all the other beings, o my kinda people.
SamuelSkelter 1 year ago
@SamuelSkelter AGREED! haha..i read it in one of his books that he is a vegetarian most of the time because he doesn't want to get sick and die...WTF!!!!
GeezLeeweez 1 year ago
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@GeezLeeweez Yeah. He's a filthy bastard, a fucking hypocrite, another one from the whole 'holy' gang which is actually filthy from the roots. He throws his false puritan shit over the people but he himself is a bloody cuntybollock wankstains, that bastard.
SamuelSkelter 1 year ago
Excellent Video... Namaste!
xiomanf 1 year ago
wonderful video! Namaste!
adelastefanov 1 year ago
Beautiful video.
kosauce 1 year ago
Namaste.
PurposeOnEarth 1 year ago
thank you for this video. I am vegetarian for those reasons and I find the way we treat animals here in the west is disgusting. I am so happy to find supporters and protectors of animals. thank you. Peace and Love.
fra3rd 1 year ago 2
This video and the quotes are very nice. I live in a rural area in Europe and frankly my message is "vegetarian world wake up". There are trucks taking animals to slaughterhouses day after day...I see them daily. It is terrible. Cruelty has overcome the good...greed has rushed ahead and devoured the world. I don't know what to do. I am vegetarian...but need to connect with other vegetarians...I ask that you do all you can to promote vegetarianism, self-respect and respect of life.
cleomeable 1 year ago
Dalai lama is not vegetarion, he eat the MEAT daily !
XpresloX 1 year ago
I am so happy that i am vegitarian.
Yamarukun 1 year ago
Speaking of vegetarian I found a pretty interesting book on Amazon Kindle that's worth checking out. It called "Why You Must Become A Vegetarian". Definitely worth checking out
superfasttwittercash 1 year ago
Great video! I would encourage you to continue doing this line of work. It was put together very well. Many blessings
sleepingbuddhaT 1 year ago
To the person who made this video-- it's beautiful, but it contains misspelled words, which cheapens the quality:
"nonvoilent" at 1:05 should be "non-violent" ("violent" is spelled IO not OI )
"nonvoilence" at 1:05 should be "non-violence"
There's also something wrong with the quote at 1:23... it doesn't make any sense.
soomiboomi 1 year ago
Does someone know the title of this beautiful music?
agnostoatomo 1 year ago
@agnostoatomo ocean of long life by peter kater
lemoni68 1 year ago
If your heartpulsing awakened mind connects you with the sentient being that was entangled with that meat and the honest wish occurs: May we both be connected karmically through this act until full awakening and support each other throughout this and future lives until all suffering has ceased once and forever,then it doesn't matter if you give your meat or meat is given to you.But who of us is honestly daring such a view beyond right and wrong?
agnostoatomo 1 year ago
Naprawdę cenny jest ten materiał, jestem veganinem i pragnę z całego serca zostać mnichem w Cittaviveka składając dodatkowe ślubowania aby powstrzymać się od jedzenia mięsa. Sorry, but I'm the Polish and my English is not especially good :-) therfore I'm writing in Polish language, sorry once again. Vegetarianism&Buddhism!
DhammaForAll 1 year ago
Be mindful of your motive of your heart and the experience of your energy in the all inclusive eternal moment. Nothing is inherently ''wrong' or 'right' in itself. The Buddhist way is to 'strive' to be vegetarian as it encourages compassion towards all sentinent things in all things BUT (especially if a male) don't become ill in the process. Don't go to extremes. Start by cutting down to just chicken and fish. Then to just fish. Then just quorn.Let your body get used to the changes gradually.
norrisonthespot 1 year ago
Pour l'être humain, le gavage à la viande n'est pas une nécessité absolu de survie.
> Respect du vivant sans dogmatisme
> L'élevage industriel pose de réels problèmes éthiques et environnementaux
PriolTorcy 2 years ago
Stop judging others,if you are a vegetarian that's fine live silently.....don't create an image of a 'Vegetarian' in your mind and judge others based on that...have compassion for all......whether they eat meat or not....may all living beings be happy and well..Sabbe Satta Bawanthu Suki Thaththa...
chandikaliyanawaduge 2 years ago
one of my favourite veggie vids to date!
