The World Peace Diet

VegInspiration. No Religion Without Love

“There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to beasts as well as man it is all a sham.”   —Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

World Peace Yoga Conference. Please Join Us!

ENVIRONMENTALISTS:  For the earth lover in you come & enjoy cutting edge classes, teachers & conversations to understand & make the connections between our economy, global warming, pollution & poverty in the world & what we can do about it.

FOODIES: For the vegan in you come enjoy delicious world class vegan food while dining with well known vegan authors, speakers & friends and learn about cooking, nutrition, gardening, music and more.  Click here for the World Peace Menu!

ANIMAL LOVERS: For the animal in you come enjoy conversations with other like-minded & kindred souls and learn with inspired teachers about the connection between animals and the environment, world peace, compassionate living, sacred activism and more.

YOGIS: For the guru in you get activated on & off the mat by yoga masters teaching the pure essence of yoga, including asana, chakras & meditation.

When YOU register for the "World Peace Yoga Conference" in addition to experiencing cutting-edge classes, world-class food and soul-stirring inspiration YOU are directly contributing to educational opportunities that spread the message of a "Practical Blueprint for World Peace".

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Join us at Grailville, a spiritual retreat center with fresh country air, organic gardens, hiking trails, woods, ponds, creeks, a labyrinth and more for the World Peace Yoga Conference.  Click here to view photos of Grailville.  The W.P.Y.C. is a weekend event with national & internationally known teachers, musicians, authors, artists and chefs unfolding the path to world peace.   Delicious, compassionate and diverse meal choices are the nourishment for your days here at Grailville. Exquisitely prepared and served by the attentive staff of World Peace Restaurant under the direction of award winning chef Mark Stroud. 

There is something for everyone at the W.P.Y.C.  Whether you practice yoga or not you will find a full rich experience & inspiration leading to & creating a path of world peace.

Please contact info@worldpeaceyogaconference.com for more information.

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VegInspiration. Celebrations of Infinite Spirit

All of us are celebrations of infinite mysterious Spirit, deserving of honor and respect. If our religions don’t emphasize this and include all of us, it’s time to replace them with spiritual teachings and traditions that do.

VegInspiration. If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities.

Voltaire wisely said, “If we believe absurdities, we will commit atrocities.” Culture is the product of conversations, and our conversations are still dominated by the ideas and assumptions of the exploitive herding paradigm we were all fed as children.

VegInspiration. Jesus' Message

Jesus’ message was intolerably radical, for it was the revolutionary vegan message of mercy and love for all creatures that strikes directly at the mentality of domination and exclusion that underlies both the herding culture we live in today and the culture of Jesus’ time.

 

VegInspiration. The Vegan Ideals

The vegan ideals of mercy and justice for animals have been articulated for centuries, often from within the religious establishment, and it is fascinating and instructive to see how these voices have been almost completely silenced or marginalized by the herding culture. It seems to be an unconscious reflex action. For example, if we read Jesus’ teachings, we find a passionate exhortation to mercy and love, yet the possibility that the historical Jesus may have been a vegan is a radical idea for most Christians. 

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VegInspiration. Eating Meat Destroys the Attitude of Great Compassion

The Buddha says in the Mahaparinirvana-sutra, “Eating meat destroys the attitude of great compassion.” The ninth-century Islamic Sufi saint Misri says, “Never think of anyone as inferior to you. Open the inner Eye and you will see the One Glory shining in all creatures.”

VegInspiration. Validate Veganism

Rather than relying on science to validate veganism and our basic herbivore physiology, we may do better by calling attention to universal truths: animals are undeniably capable of suffering; our physical bodies are strongly affected by thoughts, feelings, and aspirations; and we cannot reap happiness for ourselves by sowing seeds of misery for others. Nor may we be free while unnaturally enslaving others. We are all connected. These are knowings of the heart and veganism is, ultimately, a choice to listen to the wisdom in our heart as it opens to understanding the interconnectedness and essential unity of all life.

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VegInspiration. Refuse To See Animals as Objects

It is the height of irony that eating a diet based on animal foods, which are complicated, wasteful, cruel, and expensive to produce, is seen as simple in our culture, and that eating a vegan diet based on plant foods, which are simple, efficient, inexpensive, and free of cruelty to produce, is seen as complicated and difficult. Nevertheless, the truth is slowly coming to light, and the pressures within the old paradigm are building as more of us refuse to see animals as objects to be eaten or used for our purposes.

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VegInspiration. Problems with our Herding Culture

Confronted with the problems that characterize our herding culture, we are perhaps like the metaphorical man wounded by an arrow that the Buddha discussed with his students. He said that the man would be foolish if he tried to discover who shot the arrow, why he shot it, where he was when he shot it, and so forth, before having the arrow removed and the wound treated, lest he bleed to death attempting to get his questions answered. We, likewise, can all remove the arrow and treat the wound of eating animal foods right now. We don’t need to know the whole history. We can easily see it is cruel and that it is unnecessary; whatever people have done in the past, we are not obligated to imitate them if it is based on delusion.