the SPIRIT OF SHARING



San Jose vegetarian House, CA. USA June 30. 1994.

This world doesn't belong to us. It does, but many people don't share. They don't like to share. Actually this world belongs to everyone including the animals. That's why we follow the vegetarian policy. This world came into existence due to the force of the thinking power of all the beings that exist on this planet . We wanted this place, so it exists, including the animals. But when we came into this world, we thought it belonged to us. Everyone thought it belonged to them. Therefore, we started to get rid of the others - the red, the black, the yellow and whatever. The red wanted to get rid of the white. The white got rid of the black, et cetera. Then the black, white and yellow got rid of the animals, et cetera. We have forgotten that we are co-owners, not the sole owners of this world.

That is why we should not kill animals, we should not eat them. Of course, especially, we should not kill any other human beings. But in the name of politics, national love or religion, sometimes, we kill. We justify our killing with many glorious excuses. Actually, this is not the right thing, because we kill today and then the next life we'll be killed.

Therefore, war always continues within our world. Then we always wonder "why." There is nothing to wonder. When we sow something, we reap the fruit thereof. Even the Bible says so: As you sow, so shall you reap. For those of us who have not suffered effects under war or any other conflicts, that means we have not sown the seed of violence. So if we continue to keep it that way, even if we do not practice any meditation, even if we do not worship God - I mean officially, registered-wise -- then we will be born again as safe, secure, healthy human beings. Because we do not have the seed of damage, of war, of violence. If we can remind each other not to kill animals, then of course how could we kill human beings, and war will eliminate itself from the root.