Functioning from Truth (Excerpt)

[@alfreddifeo9642]

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[@USASMR-o2c]

This is a a calmer Bill Burr

[@lindamylne1428]

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[@jusapoet72]

A doppelganger of the Light? 😅

[@azibi69]

and that's why i'm a vegan now 🌱😃

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

Using the 12 steps to get sober after 35 years of chronic alcoholism and addiction I had a huge awakening at about 6 months sober and vegetarian happened here. That was almost 11 years ago. I have eaten chicken and fish several times the last 2 years and still eat dairy like cheese etc but chicken and fish is a rare thing and seems again to becoming not ok for me.

[@lukebattersby9179]

@@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496 have you heard of Sailor Bob?

[@tiagogranettodemello7343]

I like Adyashanti's take on this topic: Safransky: Could killing animals to eat them come from wholeness? Adyashanti: Sure. Life is killing. If we eat a vegetable, we’ve killed it. If we eat an animal, we’ve killed it. To be a living organism is to kill. There is no life without death. When we die, we’re going to be nutrients for something else. I don’t see life as “anything goes,” but I have seen wholeness move through different people in different ways. That’s why I’m always talking about action that comes from wholeness, not from division, nor rejection, nor grasping, nor pushing away. What motivates us when we’re not pushing or grasping, not relying on conditioned concepts of right and wrong, good and bad? Is there something else that can move us? And what is that? Action that is an expression of a clear and undivided state of consciousness is what the Buddha meant by “right action.” To exercise right action we must be functioning from a place outside of all egoic self-interest. We must be awake within the dream and be able to express that perspective.

[@Dowlphin]

@@tiagogranettodemello7343 I have every motivation to boycott business that pander to Israel, but I was religiously compelled to, after many years of not doing it, eat at McDonald's, and the purpose was not to take up the habit, but to free me of the elements of my decision that were rooted in fear. I had to explore whether I was able to overcome those principles once, maybe so that I can find a long-term more potent path. The perfectionist element had to be purged from my approach.

[@Dowlphin]

@@tiagogranettodemello7343 LOL, I could FEEL that my response would get shadowbanned. An inspiring life anecdote wasted. If you still want to see my response, tell me and we might find another way. Or if you have e-mail notifications on, you should have received it, I think.