2007年1月9日星期二

A letter to my frind Chrys and The Rationality of Vegetarainism Part I

Dear Chrys,

i just wrote an article in Chinese on my blog called: The Irrationality of Vegetarianism. i didn't put any logical scientific thing, but just described how a vege diet can be a taste of a new life, coz life doesn't need to be "right" in a scientific way to be worthy or wonderful. People are doing so many crazy things just to make themself happy without considering any consequence, but when they were told to be a vegetarian, they immediately want to be scientific. We are nothing to do with the mechanism of this body. Life is an beginning-less and endless song to be sung by those who dare to be different and musical in their behaviour, because this is what people really afraid of knowingly or unknowingly, behind a diet: a related new life which is challenging to their habits, getting rid of the old, be out of their comfortable zone, isolation, etc, and they will find endless excuses to not listen to the voice and the melody of their heart and soul.

In my mind an article called The Rationality of the Vegetarianism will follow up the first one, and just then you sent your article today. I am sure the Universal Mind (paramatma) told you to do that :-)

i wish you again a happy new year and may the universal music playing beautifully in your heart. Thank you so much!

om shanti

your friend forever
Yama


Singer Sir Paul McCartney:
"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

"If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty."


Albert Einstein The great scientist Albert Einstein:
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival of life of Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."

The great Russian author Leo Tolstoy:
"This is dreadful! Not only the suffering and death of the animals, but by eating meat man suppresses in himself, unnecessarily, the highest spiritual capacity – that of sympathy and pity towards living creatures like himself – and by violating his own feelings, becomes cruel."









Carl Lewis

Hippocrates, the father of medicine:
"Your food shall be your remedies, and your remedies shall be your food".



Some Famous Vegetarians

Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, Leonardo da Vinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Voltaire, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, Richard Wagner, Paul McCartney, Tobey Maguire, Natalie Portman, Alicia Silverstone, Albert Schweitzer, Dalai Lama, Rabindranath Tagore, George Bernard Shaw, Carl Lewis, Martina Navratilova, and the list goes on...

5 条评论:

Shan 说...

我觉得,素食是无法向人规劝的。不论你举多少个著名吃素者的例子,多少慈悲者的先例,抑或大量的屠宰场的血腥图片,还是会有更多的“科学的”研究来证明适量的肉食是维持机体的必要。
为了减肥,为了教规,或者是为了健康,保持绝对的素食,对还未素食者来说,是不可能想象或者坚持的。
一年前,我也看过有关饲养畸形的家禽、毫无人性地屠宰牛羊等报道;也被学佛的朋友从慈悲角度来感化,但我还是宁可走上街头去游行示威为临死的动物或不道德的饲养方式争取权益,也不愿意(简直就是不忍心)想象如果今后没有吃海鲜的生活。

直到有一天,我突然感觉到我的身体不需要肉食了,至少在很长一段时间里都不会需要肉食,我通过很详细地想象,发觉自己竟然对没有鱼虾的生活毫无畏惧了。

我是指,欲望消失了。既没有对素食本身的欲望(不管这类欲望曾是好奇,还是利益),也没有对肉食的欲望(不管这种欲望曾经如此强烈,而且回忆与想象这类美味也能够引起快感)。而是,它突然消失了,好像雨停止了一样——雨自然会停止,太阳自然会出现,没有任何惊奇之处。

我不知道原因。如果,我还是觉得可以归咎于一年多的瑜伽练习(我想,多多少少这个成分是不能低估的——从外到内),还有对自己人生态度的反省与思考(从苛求到接受自然)。
有人问我,你为什么素食了?
我说,不为什么啊。
他说,总要有个原因吧?
我说,真的没有啊。

所以嘛,我觉得,关于素食,是没有什么道理可讲的。完全就是全盘接受这种自然而然的变化好了。

Susan 说...

Yama老师,你的blog现在越来越丰富了,内容也越来越广。读你的blog感受很深刻,它也逐渐把yoga的灵魂注入我的体内。
我会更加密切的关注你的blog和yoga学习。

Yama 说...

我仍然相信这是第七个大饼和前六个大饼的故事。“有一天,我突然感觉到我的身体不需要肉食了,”这就是那让你感觉饱了的第七个大饼。果树的生长需要耐性,生命中美好的、有价值的事物也一样。没有任何努力会白费。努力,本身就是一种喜悦的生命的表达,而不是获得喜悦的手段。

Shan 说...

那你的意思是,前六个大饼总有代谢消失的时刻,届时就意味着欲望的回归?
而停留在第七个大饼时的那种变化是暂时,是以之前的真实性与惯性为基础的?
而所谓的努力,依然是指需要克制与主观的约束,而新一轮的第7只大饼终究并不会到来。是这样么?

Yama 说...

shan, 我的意思是说, 没有莫名其妙发生的事, 那都是一种积累, 即便我们忘了或没有看到那种积累, 或认为没有道理可讲. 至少, 我的观点是这样的.