I'm told I'm not realised so here is the Buddha et al,

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Namaste All,

 

" Do not butcher the ox that ploughs thy fields, and do not indulge a

voracity that involves the slaughter of animals.'...Gautama

The first of Buddhism's ten precepts is: ' refrain from destroying

life.'

 

The Bible says: ' He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man. Isaiah

66:3

 

'Thou shalt not kill.' original Hebrew is 'lo tirtzach', which is a

general term for killing not a term for human murder.

 

With regard to Jesus eating meat, in the New Testament; the word

translated as meat is the greek 'phago, trophe, brome,' which only

mean food or eating. The greek for flesh or meat is actually kreas.

 

Apart from this Jesus was an Essene and the 'last supper', was the

normal ceremonial meal or agape. The Essenes in the main did not drink

alcohol but a grape juice or must. Jesus also spent many years in

India and Tibet, Leh.

 

It is almost a given that any Yogic Teacher in the Vedantic fashion

teaches vegetarianism.

 

Ok Lets get back to my original point that eating meat indicates a

lock of awareness, and a purified awareness sheath is necessary for

Moksha, otherwise karmas will prevent it.

 

I became a vege after starting meditation, by myself.

Within six months I had given up alcohol, to which I had been

dependent most of my life, and soon after I gave up eating meat, due

to a feeling that it was somehow immoral to kill and eat animals for

food.

I was in no club or anything it was all practice at home. I later

found after working my way through Native American, Chinese, and

finally the Vedanta that it was taught in there.

 

Intellectualising is just spiritual materialism, a thought is

material. Compassion is necessary for how can one claim all is one and

then kill and torture oneself---the animal.

 

Om Namah Sivaya.....Tony