Eating Meat – The war against our own flesh and Body

Why eating meat is important. Welcome to the rustic Honora Zen Monastery in Switzerland. We eat what is served.

Contemplation - Eating Meat

When you have to walk somewhere on a dark night, it is very difficult to clearly see the path ahead of you. You do not know whether the way will consist of mountains, deep gullies, swamps, thorny forests or rock-covered ground.

One by one you may have to encounter and traverse each of these difficult terrains. But if you do not stop and continue walking carefully throughout the night, eventually the dim light of dawn will appear in the east and gradually become brighter. As the sun rises, the path ahead will become clearer and the difficult passages will become easier to traverse. it is similar when practicing meditation. Whatever difficulties you face at the beginning, you should learn to endure them all.

Whether you are beset by wandering thoughts, overcome with drowsiness, or aggravated by pains in your legs or back, you should never allow them to distract you from the meditation. If you continuously persevere, then suddenly your firm hold on the meditation will appear before you as a wide and boundless path. Being able to see the path distinctly, you should make the firm resolve to swiftly advance. Now, while keeping a firm hold on the meditation, you can confidently allow the mind to be as it is. In due time your original nature will shine forth as brilliantly as the rising sun.

Wisdom

While contemplating the question you should be as earnest as someone trying to extinguish a fire burning on his head; as a thirsty man in search of water; as an infant thinking of his mother's breast; as an old man worrying about his lineage dying out; or as a cat intent on catching a mouse.

How great is our feeling of despair when we cannot find a secure refuge and stand at a crossroad completely lost and disoriented?