Guest guest Posted November 28, 1999 Report Share Posted November 28, 1999 At 10:27 AM 11/28/99 -0500, you wrote: >Antoine <carrea > >Matt Lillie wrote: > >> to whom it may concern, >> sorry, i didn't make the question clear. i didn't mean "if you made your >> living raising and slaughtering animals, would you eat meat" ... what i >> meant to ask was "if you had to slaughter an animal yourself before you ate >> it, would you still eat meat?" >> >> matt L > >Hello Matt L, > >I do find that the fruits and vegetables that i grow in my garden to >have more taste than the ones i buy in the super market. Maybe its >because i fell in love with my garden. Same goes for meat or any >substance that i come to eat or drink. The closer the human contact in >love and compassion between the substance i will take, in all its chain >from birth to death, the better the food will taste to my mouth. > >I have a flower plant at home that has been loosing a few leaves a day, >and an aunt that is dying from cancer. And sometimes it makes me feel >real strange, that the plant dying makes me as sad as my aunt dying. I >do love deeply and equally all forms of life. And this equal part i do >sometimes find strange. Each time i breath i slaughter something and >something is created, I just find this process my greatest lesson in >living. > >Antoine Thank you for passing on this lesson, Antoine. Your compassion reminds me of the universe and the birth of the universe. Is not breath the beginning of the universe and of life itself? I bring forth universes. A million suns are born. Each sun is born to die. As each sun goes nova, it takes with it a solar system. I hear the sounds of the myriads of creatures that are born, that live, that die. I bring the rain, the wind, the storm, the calm. I bring the earthquake, the virus, the poisonous insect. I bring the calm sea, the child, the fruit on the tree. What I have brought, in every case, is never other than myself. As I watch each transformation, I watch myself. As each departs and gives way to the next, I bid goodbye to myself. In the calm stillness that I know as who I am, where there is neither "me" nor "it", in this freedom that is eternity, no questions arise, no doubts obtain, nothing to be done. Shalom, Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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