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I love all living things, especially animals and plants. They are so kind and loving and remind me of our true inner-nature.

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Ahhh cute! Cows love music. Who wants to try this? Anyone love animals as well as music and want to try this?

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4 hours ago, Key Elements said:

Ahhh cute! Cows love music.

   It is not reason enough to call the cow our mother because we (Indians) are an agricultural community and the cow has great use and importance for us. And we don't turn every utilitarian object into our mother. There is no reason to do so. Never and nowhere has an object of utility been called mother, despite the fact that there are any number of things that have utility. And there is no relationship between motherhood and utility.

   Cow is man's mother exactly in the same way as the monkey, according to Darwin, happens to be his father. And I have good reasons to say it. Further, most of these reasons are based on the findings of psychic research into man's memory of his past lives, called jati-smaran in Buddhist terminology. Thousands of yogis down the centuries have explored and recalled the memories of their past lives and have found retrospectively that as soon as the chain of their human lives comes to an end, the life of the cow begins.

  If you go back into your past lives -- and there are tested methods to do it -- you will find that for many lives you were a human being. but as soon as the series of human lives ends, you will enter the life of the cow that you were. Everyone who experimented with jati-smaran has come to the same conclusion: behind the layers of memory of human lives lies the layer belonging to the life of a cow. And it is on this basis that the cow has been described as man's mother.

  Apart from this, there are other reasons to say so. If you explore the whole animal world you will note that no other animal has such a developed soul as the cow. Looking into the eyes of a cow you will find a kind of humanly quality, a humanness no other animal has. The innocence, the simplicity, the humility of a cow is rare. Spiritually, the cow is the most evolved being in the whole animal world; its high qualities of soul are evident. Its evolved state clearly indicates it is ready for a spiritual leap forward.

  If you watch the physical restlessness in which a monkey lives, it will be obvious to you that it is not going to rest until it achieves a higher form of body. The monkey seems to be utterly dissatisfied with his body; in fact, he is dissatisfied with everything about it. It is so agile, speedy and restless all the time. Looking at a newborn child, you will find, while his body has the agility of a monkey, his eyes have the peace and serenity of a cow. Physically he reminds one of a monkey, and spiritually he resembles a cow.

  The cow is held in deep respect in this country not because we (Indians) are predominantly an agricultural society, it is so because after protracted investigations in the psychic world, it was learned that man has spiritually evolved from the cow. And as psychic knowledge grows -- and it is growing -- it will soon support this truth that India discovered long ago about the cow.

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1 minute ago, My_Name_Is_Mud said:

And now I'm hungry, and craving a good burger.

Kill a cow yourself, look at cow's eyes while killing, then only you will feel the real taste of cow.

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On 4/9/2017 at 0:07 AM, jse said:

All strays, from left to right:
Simba (10y), Piggy (10y), Jade (8y), Lena (9y), Lilly (rip), Lucky (rip).

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So the dog in your pic is Lena ?

Beautiful dogs all of them. 


  1. Only ONE path is true. Rest is noise
  2. God is beauty, rest is Ugly 

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@Key Elements  you know plants love to  listen to music and they even respond to it. 

 

 

 


  1. Only ONE path is true. Rest is noise
  2. God is beauty, rest is Ugly 

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50 minutes ago, Loreena said:

@Key Elements  you know plants love to  listen to music and they even respond to it. 

 

 

 

2:08 I hope they didn't just do this experiment once and come to this conclusion.

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58 minutes ago, My_Name_Is_Mud said:

Our teeth and stomachs have evolved to chew and digest meat

I agree ! 

A friend came to a cannibal and the food was prepared and the friend had never tasted anything like it. He had never even dreamed that food could be so tasty, so delicious. When he was leaving he said to the cannibal, “I loved the food. I have never loved food so much. When I come next, prepare the same dishes.”
And the cannibal said, “That is difficult, because I only had one mother.”

