Life Wisdom: Developing Right Views to Becoming Awakened
If we want peace and safety on earth, everyone must change their mindsets and transform their thoughts of desires to carrying out acts of kindness. I’m very grateful that, lately, because of COVID-19, people have aspired and have been giving of themselves for the COVID vaccine. Because there is (the COVID virus now), we need to protect ourselves by having immunity against it. The vaccine can protect us from becoming infected with the virus, so the vaccine will help people be safe and healthy. Our health will help those around us to stay healthy, when people are healthy, our community and society will be healthy.
This pandemic is truly tenacious. Let us be grateful to medical professionals for working on the frontline. We see nurses who cannot go home because they have to work with doctors at the hospital to care for patients. However, their children are young and miss their mothers. I told my sons that there are a lot of enteroviruses outside because they’ve been ill with enteroviruses, so they know it is a tough illness. I say, there are a lot of enteroviruses outside and mommy has to go extinguish them. When there are no viruses outside, I’ll be home. The mother and son are talking, but they can’t do more, it’s like they are so far away, and it’s truly a helpless feeling. When she’s home, she’s separated by a glass door; she pressed her hand on the glass and her son put his hand on the other side of the glass as if their hands were touching.
This was what happened, and it’s such a sad feeling. The mother and son were separated by a piece of glass. Such is the pandemic we have now; it has kept people apart (from their loved ones) and it is indeed a very sad and helpless feeling. What= everyone needs to do is to awaken, repent, and abstain from eating meat. We keep social distancing for a while; not only should we do so (between people), but we should also keep away from animals by not eating their meat. Animals have their own habitats. Humans should not crave for the taste of animal flesh.
In fact, it is smelly and truly unclean. However, because we humans are deluded, people cook animal meat into something they think that is appetizing. As a fact, the environment that animals live in can smell truly unpleasant, yet humans’ minds are so deluded. This situation makes people who are awakened feel powerless, meanwhile, the deluded people have gone astray.
So, this kind of desire and craving will lead people to go on the wrong track. I often hear people say that they need meat, because eating meat makes them happy. When I hear eating meat makes people happy, my heart feels hurt. Because the happiness from eating meat is built on the ground that lives of animals are taken, which is bloodily done. The heartrending scream of animals is so piercing. People have been so deluded and ignorant, they have no idea how much karma they have created. Their want of eating meat is (primitive). They just want to enjoy a moment of satisfaction and then swallow down each piece of meat, one mouthful after another; at the same time, karma is created with each piece of meat they swallow as well. Now seeing this, haven’t we humans created karma?
See those animals that are killed; through the camera lens, we can see their eyes stare back at us humans. This is how animals are like before they are slaughtered; They open their eyes wide, terrified and helpless as they wait to be slaughtered. Indeed, animals are innocent, people with a conscience feel helpless, yet, they can do nothing about it after seeing animals have been treated like this. The climate is out of balance (in this world) because humans don’t know to love and protect the earth and cherish lives. Thus, we’ve created a lot of negative karma. This is why I often say this is the collective negative karma of living beings. That’s right, it’s our collective negative karma. For some, they repay their karmic debt slowly. Having a body, who doesn’t have ailments and pain?
Everyone experiences it. Being born in this world, we go through illness, aging, and death. Illness doesn’t strike only the old. Even young children and teenagers develop illness. As long as we have a body, we can get sick or injured. Being injured or falling ill brings about a lot of pain. How do we create a society that is peaceful and harmonious?
The best way to do this is for people to eat a vegetarian diet.
Look at how our TIMA members gather together for a convention. I’m very grateful. Every year at this time TIMA members around the world would come to Taiwan for an annual convention. This year, however, they couldn’t. So, the convention was held online. We listened to TIMA members around the world (shared how they help fight the pandemic.) One main message of their sharing was to eat a vegetarian diet. The doctors who presented all deem that eating a vegetarian diet is the way to safeguard the health and life of people.
So, the doctors shared how they promoted vegetarianism. This was the message at yesterday’s TIMA convention. Many doctors agree with this so there’s a need for them to interact with one another. Promoting vegetarianism is a fundamental way to keep people’s body healthy. When our mindset is in the correct direction, we grow in wisdom-life.
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