Animals and the Buddha

[Michael John Smith]

A video from Dharma Voices for Animals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0MWAAykFuc&t=1284s

[Michael John Smith]

"When we have acquired an awareness of the fact that all beings have been our mothers, and when this awareness is constant, the result will be that when we see meat, we will be conscious of the fact that it is the flesh of our own mothers. And, far from putting it in our mouths and eating it, we will be unable to even take it into our hands or smell its odor."
~ Shabkar Tsogdruk Rangdrol, Food of Bodhisattvas: Buddhist Teachings on Abstaining from Meat