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17-09-2014, 12:58 PM
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Originally Posted by kris
By being a vegan, I avoid any deliberate harm to other living creatures with whom I share the world, which I think is the right way to live. In my view, personal growth is only possible by right living.
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An excellent and insightful post!
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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17-09-2014, 01:05 PM
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And another major incentive for veganism is the catastrophic pollution, waste of precious natural resources and environmental damage caused by livestock production.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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18-09-2014, 12:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Baile
Spiritual development is not about what you eat. It's about personal truth: being in alignment with what your inner voice is telling you to do. If you inner voice is telling you to go vegan, then that's your path.
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Those who behead innocent persons in the middle-east are in alignment with their inner voice. They seem to be doing what their inner voice is telling them. Is their personal truth helping them in their spiritual development? Or, are they already spiritually developed? |
18-09-2014, 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by kris
Those who behead innocent persons in the middle-east are in alignment with their inner voice. They seem to be doing what their inner voice is telling them. Is their personal truth helping them in their spiritual development? Or, are they already spiritually developed?
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What in the world does that have to do with the benefits of a vegan diet, lol? |
18-09-2014, 04:41 PM
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What in the world does that have to do with the benefits of a vegan diet, lol?
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I was trying to understand the notion of personal truth since it came up in this discussion. I was hoping you would care to explain since you brought it up, not that you have to. |
19-09-2014, 01:14 PM
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Does anyone else reading this thread think spiritual development is about personal truth. I have read such an assertion made in many places but I confess I have never understood it. I would like to see some rational justification for the concept of personal truth and will change my views about it if called for. But for now, I have concluded that personal truth as an idea is intellectually hollow, philosophically shallow and spiritually bankrupt. Perhaps I am missing something about this concept.
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19-09-2014, 01:39 PM
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Its about a higher truth rather than a personal truth. A personal truth could (and does) encompass anything.
Truth is like climbing a ladder, the higher you climb, the clearer you see and the more you understand.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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19-09-2014, 04:53 PM
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What you say makes sense, knight. Traditional teachers (gurus) in India have maintained that each person is capable of understanding reality at a level depending on the prerequisites he meets. This idea goes by the term adhikAra bheda which means difference related to what you have done before, i.e. your karma. Thus a traditional guru will adjust his instructions according to the qualifications of the student, in other words, his capacity to understand.
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19-09-2014, 05:22 PM
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Yes, much of scripture is written on two levels - the exoteric and the esoteric.
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All this talk of religion, but it's how you live your life that is the all-important thing.
If you set out each day to do all the goodness and kindness that you can, and to do no harm to man or beast, then you are walking the highest path.
And when your time is up, if you can leave the earth a better place than you found it, then yours will have been a life well lived.
http://holy-lance.blogspot.com
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23-09-2014, 12:44 AM
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Don't soak your grains or nuts, IP6 is very beneficial to health.
hopescience.com/ip6/
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