The following is a compilation of messages composed by His Eminence Tsem Tulku Rinpoche on Twitter. Follow Rinpoche on Twitter to receive these and more… LIVE!
Tweeting All Vegetarians
Dear friends who care,
Those of you who wish to commit to vegetarianism for one day, one month, one year or forever, please contact my PAs Beng Kooi or Jean Ai. Let me know. I will offer a ‘butterlamp’, incense and include you in my pujas of that day for your wishes. I wish to offer pujas and prayers that day for the person who submits any form of commitment toward vegetarianism. It would be my honour to do prayers for that person(s) on that day.
I wish to encourage this action very much, not just by my words. I will repay your kindness in caring for the animals by making offerings for you that day and include you in my pujas for that day. Please do it! I sincerely hope to get hundreds of names per day and to offer hundreds of lights, incense and prayers per day for these people. Humbly, it is my way to take more responsibility to encourage the stopping of animal slaughter. Please go vegetarian and I’ll do offerings for you. This will be on-going and without no limits for those who have committed to some form of vegetarianism.
If you wish to save animals, then as a Buddhist monk, I’ll offer my pujas, lights and incense for you. Why will I do pujas and make offerings for you if you commit to vegetarianism? BECAUSE I WISH TO TAKE ACTION AND ENCOURAGE THIS FROM MY SIDE. I don’t want to just talk and do eloquent quotes of why we should stop the slaughter of animals. I want to be physically involved.
So this is how I start. I pray and make offerings for you, do pujas for you to the Three Jewels that your wishes may come true. This will be continuous. There are many benefits by offering lights, incense, water, etc. to the Three Jewels. Hence I’ll do that with the reading of your name daily. I will stock up on candles (one of my students produces candles) and I will stock up on natural healing incense to prepare.
Going vegetarian full-time, permanently is not hard. Go to YouTube and see what they do to the many animals. Many good videos there. The more awareness you have from understanding what’s being done to animals, the EASIER IT IS TO GO VEGETARIAN. Knowledge helps to transform. Compassion and pity will arise from contemplation on the plight of animals. Then from that, action will spontaneously spring forth.
The living ALWAYS EAT THE DEAD. Think about it… What animal is alive when you eat them? Unless it’s other than animals. Don’t eat the dead anymore. Go vegetarian. Why be a walking cemetery? Stop looking at animals as walking food. Just because you can eat animals, DOESN’T MEAN YOU HAVE TO EAT THEM. Since there’s an option, why not exercise the more positive choice?
Freeing animals from slaughter or taking a vow of vegetarianism is a wonderful way to dedicate to a loved one’s long life and health. Going vegetarian or saving animals is a direct cause for increasing life span in order to practise Dharma further and not to lose life.
Of course, sopping direct animal murder to eat doesn’t solve all your problems. Cultivating and harvesting crops still kills insects. However, it’s the lesser of the two evils. Living in samsara, there’s no way you can avoid karma…
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