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| True Feminism She was born inside a distant cage in a free speech zone at another political event. Crammed in with a rock band, protest signs, protesters, and megaphones, no one saw her nor how she arrived. There was a small crack in the ground that was intermittently covered by dancing and rushing souls and heels. When the convention was over, there she grew in germination. Later there would be sacred life, the smallest and most fragile blossoms of the tiniest sprig of chamomile, the herbal medicine that helps digest such political repression. She is an activist with an unending voice always standing for her rights. She does not need to change the world, she is the world. She does not need to rule the Earth, she is the Earth. In one instant she is a vegan feminist atheist who will let no patriarchal God come between her and the uncountable number of children she has birthed in the tide of their own Karmic dilemmas. In another instant, she is an orthodox theist because she creates the interdependent union of all things as she sits gloriously upon her throne of stars and space. She does not seek parity with men, for to do so would mean to give up too much of her power. In another instant, she is a simple little girl singing as she skips slowly, almost dancing through a blossoming field with a wooden stick in her hand and flowers in her hair. She has healed us with her herbs, she has fought us with her wars, she has fed and clothed us, given us music and dance, she gives us light and dark and then tells us that a man did it all. She occupies distant planets, she is a deer sipping gently at a waterfall basin, she opens our hearts with another of her beautiful sunsets and yet somehow, she is busy and unreachable. She is illusion and yet she somehow is trapped partially in her own game. She is here to learn manners, kindness and to let her gentleness topple the greatest of bastion walls. She must lose her vanity because not all her makeup is vegan and some is still animal tested. She is the mountain we must climb, and when we have accomplished this task, she laughs and shows us a thousand more mountains that we must continue towards to help figure out her complexity. Despite all this, she wants more money. She feels she has earned it. She feels ignored. She wants to power share. Has she truly felt unworthiness yet in her cheap discount department store attire? She wants to rise to political power and when she finally gets it, she only finds her children and husband ignored. There is no one to make our peanut butter sandwiches, she has appointments. When she is with her lady friends, they all talk at once in high shrills at a fast pace that no man can decipher. When she is with men it is for gain. When she is with family she is a tyrant. When she is alone, she lets life continue without her even though it is her and she thinks constantly of us all. She needs discipline but she has mocked the Buddha, a role for men only, so her quest is never fulfilled. She thinks she knows everything so her family conspires behind her back. She will not rest until she is completely in charge and this is what everyone is afraid of, except the most faithful of her devotees. It makes her untrustworthy, this power grab she created, we just want her to be more peaceful and loving and polite as she erupts into another volcano. Post Date: 01/16/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| The Four Noble Truths Buddha’s central teaching is The Four Noble Truths and, according to the Buddha, it is the source and foundation for all Buddhist wisdom. The Four Noble Truths are very simple to state, but need much explanation and experience applied in real life situations to find their deep profundity. The Four Noble Truths are as follows: Suffering The Cause of Suffering The End of Suffering The Path Leading to the End of Suffering There is one big question that needs to be asked which is like a big elephant in the room, the one no one notices and everyone tries to ignore. How does this relate to the vegan lifestyle? In truth, only a vegan can teach these truths. Why? Imagine Jeffery Dahmer or Adolf Hitler teaching us how life is only suffering as they stand in front of their victims. The same is true for meat eaters and lactarians who try to teach this topic with bellies full of animal parts and animal secretions. The one writing this will have been a vegan for 17 years and vegetarian for 19 years next March. Let us start with the first precept, Suffering. All sentient beings are suffering. Children suffer as they grow, both physical growth pain as well as emotional and psychological pain of maturation. Every human that lives a long life will one day suffer sickness, old age, and death. We suffer by being separated from the ones we love and by being with the ones with whom we would prefer not to share time. We suffer from loss, uncertainty, stress, excess, anger, greed, ignorance, jealousy, fear, and many other sources. If we look at planet Earth as a singular location of this suffering and we see this entire mass of suffering from the beginning of life on Earth until now, what do you think might be the greatest source of suffering upon Earth? Some may say the Jewish Holocaust, some might say Joe Stalin or Mao Tse Tung were the greatest infliction of suffering, another might say poverty or alcohol. The truth is that the greatest source of suffering