lindaliriel 2 years ago
Some Buddhist try to justify eating meat by saying "As long as the animal was not killed pacifically for me eating it, Then it is Ok" Now as Buddhist we are suppose to be against Violence, But with that philosophy on meat it pretty much says we well be okay with War,Murder,Rape,child abuse, As long as those things have nothing to do with us. But in any Religion there is always a group of people who try to find Loop Holes. But in Karma, Good is Good, bad is bad rather you believe it to be or not
DisturbedVEGAN 2 years ago
If you are a vegetarian i respect that but....this whole debate of whether to eat meat or not is simply stupid,the most important problem is whether you have come out of the illusion of 'I' or not.Till then you'll never know what the truest way of living is....stop being candles in the sun.....
chandikaliyanawaduge 2 years ago
Sin ? Sinful is NOT what a person puts into their mouth !!! Sin, (bad karma etc), is just what can come OUT of a persons mouth ! (Arabian proverb). God roasts, kills and eats us all... Think about it : ) I am more vegetarian than the Thai Buddhist town I live in !!! But I have ZERO problem, with thrusting a knife into a beastie, and THANKING it, for its meat.
Steveguyatrocket 1 year ago
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cpvu1991 1 year ago
I have met his holiness, the Dalai Lama. He openly admits to eating meat for health reasons. I eat a vegan diet. Yet I do not judge those who eat meat. Humans are higher on the food chain than many animals. Animals, such as lions and grizzly bears, would eat us in a heart beat if given the opportunity.
donshade 2 years ago
Also, killing of anything goes against the Great spirit of compassion, Our true nature, our pure original nature is greatly compassionate.
Soldiergirl7777 2 years ago
While i love everyone, the Buddha says, how can any spiritual personwho approaches all living things as if they were himself eat the flesh of something that is of the same nature as himself??? we all have Buddha nature, animals included, they feel, they cry, they love, they hurt just like us. so sad so many can find excuses to disrespect life that is so precious. When you eat meat all you are doing is deriving pleasure from another sentient beings suffering. And there is karmic retribution.
Soldiergirl7777 2 years ago
Buddhists can eat meat wich has been not killed for them. You don' t gain karma in that way. Every buddhis must eat what they receve as offering, meat included.
consunzione 2 years ago
Face the fact:
Dalai Lama EATS MEAT!
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That is the ugly truth.
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OptionM45 2 years ago
Obama also eats meat
That's the most ugly truth.
I think even u OptionM45 also eat meat.
So how many you should blame for eating meat. one, two, three ......................
pema88 2 years ago
@pema88
To your totally ignorant comment:
Obama can eat meat, you and I can eat meat.
But a Buddhist monk is not suppose to eat meat.
Do you know why? Go learn a little bit about Buddhism from some where besides the crackpot Dalai Lama.
OptionM45 2 years ago
Oh u shity, i am a Buddhist. i know more than u. u first learn okay. then say big words. people like u r being paid by fucking Chinese government. for writing such a fucking words. how much u r paid.
pema88 2 years ago
@pema88
Yeah right, the CCP want me to say happy new year to "stupid white men" like you.
OptionM45 2 years ago
OptionM45
Yeah right, ha ha ha. happy new year wishes for u from CCP.
pema88 2 years ago
@pema88
Do you know what's on Dalia's new year dinner table? Veal! go check the facts.
Do you know that during a December 1998 dinner hosted by then French President Jacques Chirac for Nobel Peace Prize recipients and human rights activists, the Dalai Lama was served a special meatless meal. Instead, he asked for a entrée with meat?
OptionM45 2 years ago 2
Thank you Dominic. If something does try to eat me my wish is that I would learn from the experience. It probably wouldn't be the lesson you might think though since I am a strict vegan myself :-). Best to you.
erocker4 2 years ago
Fuzzy is right, we can't have faith in spirituality anymore than we can have faith in murder. We can't be sure of any thought in our head like "killing animals is wrong" or "morality is a human invention". These are just thoughts and they will come and go if we let them. And If we decide to believe them, then they become true for us. We become whatever we believe. I'm not saying they are or aren't true, just that we can't ever truly be sure.
erocker4 2 years ago
You're a dangerous idiot. I hope something eats you when you try to crawl home and you go on to learn from the experience.
DominickBlack 2 years ago
But I disagree with him when he says there is nothing to have faith in. There is one thing that we can be sure of and thus can have faith in. The feeling of "I am". We can have faith in this and this alone. Its a place to start. Rest in that feeling of "I am" and notice what makes you leave it. Perhaps the rest will follow when we start from this place. The only place where our faith can truly lie.
erocker4 2 years ago
Wonderful touching video!
