Pleasure and Pain are the consequences of the actions of our past lives.
Our Creator, whose grace and blessings is always on us - He alone knows.
So who can we blame ?
The hardships and sufferings that we go thru in this life are the fruits of our own actions.
No one but we ourselves are responsible for our present status in life.
Source: SGGS 1030
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Living Graves
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we ever expect ideal conditions on earth" - George Bernard Shaw
Are we not Living Graves when we eat dead animals ?
We take our dead to the cemetery but by eating the dead bodies of animals, aren't we making our bodies the grave yards of hundreds of animals ?
Have we conveniently forgotten that these living creatures have a soul ?
It is time that all humans acknowledge the divine spirit in each and every living creature on this planet.
These poor animals who have not been blessed with speech can surely feel pain.
Are we not Living Graves when we eat dead animals ?
We take our dead to the cemetery but by eating the dead bodies of animals, aren't we making our bodies the grave yards of hundreds of animals ?
Have we conveniently forgotten that these living creatures have a soul ?
It is time that all humans acknowledge the divine spirit in each and every living creature on this planet.
These poor animals who have not been blessed with speech can surely feel pain.
They cannot express the suffering inflicted on them. They have no lawyers to stand up and fight for them nor leaders to revolt.
Thus humans take full advantage of their helplessness.
Are we so desperate to eat delicious food at the cost of inflicting suffering on these helpless creatures ?
It's time we ponder and decide for ourselves - is it worth it.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
You Are Real
One night, a King had a dream in which he dreamt that he had lost his kingdom and became a beggar.
He was going round the streets of the city begging for alms. The pangs of hunger made him cry. A kind hearted person gave him some food, but to his great misfortune, even that morsel slipped down from his hand.
Just then the horror stricken king woke up from his dream. He found himself in his royal palace.
The king asked himself, "Which is real - the dream world or the conscious world? "
The Queen who was observing him was also perplexed. They decided to consult their spiritual master.
When the King had finished describing his dream, the spiritual master thus explained:
"O King, both are real in one sense but there is also another point of view. You became a beggar in the dream world and you are the King in the conscious world. ‘You’ exist in both the worlds. While these two worlds are unreal,
‘You’ alone are real. You are the absolute reality of the dreaming state as well as the conscious state".
He was going round the streets of the city begging for alms. The pangs of hunger made him cry. A kind hearted person gave him some food, but to his great misfortune, even that morsel slipped down from his hand.
Just then the horror stricken king woke up from his dream. He found himself in his royal palace.
The king asked himself, "Which is real - the dream world or the conscious world? "
The Queen who was observing him was also perplexed. They decided to consult their spiritual master.
When the King had finished describing his dream, the spiritual master thus explained:
"O King, both are real in one sense but there is also another point of view. You became a beggar in the dream world and you are the King in the conscious world. ‘You’ exist in both the worlds. While these two worlds are unreal,
‘You’ alone are real. You are the absolute reality of the dreaming state as well as the conscious state".
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