in the world today and which has always been the greatest source of suffering upon our planet is animal slaughter. Around 9 billion animals are killed in the U.S. alone each year, and about 70 billion worldwide each year. This means about 200 million animals are tortured and killed every day for food. These stats do not include hunting nor fishing, only factory farming. If we include hunting and fishing, private farming, animal experimentation, etc. the number could stand as high as 2 or 3 billion each day. THAT IS EACH DAY! All the war dead combined from every war ever fought does not exceed this amount of animal slaughter every day. Every Day! The Cause of Suffering Not practicing a vegan lifestyle is the central cause of suffering. It affects our planet’s gross aggregate of suffering as well as the greatest part of each individual’s suffering from Karma, health and consciousness. The End of Suffering Going vegan may not end all suffering, but it is the most important first step. If we all went vegan, not only would the atrocity of global animal slaughter and torture end, but we would stop burning down rain forests, stop wars in general, share resources better and have plenty of water to drink. If you want to end suffering, go vegan. Then we can talk about ending other aspects of suffering next. The Path that Leads to the End of Suffering We can only walk this path as vegans. How can one meditate correctly with angry animal spirits emanating from one’s intestines? How can one support correct view with animal blood dripping from one's mouth at dinner? The Path that Leads to the End of Suffering is a vegan path. Vegan corrected speech, thought, meditation, action, livelihood, zeal and mindfulness guide us and keep us on the correct vegan path. One must have a vegan mind and vegan consciousness to comprehend the Vegan Path that Leads to the End of Suffering. Post Date: 01/21/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Deva The word Deva has many arguable etymologies, definitions, and synonyms. I prefer the correlative nomenclature to the Hindu festival of Devali. Devali is the festival of lights and thus one may safely infer that Deva means light being. This differs from most English translations of Deva as ‘god’ and, somehow, I feel it is more true to what Hinduism proposes. If Deva does mean light being, how does that light shine? As Earth bound beings of 3D carbon chain, we are tied to the universal clock of aging. Time is understood differently in Hindu cosmology than in the West. We are currently in the Age of Kali, Krishna was in the Age of Dwapara and Rama was from the Treta Yuga. Each Age or Yuga has its own cosmology, universal laws, cultures, values, blessings, and problems. How the Deva arrive on Earth, what their purpose is, how they act, where they dwell and what they teach is subtly different in each Age. It is as though the Divine Light shines differently through each Age. The Divine Light may be constant, but the refractive nature of each Yuga changes its intensity and coloration as such, and so the different Avatars, Devas and Devis appear to manifest in accordance with the changing wheel of time. Although Krishna was well known as an avid ghee fan with many childhood stories of stealing ghee for his endless desire, and adoring milk and all milk products, this was an attribute of Dwapara Yuga. Indeed, Krishna was alive in Dwapara Yuga at the cusp of Kali Yuga’s dawning. In the Gita Krishna explicitly states in the 9th canto that one should worship him with offerings of flowers, water, fruit, or a leaf. Noticeably missing in his list of acceptable Puja tools are milk and ghee. This is because vegan offerings are the only true offerings, the best offerings, and the truest offerings. Krishna also knew that in the Kali Age people would be dedicated to materiality and would develop organic, vegan vitamin supplements of Vitamins D3 and B, allowing for vegan diets. Krishna knew his instructions would have to penetrate from Dwapara Yuga to Kali Yuga and so his instructions would have to reflect the next Age’s capacity for Puja experience. He knew the light of Maha Vishnu would shine differently in Kali Yuga and he needed to prepare the way for the people in the future by acknowledging a vegan method of connecting to him. If Krishna or Rama or Shiva were alive today, they would certainly support a vegan diet. It is the only cow friendly diet in Kali Yuga. The vegan way is the correct way of living, worshiping and eating. Vegan is how the light of the Divine shines through to all of creation from the ultra-dimensional source of life. To chant Vegan Krishna, Vegan Rama, Vegan Shiva, Vegan Lakshmi, Vegan Vishnu, Vegan Ganesh etc. is to accept Krishna’s edict in Canto 9 of the Gita. To chant this way is to accept the Divine Light of Deva in Kali Yuga. To chant this way and live this way is to reach to the highest truth in this dark Age of Kali and to find our way to the true Trimurti, the Vegan Trimurti, of Vegan Vishnu, Vegan Brahma, and Vegan Shiva. Post Date: 01/22/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Are Souls Vegan? What is a soul? This question must be answered first, before we can know what a soul does or how it is dedicated and if therefore it is vegan in nature. The word soul has a very interesting history and an indefensible quandary it faces in the present time. The Online Etymological Dictionary claims that the origins of this