Why be a vegetarian

Why be a vegetarian ? This is a very common question which has been asked thousands of times by thousands of hundred of people in today's world. Many answers and opinions by many different masters with one very common identity , which is known as the universal loving compassion towards all sentient beings. 

As quoted  by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, and his explanation and wisdom words for being a vegetarian.Not only will you practice compassion for all sentient beings, but you will decrease the resources you used up. It takes about 100,000 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of beef but only 750 liters of water to produce 1 kilogram of wheat.

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Buddha, Who are You ?

When someone asked the Sakyamurni Buddha, who are you ? are you the all almighty God of the universe? 

Gautama, the person who became the historical Buddha of our time, He replied with his smiles, " No I am not the god"  

The person asked if you are not the all almighty God then what are you?  The Lord Buddha again replied with his smiles, " I am the awaken"

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Who is your enemy

Our anger is our actual enemy. It is an obstacle that cuts us off from the cause of higher states of rebirth and the definitive excellence that is liberation. 

If we do not tame it, then outer enemies will simply multiply. They will increase to the same extent that we try to overpower them. And they could present a danger to our lives and to our ability to keep any of the three sets of vows (individual liberation, bodhisattva, and tantric) we may have taken.

We are the ones who make one another into enemies, they can proliferate without limit. By creating such projections, we are engaging in actions that are detrimental. Why is this so? Because there is not one living being who has not been our mother or father, and therefore they should all be the objects if our compassion. 

On the other hand, there is not one living being who has not been our enemy. In this way, all living beings are equally our friends and enemies, so being attached to some and feeling hatred for others makes no sense. 

Through a mind that sees this equality, we should tame the enemy of our own anger with an army of great compassion. This is the practice of a true bodhisattva.

Quated by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa.

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A wisdom vs unconditional loves

A snake was injured by it's predictor and lying motionless on the ground. A compassionate young man he saw it and picks the snake up and brought it home to feed and nurtured him with his loving kindness and compassion as this is an unconditional universal love towards all living beings. 

Day by day gone, the snake gets it back and growing to a full state of good health. The young man seems to be very happy and honored for what has done for a good deed and good meritorious karma by rescuing and nurturing the snake.

Unfortunately, one day the snake bites him and injecting its deadly venom to the one who has saved its life. The young Samaritan man was completely horrified and in pain, and his body internal organs are beginning to shut down and the poor young man is very helpless and he is dies soon. The dying young man asked the snake with his final words, " my dear snake, why are you doing this to me ? 

Can't you see how much I have been taking care and nurturing you? When you were injured, no one has come to rescue you but it was me , why you are still treating and biting me ? The snake replied to the dying young man, " you know very well, I was a venomous snake when you picked me up, and you know you are responsible for your owned actions, and I am merely a snake and bites and injections of venomous poison is my nature and instinct" 

This story and morals are telling us when someone's ignorance and egoistic and without wisdom , it doesn't help even though with your unconditional loves and loving compassion and bodhichitta kindness.

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Endangered wild animal of the Northern Paradise 2

This are the common animal species can be spotted at the high altitude in the Himalaya and Tibet plateau. The snow monkeys are not fear of the presence of peoples but rather aggressive when approach, another unknown beautiful and colorful bird is resting nearby. 

The natural beauty is the mother gems that she is nurturing and providing us with clean air, water, other minerals and more important is life can be found on this planet. If we do not treasure and appreciate these magnificent jewels of the nature and one day all this will soon be destroyed by our owned hands. 

It's never been too late to love our mother nature and it always starts with us and to preserve this fragile ecosystem. Especially  the Tibetan Antelopes that living on the high altitude of the paradise of Tibet had been illegal poaching to almost extinction by the poachers for its high demands of its furs for today's world fashion garments. 

By the very tough enforcement  of the government of China and its conservation and education programs, the total numbers of this highly endangered species are currently on the rise and roaming freely at the top of this Paradise.  

Endangered wild animal of the Northern Paradise 1

These are some of the common species at the high altitude of Himalaya and especially the Yaks are playing an important roles to the local, Yaks can be found everywhere and used it as a traditional transportation tools and as well providing milk to the local farmers. 

The antelopes of the Himalayan had once almost becoming extinction and through conservation and education programs and the number of antelopes are increasing these days. The natural is the mother gems that she is nurturing and providing us with clean air, water, minerals and more important is life on this planet. 

If we do not treasure and appreciate these magnificent jewels of the nature and one day all this will soon be destroyed by our owned hands. It's never been too late to love our mother nature and it always starts with us, so let go green.

Tibet a Pearl of the Northern Paradise

Tibet is a mysterious place or Paradise on earth, not only because of its traditional mystery threatening culture, its lifestyle and unique Tibetan Buddhism alone have strongly inspired many people in the western world today.  A classical iconic person will be the Nobel Prize winner the 14th Dalai Lama , who is effortlessly carrying his message of universal love, compassion and non violent to the different ethnic of people, religions, culture.

These pictures of the paradise on earth are taken in year 2013 and it completely took your breaths away from such a beautiful heaven on earth and perhaps what peoples called it the Shangri-La. 

Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, and particularly a mythical Himalayan imaginary land depicted in the novel Lost Horizon (1933) by James Hilton, he described this is the telltale fiction of the peoples living in the Shangri-La are a remote beautiful imaginary place where life approaches perfection. 

Shangri-La  forever happy land, isolated from our world and the people living at the Shangri-La are immortal and they live beyond our ordinary lifespan and slowly aging process.  Who doesn't want to be part of this legendary of near perfection of immortality.