Please save a Turkey…but please don’t eat a vegetarian!!!

November 26, 2013
If you have an extra room in your heart, please do not eat the turkey during the family gatherings on this Thanksgiving Day… ~Jendhamuni

All beings tremble before violence. All fear death. All love life. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? ~Dhammapada, the Buddha


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    Pieter Hibma

    November 26, 2013

    Live and let live fight for their environment.

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    Jesse H

    November 26, 2013

    I'm having London broil this year.

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    prakash b

    November 26, 2013

    Nature has enough to feed human
    I.can say sos being a vegetaian from ancesters
    Veggie has the greatest variety
    In my part of country thrr are 1000.of veggie dishes
    Some lines of experiance
    Nt to hurt any one
    The way you think you become like that
    The way you look you become like that
    The way you drink you become like that
    The way you eat you become like that
    The way you talk you become like that
    Life is precious if it cant speak does nt mean it becomes our favourite dish they too have feelings an family wd loved ones
    Tx sos again not to hurt anyone jst my views

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    Mark Veatch

    November 26, 2013

    Anybody. Want. 2. Join. Me. I'm. In. Louisville

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    Timothy Mckiness

    November 26, 2013

    Hi Jendhamuni. .. Be kind everyone. Most Buddhist are vegetarians be kind it's our tradition so enjoy the holidays it is one of the best holidays for peace and love and friendship happy Thanksgiving to everyone. P.S. I'm quite the wolf I'll be having fish and Turkey sorry

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    Reg Dawn

    November 26, 2013

    Yes, eat vegetarian and save the poor animals…

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    Kai Saffron

    November 26, 2013

    But… but…
    It says "Eat A  vegetarian".
    Isn't that called "cannibalism"..?

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    Kai Saffron

    November 26, 2013

    I read it and then re-read that sign ten times!
    I hope +Jendhamuni Sos isn't advocating cannibalism, but if anybody can convince me of it's dietary merits, it would be her…

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    Timothy Mckiness

    November 26, 2013

    Jendhamuni this is worth all the laughs have a beautiful day-—:)))))) Tim

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    Timothy Mckiness

    November 26, 2013

    OMG this is so funny!! I envy you really..!? It is so wonderful to feel that you are smiling again…. Your friend Tim

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    Dakshinamoorthi Raja Ganesan

    November 26, 2013

    I fully endorse. It reminds me of two couplets from Tirukkural, a 2000 year old Tamil classic ethical treatise: 
    "All living beings will salute with folded hands one who won't kill and won't take meat"
    '"Think of yourself in the [terrifying] presence of one who is stronger than you when you impose yourself on someone weaker than you"

    And, Vallalar, a Tamil savant who lived some 200 years ago, who said:
    "I languish whenever I encounter a languishing plant".
    Yes, his philosophy of love for all sentient beings encompassed the plant kingdom. 

    Again, some 45 years ago, I had a colleague, a Sanskrit teacher, who used to perform some ritual or other almost every other day: One day when I asked him what that day's ritual about he said: Plants bear seeds in the form of fruits not for man to pluck and eat but for their own reproduction and multiplication. Man disrupts this process. Today's ritual is an effort at expiation for this disruption.  When I asked him, 'Then how can we survive? He replied we must limit ourselves to picking up the fruits that ripen and fall off the ground.

    I followed up: Does this not in ultimate effect constitute a  disruption of the process of multiplication, anyway? He replied, "This ritual is an expiation precisely for such disruption".

    That gave me a glimpse into the spirit of non-violence that permeated the consciousness of the rishis [sages and savants] who lived in the forests of ancient India. One can savour their life-world in Rabindranath Tagore's [an Indian Nobel Laureate -Literature's] 'The Religion of India'

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    Mohamed elnaggar

    November 26, 2013

    Yes, eat vegetarian and save the poor animals…god help all of us

  27. Reply  

    Timothy Mckiness

    November 26, 2013

    Hahahahaha !!!!!! Jendhamuni may you have a wonderful thanksgiving.

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