“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

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

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Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.”

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

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.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm

When we look deeply we see that understanding brings and awakens love, and that love brings and awakens understanding.

If our so-called understanding of animals does not ignite within us a loving urge to allow them to fulfill their lives and purposes, to honor, respect and appreciate them, then it is not true understanding.

Our science is in many ways incapable of this authentic understanding, and, because it is also often a vehicle of corporate power, it is best not to rely on it too heavily in our quest for wisdom or healing.

May all beings be free and at peace,  Will

http://worldpeacediet.com – our daily VegInspiration For The Day
http://circleofcompassion.org – our Prayer Circle For Animals Weekly Update
http://worldpeacemastery.com - our new online self-paced WPD Facilitator Training

Original watercolor painting by Madeleine Tuttle
http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm