Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15)

Tara Brach

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Compassion Towards All: Moving toward a Plant Based Diet (2019-05-15) - For most of human history it’s been “normal” to eat non-human animals. This is now changing. We are awakening to the massive suffering of the billions of animals killed each day for food, the horrors of the animal-food industry, and the impact it has on climate change (second only to fossil fuels.) In this short talk Tara shares her personal story of transitioning to a vegan diet, and invites listeners to investigate, without judgment, their own choices in this domain. (note: given at a special class on "Loving Life with a Plant-Based Diet." Tara was joined by guest speakers, Mark Tercek and Brenda Sanders, and hosted by Jonathan Foust. Full video available at Tara's Facebook page and soon at IMCW.org.)

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0:00.0	Greetings. We offer these podcasts freely and your support really makes a difference.
0:08.5	To make a donation, please visit tarbrock.com.
0:15.5	First of all, I'm so touched and glad that you all came and I'm really curious, I have
0:30.0	a couple of questions. How many of you came because you knew the topic? I thought it'd
0:39.1	be simpler to say it that way. I won't ask it in reverse. It's really, really a powerful
0:46.4	thing to feel like that we're gathering together to explore this particular topic because
0:53.1	I think it's really hard to talk about. I've been in a lot of different groups and situations
0:59.5	where this has been kind of a focus and it's an edgy one and I love that what we've heard
1:06.8	so far that I love the way Brenda described where you came from. I love to feel the projects
1:14.3	and then the passion that came out of it and that I'm going to find out because these are
1:20.0	real animal parts from real creatures and beings like us and that passion and then we have
1:27.4	a Wall Street guy and the same passion and what it tells me it's really part of the human
1:35.3	heart to care and that we're going to be finding it in all beings waking up in all places.
1:43.6	And I have one in Korea kind of want to explore together that's really the big one for me
1:50.8	which is what wakes us up in this area? What is it that actually motivates people to change
2:03.8	the way they're living for the sake of each other and all beings and this earth? Like what
2:10.6	is it that does it? And I'm going to loop back to that and ask you that that each of you
2:18.7	is on a path of awakening and I don't make any assumptions there may be many that don't
2:25.5	resonate with a plant-based diet for many reasons but we're on a path of finding out who
2:32.7	we are as part of a larger belonging and really learning how to live more true to that.
2:40.4	So I'm going to come back to that question of what motivates you and I thought I'd say one
2:47.5	thing that doesn't motivate is guilt, right? It's so big when it comes to veganism. I do want to
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