word are unknown. The Old English word Sawol is listed and then the Proto-Germanic Saiwalo which then relates to the old Norse Sala, the Old Frisian Sele, the Middle Dutch Siele, the Dutch Ziel, Old High German Seula, German Seele, and finally the Gothic Saiwala. The highly dubious Wikipedia adds to the list Sele as a secondary form of the Old High German, the Old Saxon Seola, Old Low Franconian Sela and Sila and the Lithuanian Siela. These terms are very important for our discussion although it may seem a bit dry to those not interested in language history and linguistic evolution. The most important submission is the final Lithuanian Siela. This is because Lithuanian is one of the European languages that is truest to its Sanskrit roots; this is easily verified online. All the above languages are Sanskrit root languages. Did you know even English is a dialect of Sanskrit? So are French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German and Russian rooted in the great grandmother language of Sanskrit. The reason that the Lithuanian Siela is so important is that it reveals to us all the true source of the word soul. I have talked personally with many Theravada Monastics and Vaishnavas about this and the ones that have studied Pali and or Sanskrit know the answer. Pali is a Sanskrit dialect that was spoken in India during the reign and empire of King Ashoka. They explain that the word soul comes from the Pali root Sila or the Hindu root word Shila. In terms of phonemes, the sound of words, this makes sense. Often dictionaries define soul by cross referencing it to the Sanskrit word Atman which does not sound like soul at all. If you tell Wikipedia or the OED or Webster’s Dictionary’ scholars that Sila or Shila is the root for the word soul, they will not listen. They refuse to link Christian mysticism to India in an ethnocentric denialism that refuses to listen. The term Atman is the proper term for soul and yet it is understood to mean something far different from what Abrahamic traditions of Christianity and Islam teach. What is Sila or Shila? It is the honor derived from one’s conduct. Buddha used the term when he listed the Ten Paramitas (Sanskrit) or Paramis (Pali.) This makes sense because the Christian and Muslim religions are enmeshed with the ideas of soul being connected to conduct, honor, judgement and ultimately the final destiny of heaven or hell. The true meaning of Shila or Sila is not a spiritual concept but a civic concept, like a knight in shining armor’s honor. After the Avatar Parashurama exiled through battle many warrior clans from India, they migrated to the Middle East to Russia and eventually Europe carrying with them the warrior caste notion of Shila and their incorrect interpretations of early Vedic culture which got them exiled. This is the origin of Celtic, Tartar and ancient Babylonian cultures which evolved Shila into a notion of a spiritual ‘soul’ concept over thousands and thousands of years especially through the advent of Abrahamic traditions. Is our honor based on vegan conduct? Is our honor vegan in nature? Is there an eternal nature to our vegan conduct and vegan honor? I think the answer is obvious; yes, of course. How can one claim to have proper conduct and honor if they kill unarmed herbivores, if they eat the bloody dead carcasses of tortured and murdered animals or drink the mammary secretions of other species? Only a vegan lifestyle offers the foundation of honor and correct conduct which must then be coupled with strong morality and a true spiritual practice. Then, one may safely assume, that all Shila or rather all Souls are vegan in their truest natures and must cultivate vegan lifestyles for normalcy, good health and spiritual evolution. Post Date: 01/23/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Kevala Jnana In the Jain way of being and transcendence there is a deep understanding concerning the nature of the Atman, a term that roughly translates as soul. If a person commits wrongful acts, these acts become magnetic to Karma both spiritually and physically with negative Karmic photon like particles aggregating at the Atman. This ultimately darkens the consciousness of the wrong doer, limiting the free range of the wrong doer’s mind, haunting their heart, and reflects as conflict with one’s community. When one does good acts that are beneficent for one’s self, one’s family, one’s society and the world then greater light from good Karma transmits positive photonic particles to swarm around the Atman. This greater light from good thoughts and deeds then grants greater vision, greater wisdom, and more love from the community. When one becomes dedicated to goodness, little by little, usually over many incarnations, one may rid one’s self of the obscuring Karma of negative photonic particles surrounding the Atman and begin the process of entering a light filled, purely good expression of Atman called Kevala Jnana. This is a state of all knowing wisdom and is a necessary condition of manifesting prior to liberation from the cycle of life and rebirth. Buddha is thought to have reached this state by Buddhists, and the Jain practitioners look to Mahavira as the prime example of this level of awareness. Kevala Jnana is supreme knowledge, absolute knowledge and reveals all truth emanating from all time and space and beyond. Through Kevala Jnana, one must certainly know the truth concerning vegan awareness and the importance