Veg Religious Leaders Talk About Veg, Part 1: Buddhism

“The Buddha’s teaching is non-violence, no killing. So, if you follow that precept, you have to be a vegan, you have to be a vegetarian.”

“It's not just about vegetarianism, it's about spirituality, respect for life, ethical raising of animals, and coexistence. All living beings can live together. Also, in Buddhism we believe in cause and effect, so if I eat someone's flesh, I have to repay them.”

“If you borrow, you must repay. You can’t escape from debts. Remember it well. You should eat vegetarian food. Because if you eat beings’ flesh every day, oh my God, that debt will take you forever to pay. If you eat its flesh, you owe that animal, and if you owe someone, you have to pay them back.”

“Animals are like ourselves. They also appreciate kindness; they also fear death and avoid suffering; and also desire happiness. I think we are human beings – we understand what is suffering and what is happiness – and also, we are advanced enough to understand that the animals have that feeling as well.”

“If you have visited a slaughterhouse and witnessed the way people kill chickens and cows, it is certain you will no longer be able to eat meat.”

“Most religions talk about hell like [it’s] the most horrifying suffering realm, but I can’t imagine there is something more horrifying and painful, so-called hell, than those horrifying experiences when you are lined up in the slaughterhouse. It’s just heartbreaking. So, we need to actually see those things, how we humans are actually causing so much trouble to fellow sentient beings.”

“We have to straighten up our diet once again. For example, the notion that we cannot survive unless we eat meat is wrong. The system or function of our body can be sustained sufficiently by eating only cereals and vegetables.”

“[…] Killing living beings not only harms those animals, but also damages the value, morality, and nobility of a human being who follows the Buddha’s teaching, as a disciple of the Buddha, and as a son or daughter of Buddha, who should be practicing compassion, mercy. […].”

“Genuine equality really needs to begin from vegetarianism, and genuine compassion needs to begin from animals.”

“We want to live, but we take other beings’ lives to sustain our own. Is that logical? Is it fair? […] There is no compassion, no justice, no logic. […] We must reconsider our eating habits.”

“The only way to have peace in our world is not eating the flesh of living beings. Abstain from killing and save lives, then our world will be at peace, and our blessing in this life will increase, and our journey of life will become brighter.”

“It just takes one second to decide stopping. It doesn’t make any huge chaotic change in our life: It’s just we eat something else. It is so simple, it can be done instantly. So, less effort for the very big result! Ethically, for the animals and other poor people, for the planet, for our own health. It seems, with the sensible mind, I should say it is not an extreme perspective; it is a most reasonable and compassionate point of view.”

“I fully, fully embrace this call to all religious leaders to try their very best to convey the importance of abandoning all killing, abandoning all harm so that we can at least begin to heal this planet, or at the very least heal ourselves.”

Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan): “Your Reverend Holinesses, Highly Reverend Priests, Priestesses, Monks, Nuns of different faiths, my best wishes and humble prayers for Your wellness in God’s Mercy.

Please tell Your believers this truth. Tell them that we must change. Because WE CANNOT SAY THAT WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD IF WE MURDER OTHER CHILDREN OF GOD. WE CANNOT CLAIM TO BE THE FUTURE BUDDHA IF WE MASSACRE OTHER FUTURE BUDDHAS whether in human form or in animal form. WE CANNOT SAY WE LOVE GOD AND THEN DESTROY HIERS CREATION RELENTLESSLY. AND NOW WE ARE DESTROYING HIERS PLANET.

Please teach this again and again to Your trusting followers who look up to You, to Your Holinesses and Reverends as icons of compassion and saintly love. In God’s Love, thank You.”

- List of Veg Buddhist Leaders & Monastics

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