Everything Has The Right To Live
Everything on this planet and other planets have a right to live. You do not have any right to take it away with any justification.
Blood, slaughter, killing, murder of any creatures on this planet will come back to you. All actions come back.
Don’t be selective with karma. With things you are attached to, you don’t associate karma arising with their enactment. With things you are not attached to, you advocate karmic repercussions.
Be equal with all actions. All actions will create karma and you will be the one to experience it.
You will experience it. Love everything and follow vegetarianism. Please help as I beg you on my knees, save animals,
Tsem Rinpoche
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Thank you for giving us knowledge to free ourselves from bad karma. If we want to help the animals and reduce their suffering, we should stop eating meat. Their existence is not to serve human. Hope people are conscious and aware on what are they eating.
Whether vegetarian or non-vegetarian, food should be taken in the right quantities and to ensure there are enough nutrients to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Otherwise, food can kill and destroy us.
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This post is amazing. Just amazing. The message in this post is so important and so strong. I agree fully that everything really does have a right to live. Nobody should be able to just take away a life for any reason. Especially not to eat it. I hope that a lot and a lot of people come to this blog post and read this message. It is just so strong. Thank you so much Rinpoche for teaching us this with such humble words.
Yes, everything has the right to live… unfortunately people are just too selfish most of the time that they exploit animals and even people for the sake of profit…
I am now a vegetarian because Rinpoche taught me the value of life and we should appreciate it no matter how small and insignificant it may be to us. Hope more people will realize how detrimental it is to exploit animals, not only for their spirituality, but to not cause any more unnecessary suffering…
Animals are not there for our consumption. They do so many functions for us, and have benefitted the human race for centuries from the smallest ant to the biggest blue whales. They give us joy, pleasure, companionship, rescue us etc etc
One have to understand and accept that our actions constitute to either positive or negative karma. Whether or not we go vegetarian is a personal choice, but educating people on going vegetarian is important. We will be surprise some people associate meat with food and not killing! Eg if we associate smoking with lung cancer and harming secondary smokers, we will quit the habit. Now I understand that when we consume meat, we are causing suffering and taking the life of another sentient being just like us, just to satisfy our taste buds. Going vegetarian is not difficult then.
Yes everything including animals. So evertime we go to a restuarant and order meat we are killing, murdering and taking a life. NO ONE HAS THAT RIGHT. Each time you eat meat some animal has to sacrifice a life for you to satisfy your urge and attachment. The more we can stand to see such sufferings and the exploitation of animals, turn us into colder, harder and more cruel beings without a conscience or feelings. STOP AND THINK….. of the Karmic repercussions of cause and effect which will ultimately catch up with you. Its really not worth it.
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We live in an interdependent world, each of our actions are closely related, the environment that we live in is an actual result reflecting our care towards others.
Having a clean, safe and healthy environment is crucial for our well being, and everyone, includes the animal have the rights to live in this healthy environment.
Many people ask, what can I do to help animals and live in better environment?
The answers are so many!
Rescue the animals from being abused. Give them medical treatment, feed them with good food and find them a home! Where to do all this meritorious actions? Come joint the activities organized by Kechara Animal Sanctuary (KAS) and Manjushri Kids Class, and go vegetarian in Kechara Oasis!
From a real carnivore, I become a vegetarian overnight in late September 2009. Not because I have this great love for animals. I do not even keep pets, but because I believe in lessening the suffering of all creatures. Rinpoche taught us how to really care about others, be they walk on four legs or two legs. Frankly, I was not even sure that I could last as long as I have being a veggie lover, but it is good to know that by NOT eating meat is my little way of contributing to reducing suffering for those less fortunate than me, and this is all inclusive – animals, humans, etc. We are all earthlings, children of the earth. May we all live in harmony and peace.
Dear Rinpoche,
I feel the exact same way about animals as you. My two cats are like my children and make the wish everyday that all sentient beings without exception have the same unconditional love and care as they do. I have also been vegetarian for 16 years now and I will never go back to eating meat. Over the years, I’ve also managed to convince many others, using gentle persuation or leading by example, to either reduce their consumption of meat, to buy organically grown animals or just to go veg full stop.
I know many Vajrayana practitioners who still gorge on meat, saying that everything is empty anyway. I don’t wish to criticise them, but Padmasambhava himself said this: “Although my view is higher than the sky, my respect for the cause and effect of actions is as fine as grains of flour.” I think this is an important point which should not be forgotten with all practitioners. The great Mahasiddhas Patrul Rinpoche as well as Shabkar also extolled the virtues of vegetarianism as Buddhist practitioners.
Rinpoche, please continue your most excellent Bodhisattva work towards helping sentient beings.
With love and care,
Monique
Thank you Rinpoche, for reminding us all of the inherent value in all living creatures. Many times we forget to think about the cause and effect of our own actions in relation to how we interact with our fellow travelers.