of a dedicated vegan lifestyle. Certainly, the vegan diet and a resulting vegan lifestyle is the way of being which is closest to goodness on Earth. How could one display Kevala Jnana as a meat eater or even a lactarian vegetarian? More important than how much we eat, how we eat or when we eat is what we eat. All Kevala Jnana must be Vegan Kevala Jnana. This means that both the Buddha and Mahavira were vegans prior to their Moksha or liberation from this temporal existence. Post Date: 01/25/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Religion World religions are so diverse that there must be some method to delineate their myriad of practices. There is one method I have found that assists in finding which religions offer truly positivistic spiritual cultivation and which ones are barbaric. Although there is no vegan world religion established as a corporate entity yet, there are individuals as myself who do adhere to the correctly intended practice of religions that are positivistic by finding vegan pathways of practice. There are three Abrahamic traditions, for example. Genesis 1:29 is the only edict directly promulgated by God to all of creation found in both the Torah and the Bible. In this scriptural tract, God claims that only a vegan diet is acceptable for all humans and only an herbivorous diet is acceptable for animals. This means that one must be a practicing vegan to be in the full presence of God. This edict was made before the fall of man, and so it is done in the purity of God’s true presence. All the words of Prophets, Kings, Judges, Messiahs, Disciples, and others do not compare to this one commandment that emanates directly from God. By contrast, this passage does not exist in the Talmud. Temples that call themselves Jewish but do not honor the Torah and have replaced the Torah with the Talmud do not honor this singular commandment. Also from what I have read, it seems Islam, as thought by some Shiite practitioners, apparently was to originally have been passed on to Ali ibn Abi Talib who was a vegetarian because of the original vegetarian intent of this religion. However, not unlike Talmudic Judaism, Islam was hijacked by jealous individuals who destroyed all vegetarian passages, changed the intended lineage, and changing the Majid Koran, the unchangeable Koran to exclude any references to vegetarian practices. I was born in a different culture over one thousand years after these religions splintered. I do not know what really happened and can only report what I have learned from diverse sources. I do not seek to slander Sunni Islam nor Judaism and I cannot speak to the truth of these remarks I have found through research, but they were written by Jews and Shiite practitioners of Islam. I am sure there are people who can argue both sides. The fact remains that many Jews want to return to animal sacrificing with the building of their third Temple, and at the Haj sacrifices over 1,000,000 animals every year, some of which have been displayed on YouTube. These are obviously not vegan practices. Christianity in all its diverse forms does not seem to comply with this one commandment ushered directly by the Creator except by some of the Seventh Day Adventists. It amazes me that only one Church of the hundreds of splinter Christian groups and organizations is willing to acknowledge God’s direct commandment as an institution. In my opinion, a vegan Torah honoring Jew and a vegan Seventh Day Adventist are practicing religions that I do not practice, but by being vegan I view them as civilized. Likewise, Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist and Confuscianist practices have honored vegetarianism for centuries and in some cases more than a millennium. These religions also honor vegan practices and are slowly making progress towards turning their cultures vegan. They agree that veganism is correct, they often have scriptures, recipes, or other cultural support that indicates the vegan path to be acceptable and when they accept the true nature of their Scriptures they will go vegan. Because of this trend these are civilized religions. Killing animals is not a God experience. Eating animal or human flesh is not sacred, it is fallen. Religions that accept the vegan imperative also seem to accommodate diversity and equality better and are more humanistic in general. Vegan religion is the only civilized way to practice. Post Date: 01/27/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Tao Lao Tzu wrote a brilliant piece of what may be one of our planet’s finest literary works. It has been translated into many languages but it is best understood in Chinese languages. Chinese characters are amalgamated pictographs that are composed of many smaller sub characters. With Lao Tzu’s “Tao Te Ching” the wording is such that the sub-characters of Chinese make as much sense as the larger full linguistic characters and this creates an apparent three-dimensional matrix holograph of concepts that are all true to the message he wrote. It is a brilliant piece of literature with a brilliant message but the way that the sub characters and full characters both speak through this literary work makes it almost miraculously magical. The word Tao has been misunderstood for centuries. It has been translated at water flowing, method, means, path, way, and course. None of these translations speak to its omnipresent, omnipotent, beguiling presence. The Chinese Bible