Request To Indian People From Vegetarians Of World

Author(s): Young Indian Vegetarians
Publisher: Young Indian Vegetarians

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This type of compassion is what we must strive to cultivate in ourselves, and we must develop it from a limited amount to the limitless. Undiscriminating, spontaneous, and unlimited compassion for all sentient beings is obviously not the usual love that one has for friends or family, which is alloyed with ignorance, desire, and attachment. The kind of love we should advocate is this wider love that you can have even for someone who has done harm to you: your enemy.
The rationale for compassion is that every one of us wants to avoid suffering and gain happiness. This, in turn, is based on the valid feeling of 'l', which deter
mines the universal desire for happiness. Indeed, all beings are born with simi-. lar desires and should have an equal right to fulfil them. If I compare myself with others, who are countless, I feel that others are more important because I am just one person wheras others are many. Further, the Tibetan Buddhist tradition teaches us to view all sentient beings as our dear mothers and to show our gratitude by loving them all. For, according to Buddhist theory, we are born and reborn countless numbers of times, and it is conceivable that each being has been our parent at one time or another. In this way all beings in the universe share a family relationship.
Whether one believes in religion or not, there is no one who does not appreciate love and compassion. Right from the moment of our birth, we are under the care and kindness of our parents; later in lilfe, when facing the sufferings of dis
ease and old age, we are again dependent on the kindness of others. If at the · beginning and end of our lives we depend upon others' kindness, why then in the middle should we not act kindly towards others?
The development of a kind heart (a feeling of closenes for all human beings) does not involve the religiosity we normally associate with conventional religious practice. It is not only for people who believe in religion, but is for everyone regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation. It is for anyone who considers himself or herself, above all, a member of the human family and who sees things from this larger and longer perspective. This is a powerful feeling that we should develop and apply; instead, we often neglect it, particularly in our prime years when we experience a false sense of security.
स्नेह विश्वशांति का स्तम्भ बौद्ध मनोविज्ञान के अनुसार हमारी बहुत सी तकलीकों की वजह है हमारी काल्पनिक वस्तुओं की प्राप्ति के लिए अदम् इच्छा तथा तत्संबंधी लगाव. इच्छित वस्तु की प्राप्ति एवं तद्पन्य लगाव में हठधर्मिता तथा प्रतियोगिता परक उपकरणों का होना आवश्यक हो जाता है। ये सभी मानसिक प्रक्रियाएं कार्यरूप में परिणत होते हुए beligerancs जैसे प्रभाव को जन्म देती है। ऐसी प्रक्रियाएं मानव मस्तिष्क में अनादि काल से होती आ रही है। किंतु इनकी कार्यरूप में होने वाली परिणति वर्तमान परिस्थितियों मै और भी प्रभावोत्पादक बन गई है। प्रम, लाल
और आक्रमणात्मक प्रवृत्ति जैसे "विषो" को नियमित और नियंत्रित करने के लिए हम क्या कर . सकते है? क्योंकि संसार की हर परेशानी के पीछे वहि विष कार्य कर रहे होते है।