In Buddhism, the most important precept of all
is to live in awareness, to know what is going on. To know what is going on,
not only here, but there. For instance, when you eat a piece of bread, you may
choose to be aware that our farmers, in growing the wheat, use chemical poisons
a little too much.... When we eat a piece of meat or drink alcohol, we can
produce awareness that 40,000 children die each day from hunger and that in
order to produce a piece of meat or a bottle of liquor, we have to use a lot of
grain. Eating a bowl of cereal may be more reconciling with the suffering of
the world than eating a piece of meat....
Every day we do things, we are things, that
have to do with peace. If we are aware of our lifestyle, our way of consuming,
of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment we are
alive, the present moment.
Source: Being Peace ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
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