incorrectly uses the word Tao in the book of Genesis to explain how Tao created all of life. Tao does not create. Tao is revealed and its nature is sublime but it does not create, rather it explains and mitigates. Even these words do no justice for it is as complex of a concept as emptiness or dharma. It is ever present as all phenomenon and yet it is inscrutable, subtle, and pervasive. Vegan realism is likewise a Tao that is also beatific and concerning. The normal diet that is healthy for all people, good for water resourcing, good for the environment, and necessary to provide enlightening consciousness is the vegan diet. So why do people resist going vegan? The Tao is frustratingly simple and yet it is impervious. Opposite views are entangling time while the environment is getting spent, water is running out and still people sustain minds of poisonous carnivores. Instead of agricultural values of patience learned from raising crops, prayerfulness hoping for rain, meditation in connecting with plant growth, reincarnation concepts like the death and rebirth of plants from winter to spring, cooperation gained from harvesting and planting with your neighbor’s help and continuous cultivation of morality, humans hunt for themselves and kill the rest. We have descended into an animal consciousness of the predator by eating meat and yet vegetables and plants are everywhere growing and watching us. Lao Tzu wrote, “That which describes the Tao is not the Tao.” So, let us all be vegan and remove all obstructions to the natural flow and order of life. The sun rises and sets, the rain comes followed by sunlight, the four seasons pass and the circle of life continues in a precision of procession that knows proportion, order, and nurturance. We do not want the beautiful Dharma of life, Tao, to be imbalanced because we ate the wrong things and destroyed the delicate balance that grows life on Earth. Post Date: 01/30/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| How To Love The Buddha explained that the people we truly love are not the source of our life’s joy as one may think. I was listening to a YouTube lecture by a very special Buddhist Monk named Ajahan Amaro, and he explained that in the Suttas, the Buddhist Scriptures, the Buddha had stated that suffering, indeed suffering comes from the relationships we hold dearest to our hearts. Love creates suffering. I had to really think about this for a few days. Many things I realized during this time, but one thought seemed important to share with the world and it has brought me to this moment in time. We are not ready for love on Earth because we do not know how to suffer. We also do not know how to fight correctly, which is the outward expression of our suffering, and thus we do not know how to love. No one teaches us how to love. This explains why there are so many failed relationships. The Buddha taught that all life is a suffering process and his mission was to teach how to end suffering, yet, he did not teach us how to endure it. Jesus suffered on the cross so deeply that his heart could have cried out and ripped the very fabric of reality, shredding it into a billion pieces like a shattered cosmic mosaic falling all around us, toppling into the endlessness of a bottomless illusion in the great holograph of creation. Instead both Buddha and Jesus suffered silently. The same is true for almost every great religious leader, saint, guru and good person that has ever walked this planet. But is this the correct way to suffer? If to love is to suffer, then we must unlock the mystery of how one should suffer if we will ever learn how to love. Our suffering is not our pain although it is painful. Suffering is anguish that is deepening and personal and it is a powerful source of growth. Our suffering exists, in accordance with Buddhist teachings, because we cling, holding and clutching, and refusing to release to the universal dance. When we love, we hold on dearly and this is the central mistake. We undermine the freedom of others, we tell them what to do, we conflict with what is and try to amend the natural flow that pulsates life through our minds and bodies. We hold on to what we want and we do not suffer silently, so we inflict our suffering on others to show them who wins at this suffering game. This then leads to fights. To best understand suffering, we need look no further than our daily meals. If there is a piece of animal on your plate, then an innocent, blameless being who had feelings, family, home and touched the divinity of life with its breath has been ruthlessly isolated, alienated, beaten, tortured and killed. If you suffer, perhaps it in part due to this very suffering inflicted upon the animals one has eaten. The spiritual and emotional pain of being degraded to the stature of food, to be wanted for flesh and ignored for love is the very cruelest fate. To reduce the magnitude of fighting, in marriages and war, we must own our suffering and when it is over abandon it. Not just for the Karmic content and resolution of past deeds, but we must do this for the existential dilemma that cannot be unraveled. We must acknowledge the source of our suffering and find its end and the path to its end, but first we must suffer maturely, willingly, lovingly and for the benefit of our own growth and for the freeing of all sentient beings that they do not need to suffer as we do. We should learn and train ourselves to fight