MahatmaGali 2 years ago
i made a video about veganism you should watch
Lacobrigus 2 years ago
very inspiring!
who plays the music?
tefson 2 years ago
we are all spirit soul even the lowest creature, we are the same only our residing body is diff.. as a human form we are very fortunate to have this coz we can inquire and understand what life is... so as a son of god a part and parcel of god.. we must respect all the living entities, they have a life to be free.. not to to kill and eat them... in bibble said, " flesh and blood Cannot inherit to the kingdom of God!!!
deathiscertain13 2 years ago
There is nothing wrong with killing animals humanely for food. But animals are NOT killed cleanly today. Watch EARTHLINGS video to see what is wrong with todays world. Indochinese buddhists, are not at all vegetarian. HomoSapiens are Omnivores. Fact.
Steveguyatrocket 2 years ago
There's nothing humane about killing it's just a word to make the consumer feel better, at the end of the day you're uneccessarily extinguishing one life to further your own. Homosapiens are classified as omnivores in most sources but in those sources it also mentions our highly developed brain and reasoning skills, with this we can make decisions on what we are. How can man advance physically and spiritually if you are complacent that what it says in a bilology text book is all you will ever be
lexusnoir 2 years ago
Dear Lexusnoir, Life, always leads to Death. God kills, Shiva kills, cats kill and so does Man. There is nothing wrong with being vegetarian, but please throw away your illusions that Vegetarians bring World Peace or higher spirituality. Vegetarians are just as responsible for the Failure of Man on Earth, as meat-eaters. I myself am Vegetarian and I know; vegetarianism DOESNT make me innocent or spiritually higher than anyone else. Have a Nice Day.
Steveguyatrocket 2 years ago 2
Using your banal logic, since life always leads to death, there's nothing wrong with murder. If I killed you, so what? You're just going to die anyhow.
The reality is, most people couldn't give a shit who suffers as long as it's not them. Look at how much Americans care about the death in Iraq, are Americans demanding an end to the war now that a Democrat is president? They never cared, they just didn't like Bush, they are fine with his policies, apparently.
That's the vapidity of people.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago
Dear Fuzzy, Calling my logic "banal" is insulting- you have assumed moral superiority and immediately become morally inferior by the arrogance of your dogma. Because a panther kills a rabbit, doesnt mean youre allowed to murder me. Your Analogy is false. We need more respect for animals, which can be seen in the animal rights film EARTHLINGS. Man & Beast, deserve nothing more or less than, Clean Life, Clean Death. Beware of Conceit, and HaveAniceDay : ) See the Big Picture!
Steveguyatrocket 2 years ago
I'm not a buddhist, and your logic is banal and simplistic and misleading.
Using simplistic reasoning is not using reasoning at all, it only serves to draw the reader to a false conclusion, there is no reason to analogies at all except as an introduction to a more complicated through that cannot be expressed directly.
Furthermore, morality is human invention and is likely the result of reciprocal altruism and is therefore that which benefits gene duplication, and nothing else.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago
Are you aware of how ridiculous you sound!
Reasoning, is a mental program, very
helpful, but also very limited!
Come back in a few years fuzzy, when you
explore the rest of the 'mind', its workings
and potential!
I'm not trying to insult you, it's just that
you are 'ignorant' and lack the 'vision'
of the whole panorama!
fntime 2 years ago
"Reasoning, is a mental program, very helpful, but also very limited!"
Are you serious?
The reason we don't live in the dark ages, that your life expectancy is beyond 40 years, that you have a computer in front of you, is because of that "very limited" "mental program".
And then, you're telling ME to grow up. How old are you? 17? Think you're an adult, but not quite there?
Given all data, logic always leads to truth, without exception.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago 2
fuzzy, if I offended you, I apoligize!
You're very young, & I was there once.
At your age, I was involved with the 'Objectivist', a school of Ayn Rands,
ideas & beliefs.
I know where you are coming from,I was
there. I'm not telling you logic, is wrong,
or rationality is wrong! You're right
all of the great achievements of the 20th
century, was complemented by logic &
reason. I'm not telling you to discard reason.
fntime 2 years ago
Fuzzy, if you want my explantion, then please, e-mail....
I'm not arguing with you, but I think I can
save you many years, in the seach of truth.
You sound exactly like me, many years
ago.....
If not, my best wishes go with you!
fntime 2 years ago
What? Were you rational and sane at one point too?
Then I assume you found the path of spirituality, what is mistakenly called truth by you.
