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**topbonusescod** · 01-27-2011, 10:25 PM

I read last night that the Dalai Lama eats meat 'only' ever other day, apparently because his doctors have told him he needs it.

Hello milly,

Maybe I will sound rude but leave the Dalai Lama issue about meat. Just do what you think is good as a discernment practice. If giving up meat makes you feel good... Great! If not... its great too. The Buddha Dhamma practice is beyond eating or not eating meat.

I quit meat because I know I am pushing forward the meat industry. We do not need meat to be healthy. But there can be some exceptions as the case of the Dalai Lama. I don't know. Meat is not needed in our diet. We evolve from apes and apes do not eat meat. Our metabolism works well (maybe better) without meat. So, to eat or not to eat meat is a very personal choice. A choice we do, and it is so because we do not need it. I have stopped eating meat for 23 years.

01-27-2011, 10:25 PM	#21
topbonusescod Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 459 Senior Member	I read last night that the Dalai Lama eats meat 'only' ever other day, apparently because his doctors have told him he needs it. Hello milly, Maybe I will sound rude but leave the Dalai Lama issue about meat. Just do what you think is good as a discernment practice. If giving up meat makes you feel good... Great! If not... its great too. The Buddha Dhamma practice is beyond eating or not eating meat. I quit meat because I know I am pushing forward the meat industry. We do not need meat to be healthy. But there can be some exceptions as the case of the Dalai Lama. I don't know. Meat is not needed in our diet. We evolve from apes and apes do not eat meat. Our metabolism works well (maybe better) without meat. So, to eat or not to eat meat is a very personal choice. A choice we do, and it is so because we do not need it. I have stopped eating meat for 23 years.
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