Please Respect Animals
Animals must be respected by us. All Buddhists or ppl with a conscience should abandon eating of meat.
Animals have many complex feelings and fears just like us. They deserve to be happy and left in peace.
I love animals so much.
Believing in the infallible doctrine of karma will be a big boost to stop the harming of animals.
Tsem Rinpoche
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I respect animals more than people we’re the ones messing up this world not them. Show respect for the animals by being good example, showing kindness to all animals and teaching children to love, care and be kind to animals. Ever thing starts young by teaching children to respect animals can impact the way they view environmental issues and so they may also showcase respect for humans.
All animals deserve peace and respect because they suffer and sense pain in the same way and to the same degree that we as human do. They can feel happiness, pain, fear, pleasure, care, sadness, loneliness, and motherly love. They could understand more than what we give them credit for. Animals are also living creatures and one of us.
Thank you Rinpoche for sharing to bring awareness to others.
Animals have feelings too. They can feel the pain, the sadness and the joy. You can see the fear in their eyes when they know they’re going to the slaughter house waiting for their turn. No one can help them and they felt so helpless at the mercy of these people. It’s really heartbreaking to see them treated like this.
But when they sense your love they feel happy and show happy signs. They love you more than they love themselves.
I have a doggie and I love her as much as she loves me.
Please treat all animals with respect as they deserve to live just like us.
Jill Yam
Another simple yet powerful message. Thank you Rinpoche.
Dear Rinpoche, I completely agree with what Rinpoche wrote on the above. Actually everyone knows that all sentient beings have feelings but many of them just don’t even bother to think what feelings are the animals going through when people hunt down their family members and their friends.
When they are being tortured by people in the slaughter houses, the pain and the suffering. Being cramped together with their own kinds in small areas, had to fight for food, water and shelter. Many of the animals never even have the chance to see the sun, from when they were young, they were taken away from their mothers and lived with the others. And they had no space to even exercise.
While their mothers are being milked few times per day and all the workers gave them were just food and water. They never had a chance of being free in their whole lifetime, not even for a moment. Even until when they are going to die, they still get beaten up for unable to produce milk or do work anymore. And that’s where and how your food comes from. We should help the animals by becoming a vegetarian and promote vegetarianism.
Animals are just like us, they have feelings too. So if we can’t even fulfill the most basic moral which is to respect others, then what are we? I’ve seen a lot of articles/videos/pictures re people beating up small animals. This is not fair! What have they done to you?? Only retards will run around beating up animals!
I love animals, especially dolphins. Thank you, Rinpoche, for sharing your thoughts on respecting animals. I think that animals should be respected as they have once been our mother’s in our past lives and if one does not believe in reincarnation, then animals are sentient beings and are capable of feelings. We should respect that.
Yes, we must respect animals. And the very best way of doing this is by not eating them. By not eating them, you can save their lives. Animals are no different from us, they feel pain just like us and they have feeling just like us. We have no right to eat them. This stupidity has to stop now.
All Animals had a sense, even those Animals don’t speak our human language, but Animals can feel our human body language and energy. Give them ( Animals ) love, care and foods, That’s all Animals need it from us.
Best Regards : Eric kksiow
Animals weren’t born to be killed or eaten. They have their rights to live on our beautiful mother earth. There’s no ‘level’ between human beings and the animals. In order to gain respect, we must first respect others. Animals are the same as humans, they can think, they communicate with each other, they feel pain and they know what love is. By hurting them, it equals to hurting people. Therefore, never hurt them but love them.
One day hopefully not too soon, we will have to take on an animal rebirth. What then if the very animals we have killed in this life becomes a human and our enemy who will take our lives?
I do not like it when people told me that animals are born to be the food for people. Human and animals should be friends. We are living beings in this mother earth. Although we are here by the control of our karma and we are put into position to be like killing them, taking out their skin etc. We do have a choice not to hurt them but to love them and let them have the freedom to live.
Since young I had never like to eat meat. I remember whenever I had food with meat I will always select and put aside any meat and eat rice and noodles with vegetables only. And because I do not take meat and without taking supplements or vitamins I suffer anaemia all the time. Then I began taking supplements and was alright. I can’t figure out why I do not like to eat meat when I was young. But when I grew up and became an adult I then only know. I use to see the bullock carts around my era of time. And oxes are used to pull the carts with heavy goods laden. And the cows provide us with milk as nourishment for our children and us. Similarly we have to pay them for their kindness for not killing and eating them. And for all other animals they also can feel sufferings like us. But through their bad karma they have been reborn as animals. So we must have compassion and not kill and eat them. Even if we are not vegetarian we ease their sufferings from the slaughter house by not eating them.