It's fine for people who believe what they want to believe, but don't call it truth, because it's not. It's faith. I don't have any faith, in anything.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago
fntime 2 years ago
I don't care waht Alexander Lowen said.
Truth is a vaguely defined concept to you, for me, it's very real and harsh concept.
With regard to "upsetting my mental paradigm", well, I'm not jumping from one religion to another or grasping to philosophies every few yours, which I bet you are.
And really, I just don't care to argue this.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago
fntime 2 years ago
Facts upset me? Like what facts?
You think I'm angry, which is funny. I don't know where you get that from.
I know need to be lectured about where I belong either. You're free to believe in what you want, I don't care, but it's silly and arrogant to make the assumption that what you believe, the FAITH you have, is correct.
Faith by definition is irrational.
fuzzywzhe 2 years ago
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erocker4 2 years ago
What's wrong with Ayn Rand?
Achillesreborn 2 years ago
Beautiful. So incredibly inspiring. Its times like these that I wonder why I'm not a Buddhist lol.
sadbrwneyes989 2 years ago
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. Buddha
V7VIMANA 2 years ago 17
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V7VIMANA 2 years ago
The Dalai Lama loves to eat meat (especially veal), according to his own website.
He claims that he need to eat meat because he contracted hepatitis. Yet there is no nutrient in meat that cannot be found in a vegetarian diet! And liver diseases (such as hepatitis) require the reduction of meat consumption!
And even if he did require meat, he should not choose veal, the most cruel of meats: calves raised in small crates, where they cannot move.
Bottom line: the Dalai Lama is a hypocrite.
Dunestrider 2 years ago 2
fntime 2 years ago
Awesome Vid
jmm1233 2 years ago
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I really think vegetarianism is the way to go against animal cruelty. What I found interesting was Tsem Tulku Rinpoche, in his video, The Joy of Liberating Animals on Youtube, advised his students to turn vegetarian to create the causes to build an animal sanctuary or shelter. This is to show their commitment to care for animals instead of just saying they care. We dont really care for animals if we keep eating them every meal!
ChiKiCheong 2 years ago
fntime 2 years ago 2
thank you for being with us on this planet!
sacredshakti 2 years ago
a truely spiritual person who has had the revelations of God would know that all life is spirit in its flesh and that mankind excuses eating the reproductive organs of plants, as well as their seed. It is quite gross and sexual when you truly fathom it. Imagine if plants did that to us. Yuck. Humans are gods and need no sustinence from flesh, only from spirit. The body and this physical world are a delusion from the evil beings. We must escape Maya and enter Paradise!
accelduetograv 2 years ago
awesome! thank you for the teaching!!!
sacredshakti 2 years ago
But the Dalai Lama isn't vegetarian.
DanVath 2 years ago
fntime 2 years ago
I asked this before but I forgot, what is the name of this song and who is it by? I just don't want whoever posted it to take it down.
AfricanPrince 2 years ago
Great video.
ElectricMayhem87 2 years ago 7
Oh, please, tell me the name of the song)
cloudontongue 2 years ago
I loved your comment mitchmo..kindness is kindness.......go vegan you will so much better...you havent ingested the suffering of another living creature...
jaytor777 2 years ago
The Buddha is not quoted correctly. That statement is from a Mahayana sutra. It is only fictional.
tevung64 2 years ago
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Let's stop killing world all of you.
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sageunr 2 years ago
è bellissimo, grazie
lallaviv91 2 years ago
In certain schools of Buddhism, there's a degree of emphasis placed on how one thinks in response to a situation or dilemma. Meat eating is a 'situation' for some, and could possibly be a 'dilemma' for others. Why is there any need to struggle over this issue with vegetarianism? When one is ready, one will, thru the guidance of his/her inner voice, adopt the diet one chooses. Forcing the thought, which propels the action, creates karma and requires energy. Instead, go do a good deed for another.
faunandy 2 years ago
Love your comment "faunandy".
"When one is ready..."
Dharmaaaa 2 years ago
By not directly or indirectly contributing to killing of living beings, one's Boddhisattve vow of working for the benefit of others is advanced. There is more "karma" in killing than the mental "struggle". The "forcing of thought" is the Boddhisattva vow! It liberates one from karma because it trades the ego for others. We are all in this together, people, animals, ghosts, gods and goddesses, spirits lost in samsara. Kindness is kindness.
