Vegetarianism

Don’t Wait Till You’re Thirsty to Dig a Well

Living beings all have this problem. When you are not sick, you think the world is a happy and satisfying place. But when you get sick, you cannot move about, eat, or have the freedom to do what you want, and you endure all kinds of unbearable pain and misery. That’s when you discover that this body actually causes us a lot of suffering, but it’s already too late.

A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights

Professor Ronald Epstein

n Buddhism the most fundamental guideline for conduct is ahimsa-the prohibition against the bringing of harm and/or death to any living being. Why should one refrain from killing? It is because all beings have lives; they love their lives and do not wish to die. Even one of the smallest creatures, the mosquito, when it approaches to bite you, will fly away if you make the slightest motion.