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[santmat]

Vegetarianism, Veganism, and the Path of the Masters - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

Traditionally, Sant Mat and the yoga philosophy have advocated the lacto-vegetarian diet: abstinence from meat, fish, fowl, and eggs, but allowed dairy. Vegan means complete abstinence from all animal products and strictly adhering to a plant-based diet: no dairy, eggs, or meat of any kind, or products made from animals. Based on the current cruel practices of the dairy industry in India and around the world that violate the principle of ahimsa or non-violence, plus all the scores of medical studies showing that dairy consumption adversely affects our health and well-being, I believe if they were here today, the classic Saints such as Mahavira, Guru Kabir, Guru Nanak, Tukarama, Ravidas, Tulsi Das, Namdev, Dariya Sahib, etc...  would not only be advocating a vegetarian diet, but a vegan diet. These days, many are making this transition to vegan, including a growing percentage of those following Sant Mat. This is the compassionate direction that the vegetarian movement is headed in. Vegetarianism is going vegan!

In the East as well as in the West, the Gnostics and other advanced mystics: those serious practitioners of soul travel, inner Light and Sound meditation, have universally adhered to a plant-based diet. It’s hard to reach more subtle states of tranquility in meditation on an animal flesh diet based on the suffering of other beings. "A man of spiritual intensity does not eat corpses." (George Bernard Shaw)

Today a satsang edition of Spiritual Awakening Radio about the spiritual and ethical reasons for going veg, or better still: vegan. There are readings from Pythagoras, Kabir, Swami Sant Sevi Ji Maharaj, Darshan Singh, Kirpal Singh, Sawan Singh, Diet and Spirituality, by Dona Kelley (from Lotus Leaves), and... a document called, "My Visit to a Dairy Farm -- The Reality of Dairy Cruelty -- the Final Destination of Dairy Cows is the Slaughterhouse", published by Pravin K. Shah of the Jaina Education Committee of Jainism (the Vegan Jain movement.)

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[simply-buddhism]

[veganpsychedelephant]

Vegan food is soul food in its truest form.

Peace begins on your plate.

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These buffaloes you see are part of a group of 1,000 buffaloes that were abandoned on a farm in Brazil two years ago, in a calamitous siituation. After a long and protracted judicial battle, the animal rights organization Aras won their permanent custody but needs to remove it from the original farm to a couple of sanctuaries where they will have their forever homes. Transportation is expensive and they need your help. If you can send a donation, one of the sanctuaries has a PayPal account, you can get more info here

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Yamas

5 Vows of the Seeker:

⁜ Ahimsa - non-violence ⁜ Satya - truthfulness ⁜ Asteya - non-stealing ⁜ Brahmacharya - pure conduct ⁜ Aparigraha - non-attachment

[morethansalad]

This is my Ex-Abolitionist Story (Ex-Vegan Parody)

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[sidewalkchemistry]

"The Japanese word Mottanai is used to express regret over a resource or possession being wasted. It loosely translates to “What a waste”, and describes an attitude of trying to avoid being wasteful as much as we can. It is rooted in Japanese Buddhist philosophy that holds that we should respect and feel great gratitude towards our world and all the resources it gives us. Some people say it also has connections to the Shinto belief that objects have souls and therefore should be treated with respect. And the best way to show respect is by not wasting them.

Besides being a spiritual idea, Mottainai has clear practical implications as well. From not leaving even a single grain of rice in a plate, using all parts of an animal or vegetable for cooking, repairing clothes instead of buying new ones, repurposing and upcycling old objects and giving them new life to keep using older technology while they still function instead of upgrading, there are a million ways we can do to ensure we are using resources as efficiently as possible."

{Mottainai: An Eco-Conscious Japanese Lifestyle Concept}

[santmat]

The Vegetarian Christians of Early Christianity - Spiritual Awakening Radio Podcast

One thing that might be rather surprising to most people that can be learned by doing a study of the gospels, acts and other literature of the Hebrew Christians -- the Ebionites -- the Christianity that Existed Before Paul -- is that, rather than some imagined Sunday school notion of a fish market in the village of Galilee being operated by the disciples of Jesus, there is significant evidence that the Original Jesus Movement and well-known apostles became vegetarians. And furthermore, this vegetarianism of the disciples and Jesus Movement is fairly widely known and mentioned by the early church fathers. It's not that this information is coming from recently discovered writings dug up in the Middle East. Rather, these are old texts that have been with us since the early days of Christianity but didn't seem all that meaningful and significant to a pro-meat carnistic population. Vegetarians however would indeed be most interested finding this out! (Peace be to you)

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"Jacobus [James], the brother of Jesus, lived of seeds and vegetables and did not accept meat or wine." (Saint Augustine)

"The consumption of animal flesh was unknown up until the great flood. But since the great flood, we have had animal flesh stuffed into our mouths. Jesus, the Christ, who appeared when the time was fulfilled, again joined the end to the beginning, so that we are now no longer allowed to eat animal flesh." (pro-vegetarian early church father Hieronymus [St. Jerome] who apparently read the Gospel of the Hebrews and was influenced by Ebionite views)

"Sacrifices were invented by men to be a pretext for eating flesh." (Clement of Alexandria)

"The steam of meat meals darkens the spirit. One can hardly have virtue if one enjoys meat meals and feasts. In the earthly paradise [Eden], no one sacrificed animals, and no one ate meat." (Saint Basil the Great)

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[ksmaggie]

Earlier in 2022, I did some volunteer work for the documentary, Land of Ahimsa. I drew the lineless vector illustrations of Lord Krishna. The artstyle is very different from the art I normally post online. The documentary is about the treatment of animals in India. I hope people will give it a watch. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to see it. It means a lot to me!

The team behind the documentary have been touring around India, and screened it in various colleges. You can read a bit bout the tour on their Instagram. So far the documentary has won the Hong Kong World Film Festival for Best Documentary (Award of Merit). : )

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Listening to this song isnt enough I need to inject it directly into my veins

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Buddhism 499: Pacifism is not passivism...

Buddhism 499: Pacifism is not passivism…

This is one of the hardest lessons of Buddhism, balancing the dual extremes of not only luxury and lack, the Middle Path of Theravada Buddhism, but action and inaction, and ultimately existence and non-existence, the Middle Path of Mahayana. Given the truth that the source of much of our discontent is not to be found in the ‘outside’ world, but right in our own minds, the obvious temptation is to…

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