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The Spirit Of Sharing Spoken
By Supreme Master Ching Hai, San
Jose Vegetarian House, CA, USA |
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This
world doesn't belong to us. It does, but many people don't share. They don't
like to share. Actually this world belongs to everyone including the animals.
That's why we follow the vegetarian policy. This world came into existence due
to the force of the thinking power of all the beings that exist on this planet.
We wanted this place, so it exists, including the animals. But when we came
into this world, we thought it belonged to us. Everyone thought it belonged
to them. Therefore, we started to get rid of the others - the red, the black,
the yellow and whatever. The red wanted to get rid of the white. The white got
rid of the black, et cetera. Then the black, white and yellow got rid of the
animals, et cetera. We have forgotten that we are co-owners, not the sole owners
of this world.
That is why we should
not kill animals, we should not eat them. Of course, especially, we should not
kill any other human beings. But in the name of politics, national love or religion,
sometimes, we kill. We justify our killing with many glorious excuses. Actually,
this is not the right thing, because we kill today and then the next life we'll
be killed.
Therefore, war always
continues within our world. Then we always wonder "why." There is
nothing to wonder. When we sow something, we reap the fruit thereof. Even the
Bible says so: As you sow, so shall you reap. For those of us who have not suffered
effects under war or any other conflicts, that means we have not sown the seed
of violence. So if we continue to keep it that way, even if we do not practice
any meditation, even if we do not worship God - I mean officially, registered-wise
-- then we will be born again as safe, secure, healthy human beings. Because
we do not have the seed of damage, of war, of violence. If we can remind each
other not to kill animals, then of course how could we kill human beings, and
war will eliminate itself from the root.
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