--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Hugo" <richardhughes103@> > > wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "John" <jr_esq@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Now you're sounding like Prabhupada of ISKCON. > > > > > > > > > That's cool, I go to the Hare Krishna restaurant every time > > > I'm in London. Excellent tucker, and they chant at the food > > > when they're cooking it. You don't get service like that at > > > MacDonalds! > > > > In Berkely, California the ISKCON folks offer the food for free as > > part of their proselytizing efforts. The chant is a vedic method > to > > turn the food into prasada, or as an offering to Krishna. Thus, > > eating this food becomes wholesome, or divine. > > > I go to the local temple here on Sunday nights when they have their > feasts...and they're also free. > > At the risk of sounding like a mood-maker, I must say that I have > consistent transcending experiences eating their food and, yes, I > attribute that to the chanting they do over the food they prepare, > the offering of it to Krishna, and the fact that monks prepare it.
No mood-making there, I get this too. Not very time but enough to make me wonder. Perhaps the music they play helps? I think it's a clear sign they must have something profound to offer. > > > > > > > > Also, he said that > > > > meat eating is the main cause of wars throughout the world. > > > > > > Is that because most veggies are too weak to pick up guns? > > > > No. Meat-eating causes high pitta aggravation among the people, > thus > > making them extremely susceptible to violence. Also, according to > > Prabhupada, meat-eating causes the bad karma of violence, which the > > animals experience during their death. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" > > <shempmcgurk@> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I acknowledge and fully subscribe to the maxim that the ways > > and > > > > > means of karma are unfathomable. > > > > > > > > > > Nevertheless, I cannot help thinking of something after > having > > > seen > > > > > one of Alex Baldwin's excellent PETA public service videos > > which > > > I > > > > am > > > > > sure most of you have seen. I'm talking about the ones in > > which > > > he > > > > > narrates hidden footage of operatives inside slaughterhouses, > > > > farms, > > > > > labs, etc. > > > > > > > > > > One I saw a few days ago (sorry, I lost the link) contained > > > footage > > > > > and narrative that informs the viewer that most of the > > hamburger > > > > meat > > > > > we eat in the U.S. comes from dairy cows who, no longer > needed > > to > > > > > produce milk because of age, go to slaughter. And, of > course, > > > > > horrible footage of cramped quarters in transporting said > beast > > > and > > > > > how they slaughter them are enough to make you lose your meal. > > > > > > > > > > But even if the daily cows were treated wonderfully in life > and > > > > > death, I have to wonder this: milk is a complete and whole > food > > > > that > > > > > we are provided with in order to nourish us and give us > life. > > > > Dairy > > > > > cows are, in effect, like our mothers. We then, in turn, eat > > our > > > > > mothers when they are no longer useful to us. > > > > > > > > > > Forget about karma; even on a common sense, intuitive level, > > > > doesn't > > > > > that just not jibe? Isn't this intuitively yucky to even the > > > most > > > > > jaded meat-eating redneck? > > > > > > > > > > Millions upon millions of cows are treated as such every > year. > > > > This > > > > > has got to be one hell of a build-up of karma. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
