Sunday, March 12, 2017

At Ease with Equality


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I think the finding of truth isn’t about attempting perfection or seeking enlightenment or taking a ‘spiritual path in life’, it’s about getting used to change when circumstances demand it, and being at ease with the need-to-change. Change keeps alive a questioning of those things others aren’t bothered about.

         

For vegans, the most bothering thing I can think of is the routine abuse of sensitive and sentient beings. The reason it’s so bothering is that all are innocent and all badly abused. As a vegan, I want to expand my sense of responsibility over all this, firstly to penetrate deeply the reason why our fellow humans are hard.



This translates to an ability of humans to be careless and cruel to their animal slaves. And it’s confusing to see nice people being hard. We all know how to treat our nearest and dearest, with love and affection, etc. But why stop there? Why stop anywhere, with humans, animals, environment? Is there anything that doesn’t deserve our affection? When it just happens to pass us by?

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