Guest guest Posted July 16, 2001 Report Share Posted July 16, 2001 edmonds > Italian priest about Mother Nature: > Someone slashed my tire this morning.. but he did me a favor.. > I had an hour to sit in the car before > the tire store opened.. and so dipped > into a book in the car by Fr. Mario Mazzoleni, > published by Leela Press of Faber Virginia, USA > about his encounter with the East. When he > decided to visit an ashram, "I tested myself > before going and decided in one moment to stop > eating meat." He went on to say that this > decision helped greatly with a kidney problem > he had been having. "I knew from my studies in > parapsychology that the violence and death stress > connected with the slaughter of animals are not > mere hypotheses, but verifiable facts that > have a precise influence on the life of anyone > implicated by them. In sum, by eating the animal > one assimilates > her history, her > fears, her stresses, her rebellion against death, > her desires > and passions." > > > from Rome to Puttaparthi: > > Fr Mario Mazzoleni on the ethics of diet .. part II > > (after 3 years as a strict vegetarian, Fr. Mario Mazzoleni > speaks of a desire for meat.) > > I would be a hypocrite if I led the reader to believe that I was > strong enough to be perfectly faithful to my Lenten resolution. > There > was a time when I started to meditate with the Transcendental > Meditation technique. The TM instructors assured me that being a > vegetarian was a stress I still needed to overcome, and that's why > the > problem of eating meat kept surfacing in my mind. I hadn't yet > completely > resolved my desire for meat - they told me- and so the repressed > desire was floating to the surface. It is a fact that the minute > I would sit down to meditate, the most succulent meals would pass > in > front of my mind, full of fragrant roasted chickens and various > sausages. What to do? If I was going to ruin all my meditations > for a roast chicken, it would be better to eliminate the problem > by facing it head on. And so after 3 years of strict vegetarianism, > I > decided to get rid of the desire once and for all by satiating > myself > with a meat dinner. After all, I told myself to quiet my sense > of guilt, "It isn't a crime to eat meat, and I can't say that > because > I'm vegetarian I'm better than many people who are carnivorous." > > It was almost a traumatic experience. I remembered an analogous > experience of Gandhi's that he recounted in his autobiography. > Convinced by a friend that India could be liberated only by the > grit > of someone who ate meat, he hid himself on a river bank to consume > some barbecued baby goat meat, and the next night he could > feel bleating in his chest. Instead of enjoying the coveted snack > in peace, the minute this little faithbreaker set his teeth into > the cruel repast* (* a reference to Dante's Inferno.. in which > meat is described as a cruel repast in XXXIII.1) > he was himself bitten by remorse and anxiety. I kept seeing the > animal alive in front of me, and this inhibited the desire that was > so > enticing when it was simply mental. > > I immediately noticed some other effects, physical as well as > psychic. > My intestines held that food much longer than they kept vegetables, > and my sense of smell, made sensitive by several years of > vegetarianism, > was able to detect the odor of the cooked animal on my skin. It was > a disagreeable sensation. As for my psyche, I noticed that my > mind, which during my 3 year "Lent" was no longer seriously > agitated by unwanted thoughts, suffered a set back from that > carne-vale (meat festival); polluting throughts started to enter > again in triumph. It was a lesson. As always it is experience more > than words that has the greater power of persuasion. > The decision to adopt a vegetarian diet was motivated also by a > religious > factor. I knew that I was going to a sacred place. > > quoted from Don Mario Mazzoleni's book, published by Leela Press > of Faber, Virginia USA > > > > (the book is translated from the Italian by > a Notre Dame professor)(there is also > an interesting book by Jewish psychiatrist > Sam Sandweiss) > (the tire store owner told me he used to hunt > but now he films.. others told me his films > are sought after for their beauty) > --- End forwarded message --- > > > > > Aum Amriteswarayai Namaha! > > Ammachi > > > Your use of is subject to > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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