Mitchmo163 2 years ago
You are so perceptive in your observation Sir. Your view represents the ideal condition of how one should aspire to conduct one's life. However, there may arise situations where choice may be a luxury...for eg - monks who go on alms rounds in Asia, they accept whatever food is given with grace and contentment. This may be a poor eg, but a valid one nonetheless. Thank you sincerely for your convictions.
faunandy 2 years ago
The thing is, people take a good deed from a good person & take advantage of it. Don't let others take advantage of you.
helpmakethingsbetter 2 years ago
Buddhism differentiates between sentient and non-sentient beings. People shoud nto eat animals nto only because they are lives, but also because they can suffer. If you grab them, they run. Plants dont. And eating animals kill more plants anyways - you need to use wayyy more plants to feed animals
dancingcat87 2 years ago
I have a question: Not eating meat on the basis of compassion and nonviolence is based on the idea that vegetables and plants are not living beings. But we know that plants and vegetables also do have life and want to live. What is the definition of live? The teaching of not eating meat seems to be a contradiction.
jcahweng 2 years ago
I agree with you. I believe that this is why buddhism was invented to be a changing philosophy. This is something we need to find an answer to.
antivert 2 years ago
FOr instance the livestock industry caues 18% of green house warming, where ALL of transport only causes 13%. You can read that and other facts in the UNs report.
Simply put the vegan diet eats low on the food chain and so causes the least amount of destruction and pulltion and cruelty.
(not possibvle to be 100% cruelty free but it is worth tryying, since i have been vegan i have been much 'lighter' in myself)
MidniteForestAngel 2 years ago 2
if u eat meat u actually kill more plants than if u are vegan.
Because many more plants must be fed to the animal you kill. Than if u just ate the plants directly.
Look up anything to dowith the environmental impact of meat on google. Livestocks long shadow is a report form the UN on the destruction livestock/meat is causing teh planet.
MidniteForestAngel 2 years ago 3
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As the most unstable element for Tibet and representative of serf owners, the Dalai Lama is not qualified for talking about human rights
"There is no historical evidence or present ground for the so called 'Greater Tibet' and 'high degree of autonomy', which are also against the will of the Tibetan people," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region, told a press conference on sideline with the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC).
goldenkey007 2 years ago
What is the Sutra recitation here in the backgroung music?
exclamation3mark 2 years ago
you don't 'need' meat. that is a value of understanding that only human beings have. BUT, you can't just 'be' vegetarian... you have to be much more aware of what is going into your body and know that you are getting proper nutrition. this goes for a omnivorous diet as well, though. your body requires amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients that are easily found in vegetarian diet.
megamandroid 2 years ago
I have read that the Dalai Lama eats meat. Apparently his doctors have advised him to do so for health reasons. There's info about this on the web. I stopped eating meat for long periods of time, experiemented with raw foods diet, breatharianism, etc. Then I got sick. I had chronic fatigue for three years. A nutritionist told me my body needed meat. I began eating meat again and very slowly recovered my strength. This has been a confusing issue for me.
makemerry 2 years ago
I think you need to have a health body, so you should eat a diet suitable to your lifestyle and up bringing. Where possible eat vegetarian and when eating meat just say some quick prayers for the animals you eat and show appreciation. maybe do this all the time? In the end an ethicak descision may not be black and white, we just try our best. I hope this helps
hearer87 2 years ago
thanks hearer87. that's a good and thoughtful answer. i notice as i explore this topic on the web, that some vegetarian sites are taking the kind of approach you take. small steps are better than nothing. eating with appreciation and consciousness is a good start. perhaps once a few steps are taken, others will open up.
makemerry 2 years ago
dude ive been vegan for about 5 years and ive never felt better, i had to change the way i eat thu and get good quality food or take a vitamin pill. I would be 20kg heaveier if i wasnt vegan too.
Seriously read the Amercian Dieticans association position paper on vege diets,
they say it is perfectly healthy for all people and that it is even used to treat diseases such as diabetes 2, heart disease and can prevent these and certain types of cancer, hypertension etc.
MidniteForestAngel 2 years ago 2
love this video, thanks!
ananya7ananya 3 years ago
I sooo love and adore the sweet and smart Dalai Lama!!!! this is a wonderful Video...thank you for making it !!
:-)
ANIMALKISSING 3 years ago
Blind faith to a political monk who is not just a hypocrite, but acts differently to his own teaching and the Buddha's teaching!
wonwondondon 2 years ago
very nice thank you, people don't realize that wars are a direct reaction to animal slaughter,abortions and other forms of cruelty to any living entity,they only see the so called material reasons for action and conflict and not the subtle causes triggered of by their actions
devarsi 3 years ago
What is the name of this beautiful song and who is it by?
