Food as fuel

950:

Early in the day the rot sets in.  We go to a shop,  buy what we laughingly call ‘food’ (‘animal-secreted’ or ‘animal-executed’).  The negative vibrations alone should be toxic enough to warn us,  but by chemically poisoning ourselves many times a day with our usual foods,  they have a drag-down effect on just about everything we do.

For those of us past teenage years,  it’s likely we can’t operate our bodies as we’d like to - we no longer run for the bus painlessly or do things we know we should be capable of doing.  Both mentally and physically,  we become more disabled as we grow older. It’s not just down to the food we eat. Our guilt,  or the suppression of it,  drags us down too,  and yet we keep ‘doing’ those things which make us feel guilty.  We think it will go away if we do these same things regularly enough,  until we don’t notice it anymore … but it springs back.  The mind isn’t easily fooled for very long.  It comes back to this matter of food and the amount of time we spend getting it and consuming it.  The subject of ‘food’ is difficult to escape, especially when it comes up in conversation. The worst of it is that it leads onto other things,  which we know don’t add to the quality of our lives. But still there’s a reluctance to change - we’d rather stick with what we know.

If we don’t adopt vegan principles into our life,  it’s likely we won’t be able to do anything very meaningful,  or achieve anything that’s really satisfying. Good intentions and fine aims are our very lifeblood. So, first things first - we need to atone for our ‘little crimes against animals’ otherwise it will always weigh us down.  What we do (by proxy) to animals,  every day,  at every meal,  compromises all the other good stuff we do.

Ironically,  we can’t get to know this because we can’t allow ourselves to believe it.  This mixture of guilt, reluctance and impotence,  means omnivores carry a heavy weight with them all the time.  And that blinds them to the sequence of events unfolding before them. Without a feel for sequence, by not following the logical sequences, we can’t make any ‘great leap forward’. In fact there’s so little ‘leaping’ done that we might as well call it ‘stagnation’.