Being a Vegan Is a Great Happiness | Thich Nhat Hanh (Vietnamese with English subtitles)
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- This is an excerpt of a Dharma talk given by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh on January 16, 1997 in New Hamlet, Plum Village France. Available on the FREE Plum Village App plumvillage.app/
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"It’s clear that in life, there are sufferings. When we see a tiger biting a fawn’s neck, the fawn is very gentle, very beautiful, we feel a lot of compassion in our heart. However, we know that this lion or this tiger has no choice other than biting the fawn’s neck because it also needs to live. If we have understanding, not only do we have compassion for the fate of that gentle and beautiful fawn, we also have compassion for the tiger because it’s forced to kill this fawn to eat and survive.
These animals, these fierce animals, they have to hunt. But they have something different than humans, which is they only hunt when they’re hungry. But humans hunt even when they’re not hungry. They hunt for fun. Even if we have already had enough money to feed ourselves and our family, we still hunt."
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Original Vietnamese title: “Được Ăn Chay Là Một Hạnh Phúc Lớn [Thực Tập Căn Bản Làng Mai] TS Nhất Hạnh”
Originally posted by: Làng Mai (Plum Village's Vietnamese UA-cam channel) • Được Ăn Chay Là M...
Talk given: January 16, 1997, New Hamlet, Plum Village France
Length: 7 minutes 30 seconds
REFERENCES (Resources used to translate this Dharma talk):
1. Wikipedia, Throat clamp, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throat_...
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Republished on the Plum Village App with kind permission of Thich Nhat Hanh's Talks channel / @tnhtalks 🙏
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I've been vegan for 6 years, best decision of my life :)
Vegan, the rational choice for those that understand suffering.
If you eat round-up ready GMO monocrop grains and seeds youre promoting a massive loss of life. Industrial monocrop agriculture destroys even the bacteria in the soil, turning more and more farmland into desert every year. Animals are actually essential for soil health and a vibrant ecosystem, we should avoid monocrop agriculture.
Dont prioritize only the suffering of some life over that of other types of life.
@@-whackd Please, educate yourself on the topic of land use and why GMO's exist in the first place before making yourself look foolish. Start off with the bioacumulation of GMO's that are being fed to someones flesh that you consume, where the entire reason for monocropping begins. Flesh eaters are the ones responsible. Going vegan reduces land use (up to 76% by many major studies) meaning better land managment, less monocropping, and better soil rotations. FYI, cattle are a monocrop...
Animals are not essential for healthy soil, mycelium are. If you really cared about plants, it takes 10x more plants to fatten some poor cow, than eating the plants directly, just so you can pay someone to cut their head off.
Also, this should be obvious to a child, plants don't have a central nervous system, nor a brain, and are incapable of suffering.
So much misinformation in your statement it's not even funny.
Yes , to be happy as a vegan , to know there is no need to hunt .
Is a great liberation .
Living the vegan way , brings great understanding.
He was and always will be a true master. What a gentle and wise soul.
Whenever someone says "if you don't eat meat you'll die young", I always invite them to watch this video. His books are great, too. He is a great Thầy.
Thanks for sharing.
This video is medicine. 🙏
Ever since I've stopped eating animals I've become filled with happiness and energy. I've also been able to influence others around me to try and do the same.
Eating vegan is so delicious and rewarding.
I'm already vegan and have been for over 6 years but I am newly Buddhist. I adore Thich Nhat Hanh he was the first person who got me interested in Buddhism so I'm very excited to watch this! (I didn't know he was vegan!)
Stepping out of eating animals and animal products is a great liberation of the soul.
He’s absolutely right, as always.
There’s so much horror in the world that we have no control over but we do have control over what we eat, wear, and support. I sleep much easier, knowing I have not created any suffering in the world. It’s a peace that’s hard to put into words. Humans that hunt for sport are operating on a very low frequency. No other animal but the human species hunts for pleasure.
I was in line recently at a grocery store. The man in front of me was bragging about going on an expensive hunting trip in some other country and talking about the animals he killed and how much fun it was.
