Vegan & Meowies

The real pest are we the human beings but we live in perpetual denial and always blame other species for our "misfortunes".

I remember Venerable Antonio, a soccer-fan Italian tibetan monk, said that we who realise that anger is a negative emotion is extremely fortunate. To most people, anger is "natural". So we who are able to see the suffering behind a "steak", a piece of "pork", etc, are extremely fortunate because most people are just ignorant, being caught up in the cravings of the sense of sight and taste.

I was at the barber yesterday. He told me that the fruit-stall man who was seen to throw durian husks at a community cat some months ago, has moved to just outside his shop. He said that yesterday he "shoo-ed" a cockcroach out of his shop as he managed to stop a reflex of stamping on it. However he said the fruit-seller squashed the cockcroach with his foot. I told him that the karmic results of two different actions on one sentient being that happened to be a cockcroach in this life, were like heaven and hell.

I witnessed this scene once at a bus-stop, whereby schoolboy A told schoolboy B there's a big, red ant on his arm and was going to blow it off for B. But B quicky slapped down on his own arm hard and killed the ant. Then B sort of show off to A the dead ant, I was very disturbed by this show of callousness and wanted to speak to the boy but did not as he probably thinks why this nutcase is making a fuss out of an ant !