AfricanPrince 3 years ago
It's Peter Kater's song. And the name is "Ocean of Long Life". :)
JakubNo 3 years ago
Several studies have been conducted wiring plants up to polygraph machines, they react when a person harms another plant in their presence or if they have done it prior to entering the room. In other words, it appears they are capable of monitoring intent! In addition, it's recently been discovered that they chemically communicate to protect other plant forms from harm, e.g. marauding caterpillars, giving other plants the opportunity to produce chemical repellents. Say thank you when you munch!
kittencartman 3 years ago
Even if this is true, it doesn't change the main reason for vegetarianism/veganism. We have to eat something to survive and eating plants means less suffering, even if no suffering at all is impossible. Remember, then you have to use (more or less) 10g of plant protein in order to get 1g of animal protein.
JakubNo 3 years ago
I read some of those studies too. I am personally going through the process of considering becoming a vegetarian. But if i do it, i want it to be as sincere as possible and be convinced of my reasons. One question: if 10g of plant protein = 1g of animal protein, doesn't this mean that more plants than animals have to be killed in order to reach the body requirements?, and if that so, how can it be that "eating plants means less suffering", if suffering (at least in this case)can not be measured
giventofly9 3 years ago
Our body doesn't really have different requirements regarding animal and plant protein; plant proteins are just fine. Unfortunately, there is a lot of mythology regarding proteins in our societies. In fact, it would be quite hard to think out a sufficient calorie, whole-food diet that leads to protein deficiency. I recommend the book "The China Study"; it will change your life. :-) Or if you interested, you can google "Brief History of Protein, McDougall" to find an article about this subject.
Baratgab 3 years ago
protein is broken down into amino acids, and animal protein doesn't always have a 12 essential amino acids. animal protien also doesn't break down in the body nearly as easily as protein found in beans or nuts. the point is you can easily get just as many amino acids from vegetarian foods as meat products.
megamandroid 2 years ago
beautifully done.
x
Gypsy085 3 years ago
nice vid
zipitforme 3 years ago
Such a beautiful video, Iabsolutely loved it almost brought a tear to my eye. Thanks for posting. :)
chiliZtaSteGoOD 3 years ago
that is great. just to listen to, and the visual is an added bonus
virginglee 3 years ago
nice video :)
alex6eco 3 years ago
plants do not feel pain as mammals do.
cafeaulait69 3 years ago
Technically plants are living-being and in fact it's been proven that they do actually feel pain.
So in the end, it's a very cruel world. Unfortunately something must die so we can
live.
Although, I think in the long run, the vegetatirian life style is still healthier.
Gettinghitonattheban 3 years ago
Can you sight your source on it bein proven, I would be very interested to see that,
it was my understanding that Plants lack sense organs, and lack nervous systems to process signals from sense organs.
Gypsy085 3 years ago
Google anything about the study of plant Neurobiology
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magnietuit 3 years ago
(contnd from below)It is impossible for one being to live without the death of another, this is the nature of maya even if you think youre somehow free from any responsibility because you dont eat meat if you live in a house, millions of creatures living in the soil before would have died and lost their homes for you if you wear leather shoes an animal has been slaughtered if you eat vegetables there would have been creatures who lost their homes and their lives for you among the roots and soil.
cameltheif 3 years ago
The one thing i cant get my head around is in having compassion for all living things why is it then ok to kill vegetables and plants but not animals? Are animals are more special than plants and you dont need to have compassion for them because they dont make a sound when they're being slaughtered? I dont buy it.
cameltheif 3 years ago
this is just an excuse meateaters use, they claim plants feel pain so they can feel better about eating meat, it is obvious they do not possess the physiology to feel pain anywhere near the scale of animals.
cafeaulait69 3 years ago
Well, I don't know where you got the information that plants do feel pain, because that's an article I would read. Anyways, eating meat is bad because it takes so much from the earth, it brings pollution and for all the grain fed to future slaughtered animals, we could feed poor countries. Also, in most of the cases you don't eat a plant itself, you eat the fruits of a plant or tree. I think it's a poor excuse. The only really dead things we could eat then, are sand, stones and water.
Foundlilly11 3 years ago 2
cameltheif,Would you rather skin your cat or mow your lawn? Plants lack sense organs, and lack nervous systems to process signals from sense organs is my understanding. so do you live of air? or o