One day when a man was driving to the market

Suddenly a chicken rushed out to the road

He immediately slammed on the brake to avoid the chicken

What a relief, he did not run over the chicken

When he reached the market

He went to a chicken stall

And looked for a fat chicken

He told the chicken seller

His wife asked him to buy a fat chicken

Minutes ago he was relieved that he did not kill a chicken

The next minute he was buying a fat chicken

The instinct of not to kill is in us

Unfortunately it is very short

Very fast we forget our instinct of not to kill

And look for food that needs killing

If the instinct could be developed

To be always in our conscience mind

Then most likely we won’t participate indirectly in the killing

By eating them

Simply because the instinct is made aware

The Bible and the Buddha say,

Not to kill and not, Not to murder

Certainly the Lord Jesus Christ

Does not lack the vocabulary

May we take lesser meat and spare the poor animals the fear and pain

For health, mercy or spiritual reasons

JiGong said in a poem:

"A word for the flesh-eaters:

Do remember that, in eating flesh

This life is what you have sown in the past

But your future life lies on how you cultivate last

In flesh-eating, you take the pleasures of today

And fear not the worry of tomorrows

That back to others you must pay!"

People say,

"When you eat half a ‘kati’

You must return eight taels"

Meat eaters take the pleasure of today

Vegetarians sacrifice the pleasure of today

Vegetarians cut off the bad karma between animals and human

By not eating them, by freeing them, by having good karma with them

This is compassion; this is love

In return vegetarians receive love

In one form or another.