peacefully and with honor and non violently until our suffering ceases and the source for the fight is revealed. This involves training and discipline. We must also purify our Karma and go vegan so that negative pathways do not delude our progression towards the wisdom and grace that ends suffering. We need to teach young married couples that the love they share for their spouses and children suffers deeply in their hearts silently until they release from owning this experience of love and life. Post Date: 01/29/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Kali Yuga According to Hindu and Buddhist understanding of time, we are in the Age of Kali Yuga. The Ages operate in a circle. It all begins with God, then it devolves into the presence of God, then devotion to God, then the Absence of God before rounding the corner and slowly returning to God through the same progression of Ages in reverse order. Kali Yuga, the Age we are in, is the furthest from God. In this fallen state of consciousness of Kali Yuga, it is as if everyone is sleeping. We need to awaken to the presence of God, to enlightenment, to liberate ourselves and others, to accept the responsibility of our Karma and to purify ourselves. In Kali Yuga, it is as if God is sleeping and cannot reach us because he is busy dreaming. During this Age, materialism abounds and spiritualism declines. Atheism and scientific logic replacing faith and correct conduct are signs of this Yuga as everyone seeks money and not spiritual advancement. Cows and animals are treated badly during this age through factory farming and people turn the tortured and murdered remains of the sacred cow into fun food replete with clowns, toys, bright color logos and theme songs for monetary gain. Religion in Kali Yuga also goes into decline as do political structures, economics, nationalism, reasons for war, education, and food quality. What increases is technology for war, prisons, terrorism, corruption, and pollution. Religions in Kali Yuga typically kill God, eat God, demand God kills for human, finds God among prostitutes, imprisons God and enslaves for God. This does not mean that religion cannot somehow set things right in the hearts of men, it just means there are strange twists along the path. Politics no longer is an arena where noble people lead the population to greater awareness and spiritual greatness in Kali Yuga. Instead, the political leaders are murdering megalomaniacs and narcissists that only seek personal profit and gain from their position of power and do not care about the suffering of the people. Elections are stolen, demagogues rise, bad examples for the youth are set and brainwashing begins. In Kali Yuga people are ‘disappeared’ and mass graves are kept a secret until later. In terms of food, all plant life is genetically altered so that it no longer is pure, rather it has animal genomes artificially injected into it. This ruins any chance of a purely vegan existence. People eat junk food made from chemicals for its main ingredients. People regularly die from the food they eat through heart disease, diabetes and even malnutrition. Food is no longer Prasadam, an offering to God, and instead of being prepared by loving hands, it is produced by machines and resentful people who curse it rather than bless it. Our only hope is to practice vegan lifestyles infused with vegan spiritual and vegan religious practices. Even though this is an uphill toil filled with failures in Kali Yuga, we must persist. Through vegan religious practices and a vegan lifestyle one may purify enough to at least see the problem clearly and perhaps help to resolve this Cosmic dilemma. It may seem strange to others singing Sai Baba songs on a fruitarian diet or chanting Om Vegan Buddha after a tofu rice bowl or meditating in a Hatha Yoga position before drinking juice and fasting from solid foods, or preferring to eat only bread and water to reach the vegetarian truth about Jesus, but this is how we must struggle as a people to find our truth and our virtue in this Age of Kali Yuga. If enough of us become vegan, we can turn the materialism and scientific rationalism in our favor and transform Kali Yuga into Vegan Kali Yuga. We can do this because the A.M.A. does find the vegan diet as the best diet for health, and because all the religions agree the vegan diet is good for spiritual development and cultivating compassion, and because it is the best way to stop the food and water crisis we face. Through renunciation we can develop a world economy of only plant and mineral products. We can build shelters, practice medicine, build transportation, clothe, and feed the world this way through vegan means and return to a ‘sane and reverent planet’ a phrase coined by Caroline Casey, a famous astrologer of Kali Yuga. Post Date: 01/31/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Enlightenment Vegan Enlightenment is the central theme of vegan spirituality and vegan religion and it is also the fulfillment and crowning obtainment of all spirituality and religion. It is not simply the enlightenment of the vegan revolution concerning ecology, population control and animal compassion but extends into a shift of consciousness that happens through eating only vegan food. Vegan Enlightenment effects what and how a person consumes not limited to food; it effects inter-human relationships, it effects one's aesthetics, it effects philosophy and virtually every other