In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the moral implications of consuming meat and advocates for vegetarianism to prevent harm to living beings.
The Dalai Lama highlights the ethical concerns surrounding the consumption of meat, pointing out that satisfying one person's hunger often comes at the cost of many lives. He urges society to adopt vegetarianism not just for health reasons, but as a moral imperative to protect other beings and promote compassion.
In practice
This quote can be used during a lecture on ethical eating and sustainability.
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.
Material objects give rise to physical happiness, while spiritual development gives rise to mental happiness. Since we experience both physical and mental happiness, we need both material and spiritual development. This is why, for our own good and that of society we need to balance material progress with inner development.
All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
My religion is kindness. _x000D_ A good mind, a good heart, _x000D_ warm feelings these are _x000D_ the most important things.
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.
Personally, I don't give a rap for documents; for the truth in my eyes is not in them but in the mind.
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually begins at the earth.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
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