Compassion for the killers … (09/12/14)
If we are going to change this world for the better — if we are going to walk away from the precipice of human extinction over which our own species is currently teetering, we simply must learn to exude Compassion for all murderers …
Killers are not evil people. Rather, killers are merely lost, sick Souls — all of them striving for the Light, yet all of them groping madly for the same with ignorant acts violence … Thereby they remain fully lost — wasting their precious lives; spinning dizzy and confused in the darkness.
To liberate this dynamic of dis-ease, we must do one of two things …
First, non-vegans (a.k.a “meat-eaters”) must awaken to the humbling fact that they are no better than the dolphin killers in Japan, the elephant poachers in Kenya, the whale-butcherers in the Faroe Islands or the dog-flesh merchants in China. They must awaken to their own misdeeds and realize that pigs & cows & chickens & geese are just as worthy beings as dogs or cats or horses or their fellow humans … They must awaken to the simple FACT that “farm animals” have just as much a right to live a long & healthy life — free from confinement, torture & murder — as do their own children.
And second, we vegans simply MUST stop attacking non-vegans. For when we choose to lambast & berate & condemn & criticize those who are obviously warped in their thinking, confused in their beliefs, or simply ignorant of the Truth facing the vast majority of the animal kingdom today, we will NOT thereby diminish the suffering of our animal friends. Indeed, attacking meat-eaters will actually encourages them to defend their violent choices and continue supporting the cruelty that is required by their current preferences of palate.
Instead, to do real Good for our animal Friends who are currently being enslaved & persecuted, we vegans — we who have chosen to cherish the rights of ALL beings sentient, simply MUST have the courage to not only boldly stand between meat-eaters and their victims, but also to simultaneously send those same non-vegans sincere & gentle & heartfelt forgiveness while we do so.
After all, they too — just like our animal cousins — are members of our greater Family.
Amen … Let it be so.
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