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 20200320少欲齋戒淨乾坤Cherishing All Life by Going Vegetarian

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20200320少欲齋戒淨乾坤Cherishing All Life by Going Vegetarian

Rainfall distributions have become very uneven. As the four seasons do not alternate regularly, some places have suffered water shortage, while others have been affected by floods. All this is due to the greenhouse effect. Weather patterns have become very erratic and climate change is affecting the entire world.

Indeed, earthquake, flood, wildfires, and storms will devastate the environment, claim lives, and destroy resources. When Nature’s elements are in balance, we will be blessed with abundant crops. We cannot do without natural resources. Yes, if Nature’s elements become imbalanced, disaster will occur.

What leads to the imbalance of Nature’s elements? Our greed. Led by our ignorance and afflictions, we humans have sown such bad karma. Our greed has also led to the creation of much bad karma. Many people crave the taste of the meat and consume all kinds of animals the way the strong dominates over the weak.

Aren’t animals all sentient beings? We humans have consumed countless animals in the world. Haven’t we sown such bad karma as a result? We have, indeed. Due to many people’s desire for meat, countless animals have been killed. In truth, many natural and manmade disasters are caused by human activities.

If everything in the world can coexist in harmony and if we can live peacefully with all beings, the world will be beautiful. If we encourage everyone to interact with mutual love, there will be peace and happiness in every family. So, we must protect animals and not kill them for meat.

Some people world say: “Animals are born to be consumed by humans.” Such a statement is ungrounded. Livestock farmers have bred a lot of chickens and ducks. They breed such livestock ceaselessly. To raise more, they even stimulate egg laying.

Now, artificial incubation has replaced natural incubation to ensure high productivity. Think about it. The problem isn’t that there will be too many animals if we do not eat them. The problem is that people keep breeding animals, so there are more and more of them.

If we raise more animals, we must allocate more grains to feed them. Just think, for sheep, cattle, horses that are raised for meat, how much grass do they consume in each single day? As they are raised on grazing lands, many land have been deforested and turned into grazing ones.

If we raise chickens or ducks, we must feed them with grains that world otherwise be supplied to people. If we can stop breeding animals in an unnatural way and let them live freely in the wild, they will instinctively forage for food. This way, we don’t need to allocate a lot of grains to feed them.

Also, livestock excrete much body waste, thereby polluting land and water. It will be hard for us to acquire water to drink if water and land are polluted by animal waste. This is indeed a vicious cycle. To eat meat, we must raise animals with a lot of grains.

Many grains that are for people to eat are used to feed the animals. On top of that, animals waste also pollutes the land, so we may not be able to grow crops. We cannot acquire water to drink, either, for water sources have also been polluted. In our diet alone, we truly can find many life’s truths.

Everyone, please do not think that I’ve spoken of our greed too often. In truth, living in this world, many of us do not notice how we’ve created bad karma in our daily living. We must abstain from eating meat as diseases come from what we eat.

During the SARS outbreak, everyone was afraid. Yet, being afraid doesn’t help all. So, I called on everyone to be vigilant, abstain from eating meat, and go vegetarian. A vegetarian diet is very health. By eating vegetarian, we can have a sharp mind and a healthy body.

This is why I say a vegetarian diet is healthy. Also, of more people go vegetarian there will be less bad karma from killing. When people raise more animals to kill for meat, a vicious cycle is created.

Monastic practitioners practice vegetarianism. And lay practitioners should also do the same. By respecting and loving all life. By practicing vegetarianism, we can nurture a compassionate and loving heart. As we cannot bear to eat animals, we are nurturing love and gentleness within. Those who eat meat lose their temper easily.

So, if we adopt a vegetarian diet, we can have a mild temper. Cattle are herbivorous. See how mild they are. Tigers are carnivorous and are very ferocious. As cattle eat plants, they also have great strength. So, a vegetarian diet is only beneficial to our health. It can also clean up land, make water clean, and help climate conditions to be balanced again.
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