The Dalai Lama talks Turkey

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, Sam <S.Pasiencier@p...> wrote:

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> Tony OClery

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> Thursday, November 24, 2005 7:56 PM

> Re: The Dalai Lama talks

Turkey

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> , "Era" <n0ndual@w...>

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> > ...no one gets to come to the Thanksgiving table looking

> condescendingly at anyone else.

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> Namaste,

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> To me the DaLai Lama is a great political and religious leader,

the

> fact he eats meat precludes me from supposing he is an

enlightened

> being...Tony.

> Totally silly

 

As Dr. Albert Schweitzer tells us:

 

"I cannot but have reverence for all that is called life. I cannot

avoid compassion for everything that is called life. That is the

beginning of morality. Once a man has experienced it and continues

to do so he/she is ethical. He carries morality within him/her and

can never lose it, for it continues to develop within him. He who

has never experienced this has only a set of superficial principles.

 

These theories have no root in him, they do not belong to him, and

they fall off him......Reverence for life comprises the whole ethic

of love in its deepest and highest sense. It is the source of

constant renewal for the individual and for mankind.(Respect for

life is compassion, which is a prerequisite for understanding.)

 

(Schweitzer pp 116-177) (1)

 

Ghandiji said; "Cow protection is to me one of the most wonderful

phenomena in human evolution. It takes the human being beyond his

species. The cow to me means the entire subhuman world. Man through

the cow is enjoined to realise his identity with all that

lives...She is the mother to millions of Indian (and others),

mankind.

 

 

 

We should cultivate certain desirable practices. For instance we

should regulate our diet, because one's food influences one's

thoughts. Eating animal food promotes animal tendencies. Those who

take to the spiritual path should avoid as much as possible bad

practices. There is no meaning in professing to respect human values

without observing the rule that you should cause NO HARM to others

in any form whatsoever."