Claire Briard
Since i met you here on facebook Rinpoché, I stopped eating meat; you had a very good impact on me and practise, this has changed me a lot your presence and “dharma teaching in everyday life”.
This is funny, but now animals are more closer to me..cats and dogs used to Like me already, and now it worst..they come to me all, as if they feel they are safe with me..I feel in harmony with nature, and feel i have so much more respect for the all of it; in stopping eating meat.
Second thing, I think all the time that I- maybe like a little drop of water in the ocean- but if one+one+one+one,ect….stop eating meat, well at this end it will make a difference: that logical and for sure.
When people ask me why I stopped eating meat, I ask them if they like animals: they say “yes” my dogs and cats are my friends! so i ask them:”do you eat your friends???”" “I don’t” !. and they says to me “but I like the animals!!!!” and I answer :” that what you think, but if you really like them you will stop eating meat I believe”you don’t like them enought..!!!”
I tell them to imagine that the pig or cow they eat could be their domestic animal with a cute little name, living in their house, day to day, being their compagnon, and they will never want to eat him or her…as they won’t never thing of eating their dog or cat!!!! When I said that to some chidrens meat eater last time, they all stay in silence, and some of them just undesrtand suddenly what I meant, because sometimes chidren are more open than adults….
(This is Claire Briard message to me on a comments sections of the facebook. I was so thrilled to get her message and how she has stopped eating meat…I wanted to share this. Thank you Ms. Briard for taking a stance, being true to yourself and being kind to animals that have every right to live in peace without us eating them)
Or view the video on the server at: http://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/herecomesthesun.flv
Claire, this song is dedicated just for you…
I am so happy for your new path of being loving to animals,
Sincerely, Tsem Rinpoche
Thank you so much Rinpoche.I forgot to say, that as say Buddha , our life is so very short on earth; that we should do the best of it for this little time. So we don’t need to hurt animals to live, we should respect every living thing on earth, with no exceptions, because they must be here for a reason, like all of us.
We don’t need to eat meat to stay alive, you can live a entire and beautiful life without a single piece of meat put in your mouth.
We will live healthier life and more peacefull life without had to kill and make suffer and bleed a poor living being who has feeling exactely like us. Animals have childrens, family as well, they have to feed and care for their baby, and protect them, same as us. they are sensitive beings, just like us.and they just want to live their entire Life to the end , without being killed for a false pleasure of contentment…
Observe any animal living in a farm now : they live in total fear of humans, from their birth..to their death. they have not an isntant of love or peace for themselves! in theil short life taken away by man, they only experiment one feeling : fear…and very intense physical suffering to end up their poor life : do you think we would like it if it happens to us ::being born in fear, with no love ; and being killed very young for our skins or flesh: I think we all agree that we we will think it s unfair and very cruel! and that exactely what’s man do!!If animals could speak…in one word, they will comdemn our souls for eternal endless hell to treat them the way we do!!
Let ‘s respect the animals as they respect us : they could attack us, or bit us , or some of them, they could even eat us…but they don’t because they feel the compassion and the love deep inside themself more than some of us I suppose, but they can’t tell. it is for us to guess…
Let them the animals live in peace, and lives their whole life entirely, naturally.Let them have a family, and share love and affection with their loved ones and be free to enjoy life; like we ourselves we ‘d love to enjoy life too.
They have a lot to teach us.
Instead of treat them with no respect, we should try to listen to each message each one of them has to deliver to us…it talks about Love and Compassion…:)
Claire
Life is sometimes very strange. I used to eat a lot of meat and would always complain when there is not enough meat on the dinner table.
Almost 2 years ago, I saw this message on http://www.kechara.com (Kechara’s spiritual guide is Tsem Tulku Rinpoche) web page which says, “If you are a Buddhist, you should be vegetarian. No IF, No BUT.” After seeing this image, I started my vegetarian diet from that day onwards.
To me, letting go of meat not only generate compassionate, more importantly for me, is letting go of my attachments…
I sincerely thank Rinpoche for this special message and got me starting vegetarianism.