aspect of one’s humanity. Vegan Enlightenment is the only method for overcoming ignorance, anger, and greed. Vegan Enlightenment overcomes all social, political, religious, and economic failures of the past. Vegan Enlightenment is our future unless we choose annihilation. Vegan Enlightenment is the choice for evolving life towards the corrected direction that will ascend humanity to its full potential thus fulfilling its ultimate purpose. Vegan Enlightenment exists within everyone’s heart and is naturally activated when one goes vegan. Post Date: 02/14/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Moksha Everyone wants to be liberated. How deeply liberated does everyone want to go? For the Hindu community, the idea of liberation or Moksha goes further than any other culturally defined liberation. It reaches further and deeper than liberation Theology of the Catholic faith, it also reaches far beyond a Cuba Libre served in Havana. These two Latino concepts of liberation are important here. It implies that there are many levels of liberation. In Hinduism, the ideal liberation is viewed as freedom from family, work, society, religion, life, death, rebirth, Karma, heaven, hell, all attachments, all patterns of thought and action, and far, far beyond. The Buddhists idealize the exact same Moksha process and call it Nirvana. Jain Dharma also seeks Moksha and just like the Hindu Moksha it means literally giving back your soul or Atman to the Creator in complete purity and being free from every encumbrance. One releases to Shunyata or emptiness, in accordance with the Buddha Dharma, and emerges as Devayata or in the position of Godliness without being bound by the heavenly restraints of Devarupa or god-hood in the god realm. So, if practitioners of Sanatana Dharma, the eternal truth of universal liberation, buried in the schools of modern Hinduism, Jain Dharma, and Buddha Dharma practice rigorously for this level of complete and total liberation, why are they afraid of tying their shoes? If you are trying to fly, why are your shoes still untied? What I mean by this, is that with such grand designs of Moksha or liberation, why would the most basic and simple thing be overlooked? To be liberated from Karma and all worldly attachments means accepting the deepest truth. How can one approach Moksha or Nirvana without being vegan? We must shed our Earthly attachment to all animal products before we even begin this path of Enlightenment to the final liberation of Moksha or Nirvana. The gift of life is the opportunity to enter the path of liberation by first going vegan and then finding a teacher or a method to access the Sanatana Dharma in one of the many schools of modern vegan Hinduism, vegan Jain Dharma or vegan Buddha Dharma. To approach true Enlightenment, Moksha, or Nirvana as a meat eater or a milk drinker is just self-deception and delusion. Overcoming the obstacle of ignorance means not to ignore the fundamental truth of suffering, especially the suffering of animals in food production. To live without ignorance also means to embrace the healthiest diet which is the vegan diet, the most ecological diet which is the vegan diet, and the most compassionate diet which is the vegan diet. Post Date: 02/22/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Spiritually Improve Your Workout If you walk, hike, jog, run, swim or simply suffer at any exercise trying to slowly progress in your endeavor to gain some benefit, here is a technique that is simple, easy, involves nothing to ingest and will reap exponential benefits. It is an ancient technique that goes back to the origins of known written history. Best of all, it is completely vegan. Ask any athlete or trainer, the mind is the biggest obstacle to gaining improvement and success in any workout routine. Overcome the mind and there is no pain and no limit to progress. Of course, the mind being filled with attachments, programed patterns that are self-defeating and a generally undisciplined wandering constitution, it is indeed very tough to overcome. This technique is not limited to exercise, but may be implemented in all life activities. Try it once and see the improvement. The technique? Chanting. This is a simple non-religious, nonsectarian beautiful piece of ancient poetry to start with that originated around the 12th century by the then Dalai Lama. “The Gem Is In The Lotus.” This vegan phrase is harmless and yet it references a very mystical, deep, and profound hidden meaning. In Sanskrit, this phrase goes like this: “Om Mani Padme Hum.” To use this mantra when walking, running or swimming etc., simply use one syllable per step or per stroke in the pool. Om, Mah, Nee, Pahd, Meh, Hoom (written phonetically). If you start with your right foot, you will end with your left foot so you can then begin again. If you wish to switch feet, simply skip the Om once and it will then begin on the opposite foot and end suchlike as well. All Mantras works this way. Why? Because, most Mantras were developed at a time in history before the advent of cars, planes, and trains and so everyone walked. And because everyone walked, they needed a little help when the hill was steep or the load was heavy. There are literally millions of Mantras available found on the web, on YouTube, in books and in temples. There are Hindu Mantras, Buddhist Mantras and Jain Mantras and since there is no ingesting of any substance involved, this process is entirely