Very Interesting Video..must watch!
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Dear everyone,
Do take your time and watch this video. It has a very strong and clear message. Pass this video around. Make sure as many people as possible get to see it.
Have ten people you know or don’t know watch this. When you have done so, leave a message in the comment section and I will make incense offerings for you with a prayer on my shrine.
Facebook and tweet also…thank you for caring.
Leave your comments that you are ready to go all the way and have a healthy spiritual relationship with your surroundings. Don’t complain what you can’t do, just do what you can and start with this…thank you very much.
Tsem Tulku
Boy, this is beyond words….but that is how some supermarkets around the world entice people to buy..OM MANI PEME HUNG.
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I see clearly that education is the problem here. Education can break habituation, education is a stronger force. People don’t want to do wrong, but they are ignorant of what’s right. The problem I see is that when confronted with the truth, people cannot, or refuse to change negatives into positives. What stands in the way of strong education seems to be ‘special interest’ groups bombarding the public all over the world, that meat is what you eat! Your parents and grandparents ate it, and it’s what your gonna eat too, don’t ask why!
The dilemma of teaching/educating habituated people… I’m sure that is the lament of every good teacher…
PS: If I may be so very bold, I must mention that the last picture of the meat packaged up with the pint of beer used to make sense to me. Toward the time when I was almost vegetarian, I wanted to numb my brain with some beer before I ate flesh-meat so I wouldn’t think about it too much. Pretty sick… You want truth, there you go. So now I don’t eat meat, but I drink 2x a week or so. I’m getting bored of being stupid though, I think I will stop soon.
Dear Rinpoche
Thank you for sharing this video. I am lucky to find it when the internet connection is good. I have sent the link to at least 10 of my friends.
Please kindly pray for me. In the Lama Tsongkhapa website that will go live on 24 October (your birthday), there will be a section on animal protection program, hopefully it will inspire more people to go vegan.
Much love
Valentina
Dear Rinpoche,
I sent out a mass email to my family, friends and customers. I also posted on facebook and twitter. I hope they will find the time to watch this video and I hope it will inspire more people to be vegetarian.
Going meatless is one way we can help save the environment and save the many animals from going to the slaughter houses.
Much love and prayers
Patsy
Dear Rinpoche, i have forwarded to my family, friends, business contacts. I pray they will watch the video, think on it and start including less meat in their diet and then go all the way. When i see meat nowadays, for example, chicken, the first picture that flashes in front of me is the video of those chickens who cant even stand because they have been fed on hormones to make them grow fat quickly for profit. So repetitive messages sent makes an imprint and has helped me to start being more conscious of my food choices. I am shocked at the photo of the meat and beer packs on sale in the supermarket – what happened to business etiquette? Thank you for sharing the video and the photos. Thank you very much for praying for me.
Dear Rinpoche, Thank you for sharing this, I have posted to my friends and my facebook. I believe awareness is key for people to really let it sink-in that eating meat is not the right way and creates so much suffering. Thank you for your prayers and for your compassion for the animals who have no voices.
Love,
Dawnene
That would be wonderful if you re-post it again and again to CREATE AWARENESS. We can do something just sitting in front of our PC’s..so why not. Thanks alot.
This video tells of a story that should appeal to everyone as there are so many positive dimensions to be had by making one simple decision. If one cannot feel for the animals being mistreated and then slaughtered for food, and if one cannot see the madness in forgoing feeding 16 people for sake of one pound of meat (often left unfinished, then surely one should see that the decision to go vegan is a decision to save oneself and the environment we all live in.
In the end, global warming and other environmental catastrophes will not discriminate between countries where unfinished meat dishes are thoughtlessly thrown away and countries where there is not even a grain of rice.
We all live on the same planet and we are ALL connected. Think of how AIDS spread, recall how quickly SARS became pandemic, remember how an earthquake in one far-away country devastated lives thousands of miles away.
Imagine what one simple decision can do.
Thank you for this post Rinpoche.