In my heart I was trembling with anger and I knew that I wanted to really tell this man how cruel he was. But I also knew from my practice to never say anything when your truly angry.
So now if I ever come across that opportunity to speak out against the injustice, I vowed to make sure I keep myself from getting angry, that way I can try to protect others who can't protect themselves. 🙏
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I totally understand how you feel. It’s not easy to hold back in those situations because it is so heinous and completely not understandable.
I love how forthright he is. Telling it like it is.
Vegan for 18 years ❤️❤️❤️
I touch the earth to you and thank you on behalf of all the animals you have saved.
This is the clear real connection of the 1st Precept of Ahimsa in true Buddhism and the Vegan principle.. That is why the Buddha made Ahimsa/Veganism the first precept, so it is noticed first. Because He knew most people would have the hardest time following it, and make excuses to go around it and continue their infliction of suffering on animals. All Vegans might not be Buddhists, but all truly sincere Buddhists are Vegans.
It is a lovely practice 😊❤ Even if you cannot commit to doing it every day all day just try moving this direction more. For the planet, your health, and the animals.
one of the truly great masters
I always love how Thay shows how all our choices affect everything around us. Powerful Interbeing Reminders. Thank you, Thay.
Thank you for sharing dear friend.
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Yes. We have the Happiness of being a vegan
Compassion and respect for ALL life, in every shape and form ❤️
To be a Vegan or Vegetarian is the right choice 🪷🪷🪷
oh yes ! My Granddaughter says we must not eat our friends :) Love to all Louise
Fresh veggies and fruits, olive oil, whole grains and pastas, beans and nuts. What more does one need. Nothing.
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@@hear-and-know yes. I hope you can find nutritional yeast in your country.
thank you. i have never seen this video and i am moved to tears at his sensitivity and expression of the importance and reasons for eating vegan foods and living ethically. i have never ever once sense any type of arrogance or ego when I have heard him speak, and that remains to me, one of the biggest reasons I see him as inspiration and visionary leader.
This man decided himself that he wanted to be a monk at the age of 7 and never looked back. He was destined to be a great spiritual teacher.
Great video. One of the few genuine buddhist teachers I know. Where can I learn more about the meditation he teaches?
Dear friend, please have a look at the collection of short teachings and Dharma talks on the Plum Village App web.plumvillage.app/talks Hope this helps. A lotus for you 🙏🏼
An insight into the non-violence of eating a plant diet
The only thing i am not sure of. Plants and soil life and ocean has so much conciousness and are precious.
It would still be the least amount of suffering caused. As for now, scientist say that plants don't have a conscious and a brain/a way to feel any pain or emotion that would make them suffer the way every other animal does. Ofc science is not always that wise but as I said, still the best option to eat the plants because the animals have to be fed 3x times more of the plants that we would need to survive.
More plants are destroyed by eating animals, as the farmed animals are fed plants. So if you want to minimize damage to plants you go vegan.
Aside from what Ou. mentioned, consider this: a plant has roots. It does not run away. A fruit-bearing tree gives freely. An animal who feels pain screams and runs away from this suffering.
It's indeed minimizing harm... We know that they are living beings as well. When you cut a tree, it grows back. We can infer that it wants to live. But I think there is no comparison between the suffering of a tree, and the suffering of an animal - especially when animals spend their life getting tortured, just so we can have one meal. I try my best to minimize the harm I cause to other beings, is all I can say :)
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I'm vegetarian and I'm very sad when they don't understand the reasons.
Are you vegetarian for the animals? Because if you are and allow me to show you, that the animals still die by being used as a product until they become useless to this industry they are in and the outcome will still be a dead animal. If you like to see it for yourself, you can look on UA-cam for the Dominion Documentary (Free) and see all the ways they treat the animals.
Being vegetarian is just giving the dead animals over to the next person that would eat them. I was shocked when I found this out after being a vegetarian for 1 year. But if you see the documentary you will understand without a doubt 😊
@@OpenUp. Thank you! 😥 But I realized that I can't change the world, I ONLY CAN CHANGE MYSELF so I do my best.