vegan. Another great Mantra is “Vegan Awakening” or in Sanskrit, “Om Vegan Buddha.” For walking, hiking, jogging etc., simply use each syllable as follows, Om, Vee, Gan, Boo, Dah (written phonetically). Not only will your workout improve, but your mind will get very clear, and you will gain mental balance, strength, and discipline. Because these Mantras (Mantram in Sanskrit for the plural) exist to reconnect people with the beauty, majesty, and goodness of life, you may be surprised to see your entire life improve. There are long Mantram, Short Mantram and everything in between. There are non-religious, nonsectarian Mantram, and there are religious Mantram. There are Mantram for personal gain, and there are Mantram to help the world. I suggest that one finds the translation and meaning of any Mantra employed, and agree with its meaning first. Have at least five Mantram ready if you swim or walk for the good part of an hour or more. Post Date: 03/06/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Meditation You do not have to practice any religion to sit quietly. You will only deal with angry animal spirits if you sit quietly and are not vegan. Vegans meditate well. Buddha teaches meditation without religion and he does such a good job, they made a religion out of it. Hindus meditate to contact Gods and Goddesses. Jains meditate as do practitioners of martial arts. There are many places to learn, even psychologists teach meditation. Christians meditate and call it contemplation. Vegan meditation…..meditate on it. Post Date: 03/09/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Yoga Yoga means union, implied in this word is union with the divine. To practice Yoga only as an exercise regime is to miss the point entirely. I have been to many Yoga studios and the burning of incense, a statue in the corner and a group Mantra repetition monthly is not Yoga. Yoga is a method of physical submission to the highest spiritual realizations of one’s mind, heart, and Atman. One should begin Yoga by visualizing the Yidam or Ishtadevata of one’s life’s intonement, the physical representation of one’s guiding Bodhisattva or Deva, in front of one’s Yoga mat. The entire breath centered practice of Yoga is a physical submission to that divinity firmly established at the front of one’s Yoga prayer mat. Each breath is the gift of life received from and dedicated to the sacred Yidam or Ishtadevata. The entire practice of Yoga is a prayer for union and atonement with that divinity and the actual oneness that naturally occurs in a vivid visionary state during Yoga. Then after the Yoga practice is completed, after a short rest in the Shavasana Asana, meditation is absolutely necessary. The whole point of Yoga, its entire purpose is to benefit the physical act of meditation. Meditation can only be performed successfully by vegans. Yoga is a vegan art form. If one consumes animal products, their entire practice is spent arguing with angry animal spirits. To center one’s self in vegan Yoga and vegan meditation, one should always refer to their Yidam or Ishtadevata waiting majestically in front of one’s Yoga prayer mat as a vegan; to honor the Earth, the cows, the environment, and the highest truth. Nama Vegan Maha Deva, Nama Vegan Avalokiteshvara, Nama Vegan Shakti Devi, Nama Vegan Gurudev etc. are all acceptable methods for addressing the divine, to reach true states of vegan Yoga, of vegan Deva and vegan Jhana. This is only the beginning. This is an elementary start to true Yoga realization. This vegan practice of Yoga and meditation goes much, much, much further. Post Date: 03/11/17, Replies: 0 | ||
| Vegan Vishnu He who preserves all life throughout the multiverse demands that we participate in preserving and respecting life. Vegan lifestyles on Earth are the only acceptable method of living in accordance with the Creator and Preserver’s intention. Vegan Shiva, the destroyer, is the greatest devotee of Vegan Vishnu. Even the destructive forces of the universe only serve the creative principle of Vegan Vishnu. All the wars, all the diseases, all the deaths and all the violence are functions of past Karma relating to non-vegan practices. Hunting, meat eating and animal sacrificing are the source of crime, war, subjugation, and disease. All of creation stems from Vegan Vishnu and the Karmic retribution for transgressing the established correct vegan life modality is serious, complete, and exact. Morality has been established through the Vegan Vishnu Avatar of Vegan Buddha, Power and Justice has been established through the Avatar of Vegan Krishna, Loyalty and Dedication has been established through the Avatar of Vegan Rama, and all such other virtues are exemplified through the multitude of Vegan Vishnu’s incarnations on Earth. Although in past Yugas the knowledge for vegan sources of vitamin B complex and D3 were unknown, and so milk and egg were consumed, the direction established has always been towards veganism not towards carnivorous debasement. Now we have these dietary supplements and so a vegan diet can be practiced without any problems. There is no excuse, everyone can be vegan. Anyone not practicing a vegan lifestyle suffers greatly in this life and every incarnation to come. There are no excuses, there are no exceptions. This is how life is preserved, by separating the wheat from the chaff. Post Date: 03/14/17, Replies: 0 |
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