{"id":864,"date":"2009-10-13T09:40:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/10\/buddhism-quote-of-the-day-vegetarian-yoga-eat-meat.html"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:40:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T09:40:13","slug":"buddhism-quote-of-the-day-vegetarian-yoga-eat-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/10\/buddhism-quote-of-the-day-vegetarian-yoga-eat-meat.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist Quote of the Day: Do You Need To Be A Vegetarian To Practice Meditation and Yoga Properly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/buddhism_compassion_eat_meat_vegetarian.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"buddhism_compassion_eat_meat_vegetarian.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/124\/import\/assets_c\/2009\/10\/buddhism_compassion_eat_meat_vegetarian-thumb-400x400-8504.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 20px 20px;float: right\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span>by <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0861715160\/\">Ethan Nichtern<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both yoga and <a href=\"http:\/\/theidproject.org\/\">Buddhist meditation<\/a> philosophy ask practitioners to refrain from the act of killing &#8211; whether directly or indirectly &#8211; as much as possible. In the American <a href=\"http:\/\/yogajournal.com\/\">yoga<\/a> communities I am part of, vegetarianism is fairly prevalent. In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhala.org\/\">Buddhist<\/a> communities, somehow, not as much (though some Buddhist practitioners are certainly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegetariantimes.com\/\">vegetarian<\/a>). Then I came across this eye opening quote from the Angulimala <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accesstoinsight.org\/tipitaka\/mn\/mn.086.than.html\">Sutra<\/a> (discourse). Read the powerful quote, and then share your thoughts on the following question: do mindful and compassionate people eat meat? Do you eat meat? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p><font>(Pig Buddha T-shirt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zazzle.com\/pig_buddha_tshirt-235745133597224343\">Zazzle.com<\/a><\/font><font>)<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n&#8220;There is not a single being, wandering in the chain&#8230;of endless and beginningless <a href=\"http:\/\/pagina.jccm.es\/pics\/adiccion\/consumo3.jpg\">samarsa<\/a> [cyclical confusion], that has not been your mother or your sister. An individual, born as a dog, may afterward become your father. Each and every being is like an actor playing on the stage of life. One&#8217;s own flesh and the flesh of others is the same flesh. Therefore, the enlightened ones eat no meat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Angulimala Sutra<br \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Food-Bodhisattvas-Buddhist-Teachings-Abstaining\/dp\/1590301161\">Food of Bodhisattvas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ethan Nichtern Both yoga and Buddhist meditation philosophy ask practitioners to refrain from the act of killing &#8211; whether directly or indirectly &#8211; as much as possible. In the American yoga communities I am part of, vegetarianism is fairly prevalent. 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