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I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of years. — Rajneesh
Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the… — Rajneesh
It is the other way round: food cannot make you spiritual, but if you are spiritual your food habits will change. Eating anything will not… — Rajneesh
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have… — Rajneesh
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life. — Rajneesh
Vegetarianism has nothing to do with religion: it is something basically scientific. It has nothing to do with morality, but it has much to do… — Rajneesh
Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can… — Rajneesh
If you meditate long enough, deep enough, it is impossible for you to hurt anybody for food; it is impossible. It is not a question… — Rajneesh
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive but less sensuous,… — Rajneesh
No vegetarian has been able to achieve a single Nobel prize. It is a clear-cut condemnation of vegetarianism. Why do all the Nobel prizes go… — Rajneesh
Jainism is the first religion that has made vegetarianism a fundamental necessity for transforming consciousness. And they are right. Killing just to eat makes your… — Rajneesh
Life in its infinite forms exists as one organic unity. We are part of it: the part should feel reverence for the whole. That is… — Rajneesh
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live in friendship with… — Rajneesh
See all living beings as your father or mother, and love them as if you were their child — Atisa
Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence — Nhat Hanh
One who kill, own life will be shortened; One who harms, will be injured even more — Akkineni Nagarjuna
If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner — Gautama Buddha
I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking,… — Nhat Hanh
Vegetarianism is a way of life that we should all move toward for economic survival, physical well-being and spiritual integrity. — Thomas Berry
One who, while seeking happiness, oppresses with violence other living beings who also desire happinesss, will not find happiness hereafter. — Gautama Buddha
He who has renounced all violence towards all living beings, weak or strong, who neither kills nor causes others to kill - him I do… — Gautama Buddha
Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings - for example his insistence that his monks strain… — Philip Kapleau
The inhabitants are numerous and happy... Throuhout the country the people do not kill any living creature, nor drink intoxicating liquor, they do not keep… — Faxian
...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis of… — Albert Schweitzer
One who loves Krishna will give Him whatever He wants, and he avoids offering anything which is undesirable or unasked for. Thus, meat, fish and… — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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