Features on Environmental Protection

Spoken by Supreme Master Ching Hai,
Sydney, Australia, March 16, 1993 (Originally in English)

Q: If Allah, Buddha or Jesus were alive today, would they be Greenies? A Greenie is someone who is environmentally conscious.

M: Partially, perhaps, yes. We should protect the Earth's greenery as much as possible for our own benefit. But we should not become nature worshippers, whereby every tree is worth more than a human being. Trees are for human beings. So in case we need them, we should preserve them as much as our space, time and the population allow.

In that case, probably Jesus, and Allah, whoever, would vote for that. I am also a nature preserver myself, and all our practitioners are not allowed to cut trees unnecessarily. We had better see to the situation: where we should preserve and when, and how much.

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