Can a truly spiritual person eat meat?
One of the main characteristics of being Spiritual is 'Compassion'. As spiritual development matures, compassion and other good qualities become more and more manifest. As the character becomes uplifted and purified the behaviour i.e speech and actions automatically also become uplifted and purified. Therefore a compassionate diet is a sign of genuine spirituality.
Individuals may still be basically good even if they are consuming meat. However when compassion blossoms more fully advanced souls refrain from the inherently cruel meat eating diet. Furthermore the eating of flesh lowers the vibrations and pollutes the soul thus represents a negative influence on the individuals' true happiness and spiritual development. This is a metaphysical and spiritual fact as taught by great spiritual beings throughout the ages and can be seen as self-evident by sincere people who are not deaf to their conscience. |
I was a vegetarian for 23 years, about a year or so ago I started eating meat again. Does that mean I changed? Well kind of I needed to ground which starting to eat definitely helped with.
I'm I less compassionate this year than last? No not that I have noticed, I have felt more in tune with nature tbh. |
Yes. I'll simply use one example : indigenous peoples of North America .
Some very connected to Nature, Spirit World , eating meat. I used to believe (brainwashed?) that I had to be vegetarian to be spiritual. Logically, if my spirituality is so fragile that a piece of meat would ruin it, maybe I wasn't all that spiritual anyway. That's when I slew the sacred cow (and had a nice steak :wink: ). |
The Dalai Lama.
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I had a dream where Jesus fed me a well cooked piece of steak that was so tasty and looked so appetizing and I woke up still chewing.
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This is a complex issue and while I'm sympathetic to it (I eat fish but no meat) it's not as straightforward as saying truly spiritual and compassionate people don't eat meat. People who are more awake to the exprerience of pain and suffering often try to reduce their contribution to it and that is a wonderful thing, but it's all a matter of consciousness. Some people may do wonderful good in the world but are conditioned into eating meat and it's so natural for them that they don't question it. Some people have such severe stomach/health issues that eating meat is their only option if they can't eat vegetarian sources of protein - this can be argued as having compassion for oneself in giving the body what it needs. And of course some people argue that meat can be produced humanely to reduce the suffering produced in factory farms, which opens up a whole can of worms of its own.
As I said, a complex issue, and one that often provokes strong feelings. It's good to be mindful of one's feelings about the matter. At the end of the day there is never a right or wrong answer, or any answer at all really in this case, apart from doing what feels ultimately right for each person. |
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Hi Starlight, |
The animal is already dead, and ready to be served. Might as well use its body as a source of energy rather than let it go to waste.
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That would be logical if talking about roadkill but sadly the majority of animals are bred and raised to be killed for human consumption. If people stppped eating meat overnight, there would be no need for factory farms. It's supply and demand- people want meat, animals are killed to get it and most suffer horribly. This is the foundation of vegetarianism. |
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