Resources: Compassion for Animals
The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is crucial that this include all living beings. Our societal conditioning blinds us to the horror of suffering experienced by non-human animals through our cruel system of factory farming. This topic domain explores how facing and responding to this suffering is necessary for the freedom of our own hearts, and the healing of the world.
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“All beings fear danger, life is dear to all. When a person considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.” (Dhammapada, 129)
Compassion for Animals – Talks
Compassion toward Non-Human Animals
A Conversation between Konda Mason and Tara Brach The medicine our world most needs is compassion, and it is crucial that this include all living beings. Our societal...
Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet
For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day...
Tara Talks: Compassion toward Non-Human Animals (11:39 min.)
Tara Talks: Compassion for Non-Human Animals For thousands of years humans have become accustomed to de-valuing, exploiting and violating non-human animals. This unseen bias of...
Compassion for Animals – Other Resources
Blog: Resources for Plant-Based Eating
Resources from the Vegan Sangha “All beings fear danger, life is dear to all. When a person considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill.” (Dhammapada, 129) There are a lot...