@My_Name_Is_Mud

I am not saying that there is something wrong in non-vegetarianism, or it makes you nonspiritual. But the lighter the food, the deeper goes the meditation. I am not saying that meditation is impossible for a non-vegetarian -- it is not impossible, but it is unnecessarily difficult. It is like a man who is going to climb a mountain, and he goes on carrying many rocks. It is possible that even when you are carrying rocks you may reach to the mountain peak, but it creates unnecessary trouble. You could have thrown those rocks, you could have unburdened yourself, and the climb would have been easier, far more pleasant. 

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20 minutes ago, My_Name_Is_Mud said:

he never said anything about it making his path more difficult

Difficult Situation For Buddha, cunning mind of man

One day a Buddhist monk came with a very puzzled look. He said to Buddha, ”I am in a strange difficulty. A bird flying dropped a piece of meat into my begging bowl. I was coming back from begging in the city, to settle under some tree” – in the garden where they were staying – ”to eat my food. Now the problem is, if I throw out this piece of meat I am going against your teaching that, ‘Everything has to be eaten that falls into your begging bowl.’ And if I eat it, I am still going against your teaching of, ‘Always be vegetarian.’ Now what am I supposed to do?”

The whole assembly of monks also were in a strange position: how is Buddha going to solve it?

Buddha thought, ”If I say ‘throw it’, that will become a universal thing. People will start choosing: whatever is good, delicious they will eat and the remaining they will throw out. The country supports the monks. This will be against the people who are supporting you. With great hardship they earn, and you throw away their food. So I cannot say to throw it out.

”And as far as birds are concerned, it is very unlikely that again, in the centuries following, any bird will repeat this. So there is no danger, if only one person eats on one day a small piece of meat.”

He said, ”Eat everything that has fallen into your begging bowl.”

And this became for the cunning mind of man a loophole, that, ”Buddha is not against meat; just you have not to kill, he is against killing. If meat is given to you, offered to you, you have to respectfully receive it.”

So now in China and Japan, all the Buddhists are non-vegetarian. And in many food shop, restaurant they make it clear that here non-vegetarian food is available which has not been especially killed – it is from animals dying on their own. Now, so many animals don’t die on their own.

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3 minutes ago, My_Name_Is_Mud said:

The point I was questioning was your assertion that eating meat makes the "path" more difficult.

It was a misinterpretation that Buddha was not against meat , and he was against killing animals only, and this became a loophole. I and not saying that all meditators should become vegetarians to begin a spiritual journey. If you meditate long enough, deep enough , if you become more meditative you will become more and more vegetarian automatically.

Your clothes change automatically; by and by you like looser and looser clothes. The more relaxed you are inside – loose clothes. But the inner change is the first thing and everything else is just a consequence.

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@Prabhaker I second that, ever since I started to meditate I have less and less apetite for meat and dairy. I have no real explanation for it, and never made a decision to give up on it. My tastes simply changed slowly but surely.

 

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On 13/04/2017 at 7:52 AM, Prabhaker said:

So now in China and Japan, all the Buddhists are non-vegetarian. And in many food shop, restaurant they make it clear that here non-vegetarian food is available which has not been especially killed – it is from animals dying on their own. Now, so many animals don’t die on their own.

At 5:48 of the clip below, the cook is making a vegetarian diet for the Shaolin monks (China). Not everyone is non-veg.

 

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1 hour ago, My_Name_Is_Mud said:

 Buddhists in Nepal dress warmly with the orange robe on the outside of their more snuggly-fitting warmer clothing.

When was born in Nepal but after he left his kingdom for a spiritual journey, he lived mainly in India (Bihar state). After enlightenment he was spreading his message in Bihar , he was arguing with Brahmins , do you conceive that a non-vegetarian can do that. You are not familiar with culture of India. I am never said that meat  is good or bad for heath. Neither I said a non-vegetarian can't grow into a  meditator , I only mentioned that it becomes easier to reach deeper levels of meditation , if you are vegetarian. 

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