If you cannot be a vegetarian yet,
please abstain from eating the highly conscious animals. Use animals of the lowest consciousness and do not eat too much. That is how we can help our lovely Earth lessen the Karma of killing.
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A guy was raising his arm, and a woman was shivering with fear. Suddenly, a hand from somewhere captured the man's arm tightly and prevented the woman from being hit. The guy violently tried to take his arm back, but the stranger's hand was too strong for him to pull his arm away. The guy tried to hit the stranger, but failed to do so as the stranger gripped hard on the guy's hand as he skillfully dodged the strike.
People eventually gathered in a crowd to watch the fighting. A while later, someone reported the fighting to the local police. It was only until the police arrived that the stranger finally let go of the man's hand.
The stranger who stopped the physical abuse was Mr. Hai. He lived in the meditating hall across from the incident site. He was walking when he suddenly witnessed the abuse, and immediately sprung to action. His friend named Vi was walking with him to the hall and said:
"You are skilled in martial arts, but nobody knows about that. How can you be so strong when your meals are so frugal?"
"I don't mean to have frugal meals, friend. I intend to have reasonable meals."
"What's this about reasonable meals? I have never heard of this concept before."
Mr. Hai said:
"It's a long story. At first, I saw people enjoying big and delicious meals. Then, they got seriously ill. I supposed they ate more than their bodies needed. The superfluity accumulated over time and made them sick."
"Since then, I've tried to eat just enough for my body's needs. Every day, I observe the state of my body and compare it with the food I eat, then note it in a handbook. After a year of comparing my body's health with my daily food, I finally found the best consumption level for my body. During that entire year, I had to reduce my meals for a few days, then increase, then decrease. Finally, I found a diet plan that works for my body."
Mr. Vi asked:
"Do you intend to be vegetarian?"
"No. I don't. I think that many people are naturally healthy. They're healthy though they're vegetarians. Those people should be vegetarians to avoid engaging in the slaughtering of animals. It's just karma. The supply chain of meat or fish must come from killing animals. We are implicitly cruel when we eat meat or fish, yet purposefully avoid imagining the cruel slaughter of animals. Only when we consume food that does not originate from killing will we be at ease."
"However, others who are not as healthy may need animal protein to stay healthy. Specifically, labor workers or brain workers can easily get sick when they lack nutrition. In this case, they can consume milk or unfertilized eggs as a source of animal protein."
"Still, some people will get liver disease from over consumption of eggs. Or they get atherosclerosis from drinking milk constantly. They need to eat meat instead. This problem results in a serious argument about morality. One may argue that supplementing protein by eating meat is the same as slaughtering, which people have always done since the beginning of mankind."
"In this case, I advise them not to eat meat from animals with high consciousness such as cows, buffaloes, pigs, dogs, or goats. If we eat those meats, we make our karma worse and get serious diseases. Chickens, ducks, fish, and shrimps have lower consciousness. However, we should feel less guilt by eating snails, shells, and tiny shrimps. They have the simplest consciousness."
"Many students far from home must study very hard, yet their meals don't have enough protein at all. I feel pity for them. It will be better if they have some more eggs or boiled snails. Poor workers also have to work really hard, but cannot afford a healthy diet. If they have big mud pots at their rented houses to feed snails in, they can improve their meals."
"Thanks to practicing Qi-gong, my health is good though my meals are frugal. However, sometimes, I still need milk and eggs for nutrition, and a bit of fish oil to support my liver."
Mr. Vi said:
"What you mentioned sounds reasonable. But, why shouldn't we eat the meat of animals that have a high consciousness?"
"My friend, people in the world all agree that eating people's meat is extremely cruel. Why? It's because we are the most intelligent, with the highest consciousness and the deepest affection. Human conscience naturally understands that."
"Therefore, if we eat other animal meats, it seems we are less evil. But we remain evil. Eating animals of the lowest consciousness such as snails, mussels, or tiny shrimps, makes us the least evil. But, we still can get sick if we eat too much."
Every day in the world, countless animals are killed painfully to serve as our food. The killings are accumulated day in and day out. The Karma of killing continues to weigh heavily on this planet.
If you cannot be a vegetarian yet, please abstain from eating the highly conscious animals. Use animals of the lowest consciousness and do not eat too much. That is how we can help our lovely Earth lessen the Karma of killing.
Written by:
Janna
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