@@misinca You're like the sunray shining on the earth, it might seem that you don't do much put you bring light into this world. You could say, we are all the light Ray's of the Sun 🌞 and the whole sun at the same time.
I like to remind you that your actions have a deep impact on the Universal consciousness. So yes, your also right, you take full responsibility for yourself and can inspire others by doing so. I've seen that play out in my life very often, and the strongest impact I was always without much effort 😸.
Much love on and for your journey 💓😄✌️
I was vegan for 8 years. Actually went to Deer Park for the Rains Retreat exploring the monastic path. Took this last year off, eating omni and it has been strange at times..but I think helpful for not holding so tightly to views and exploration of what it is to be a human. Still want to honor life, so I'm going back to mostly plant based, perhaps with some eggs here and there to safeguard my nutritional bases.
you have done more than most humans. society does not seek to help those who choose to minimize cruelty and suffering. i think you are doing a lot just by being interested in veganism
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Even though i think that in a right quantity and with a kind way of use Dairy Products and their Makers could be so special,
Many thanks again Master Thay and Sangha as well..
And still a New Serene Year to all of You,
Grazie di nuovo 🙏❤
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Sfortunatamente l'industria del latte e formaggio contiene la stessa quantità di sofferenza e crudeltà. E se ci pensi, il latte delle vacche esiste per i vitelli. Non producono il latte per i umani. In più il formaggio e latte essendo prodotti non naturali per il consumo per l'essere umano, crea malattia per noi e i nostri organi.
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The only issue I have with Vegans or Vegetarians. Is that most if not all of then want food that mimicks the look, taste, even smell of a dead animal. These "beyond" meats, or any other fake meat. This to me isn't what a Vegan should be. You shouldn't be striving to recreate dead animal from Vegetables. If your against the suffering of animals, then the taste of dead animal is suffering itself. You shouldn't want to recreate suffering.
Not every vegan is like this. I personally don't like the alternatives that much but as for the people that make the transition, this can be an immense help to see that all they eat is coming from plants and still keeps them healthy. But ofc non processed plants are the best.
I would agree but I would just say that many people are addicted to the tastes of flesh, and while a lot of corporations may just be trying to capture the market that eludes them because they can't sell a burger to a vegan, these products can possibly be useful to help people eat less animals.
@rapinbatches By the definition of veganism the motivation for going vegan is NOT that animal products might look, taste or smell bad to you. You go vegan for the animals.
Another thing. What is wrong with recreating say "butter" as a plant food using e.g. cashews and coconut fat? Do you seriously believe that by doing so one would "recreate dead animals [and their suffering] from vegetables"?!
In my perspective, this type of food is more for people who are trying to be vegetarian, but find it difficult. Not every vegetarian/vegan eats this type of "fake meat", but there is also nothing disingenuous about it-it just makes it easier for people who are used to eating meat most of their upbringing.
You know whats also fun? Eating animals. If humans ate animals for the entirety of human existence without fail, I see no reason why i should break the trend
Because we can do better, that's why we should break the cycle
First of all its not necessarily better, second of all i like meat. I need a much more compelling argument than that
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1- You could easily have been born as a pig or cow, it doesn't take much in the reincarnation roulette (remember the population of animals and insects is bigger than the humans combined).
2- Also, with heightened sensitivity, meat doesn't tastes the way you think it does, just go to any psychonaut/psychedelics forum or subreddit, they always discuss the same topic, how meat tastes like cardboard paper or rubber.
3- What you really enjoy in meat is the flavor of the sauces and spices, not the meat itself.
4 - Eating meat is more expensive for your wallet.
5 - Meat takes a long time to digest
6 - Compassion alone for other beings (in this case animals) should be enough of a reason
7 - Eating cadavers filled with blood and organs is kinda gross
I eat meat because it's the proper human diet, not fun. I would prefer not to eat anything that I can make eye contact with, but everything dies and everything eats something else. I eat meat with a grateful heart. That's the best I can do and I am OK with that.
I do think that animals should graze freely on their natural diet however, not locked in tiny stalls eating grains grown with glyphosates.
It's called compassion, not everyone possesses it in their soul.
beautiful and true