Animals really must be respected by everyone. I also think that people should either eat less meat or no meat at all. Animals have complex feelings that humans naturally cannot understand. They are mentally just like humans. They are somewhat better at some points as they know how to care for others properly! I like the picture of the Dolphins jumping out of the water into the sunset. It is at the perfect time and the right place! I really wish that everyone in the world will start respecting animals and treat them as if they have become part of you own family. They have their own family, how would you feel if someone comes along the road takes a mallet, whacks you father’s head until he drops to the ground. Then that man takes a knife and cut his legs apart and slowly pulls his skin off. That is what the son or daughter of the sheep or raccoon or any fur producing animals feel! We should respect and care for them. They suffer enough already!
The most recent animal liberation project was to release 100kg of catfish at Metropolitan Park by Kechara Animal Santuary. These fishes were released into the reserve pond to total freedom. These fishes are saved from kitchen knives as KAS buys them directly from the fish market.
Just like what H.E. Tsem Tulku Rinpoche said, animals have feelings too! They deserve to be happy and left in peace.
This is the perfect opportunity for the parents to educate our children, instill knowledge and feelings of love and care for the animals. Good education will be most effective if the children witness the parents being consistent in whatever they are explain and teach.
Please love and respect the animals, especially those that are near and close to you!
Vegetarianism is one of the best way to express our prayers of compassion for all sentient beings. We always pray for all sentient beings but one hand, we are eating sentient beings, digesting them and defecating their remains with no mindfulness of it at all. We say we don’t kill but why do we support butchers that slaughters these helpless farm animals. We talk about karma and how we try to avoid negative karma, how come we don’t avoid creating more karma by eating sentient beings and promoting their killing.
Killing on a massive scale is done every single day to feed the masses in the cities and many who claim to love animals but don’t really care anymore when it comes to dinner time and everyone’s hungry. We live in a time where we can make a difference by making a conscious choice to eat vegetarian as there so many choices these days so we are not missing out on anything at all. In fact, it makes eating meat a very sad excuse to increase our attachment and negative karma.
On the other hand, for those who are addicted to meat, may one to go on a gradual vegetarian diet and not go cold turkey as that would be easier on the system and work oneself towards being fully vegetarian like millions of people already are out there.
I was a big meat eater for like 55 years. There were many vegetarians who tried to convert me. It did not work because they made it like its the path to enlightenment and a religion by itself, condemning those who don’t become one.
It took a few gentle exhortations from Rinpoche to convince me its time to stop eating meat.
He asked how many chickens I have eaten in my life,like around 1,000? Wasn’t that enough? And just to satisfy my palate without caring for how I created more suffering n killing in the process.And as a dharma teacher how can i teach compassion for animals when I am eating them !
I was awakened alright and has since stopped eating all meat since a year ago and feel much better for it.If I can do it all of you can, for the sake of helping all suffering animals it is worth it.
like seriously, never, ever eat tuna again, uggggggh
or any animal for that matter.
It is SO not cool to have a dead body rotting away in your stomach
AHHHHHHH dolphins! I love love love love dolphins! When I was younger, I wanted so badly to be a marine biologist because I really wanted to study cetaceans (the group of animals that dolphins belong to). It wasn’t because I thought they were cute or whatever. It was because even when I was young, I recognise that they had their own feelings and fears (just as Rinpoche has said above). I saw how they loved one another, how they fought, how they cared for each other, how they played together…exactly like humans. If a young child can see all of that, how is it that adults are so blinded by their selfish attachments and they can’t?
How can we consciously destroy the social links that exist amongst animals, because we actually want to or we’re too lazy to stop ourselves from doing anything about it? In this way, we can see how laziness as an attitude is very destructive. Surely as humans with the mental capacity to make decisions that either benefit or harm, it is always preferable to make decisions that benefit. Being too lazy to want to make others happy, because it’s easier to make yourself happy and make them sad, is sooooo selfish.
Thank you Rinpoche. I only wish we had you here in the US so we can attend your amazing teachings, but at least I can watch them. Lama Zopa Rinpoche is my Root Guru, I know you know him. An amazing Holy Being who spends countless hours liberating animals physically and spiritually.
May you always remain until samsara ends, please always remain…
love,
Victoria
Texas