Vegetarian, Why?

In this dual and third-dimensional world that we live in, there is a great variety of tendencies in the human race that generally defines their behavior, tastes and preferences, and lifestyles. In these trends we find differences in race, skin color, educational levels, intelligence and ultimately levels of consciousness. This can definitely vary in the different dimensions of existence.

I have led a vegetarian lifestyle for many years, specifically Pescatarian without eating animal meat. Even though there are many reasons to have this lifestyle and as a Buddhist, in addition to avoiding the suffering of sentient beings, my reasons are varied but concentrated on the energy and quality of the food I eat, as they are mentioned in Sanskrit as Gunas.

Gunas:

1. Sattva is the quality of balance, harmony, goodness, purity, universalizing, holistic, constructive, creative,  building, positive, peaceful, and virtuous.

2. Rajas is the quality of passion, activity, neither good nor bad and sometimes either, self-centeredness, egoistic, individualizing, driven, moving, dynamic.

3.Tamas is the quality anxiety, impure, destructive, delusion, negative, dull or                       inactive, apathy, inertia or lethargy, ignorant.

Recognizing that each person has a different level of consciousness, always respecting the beliefs and behaviors of those who do like to eat meat, I try to follow my regimen and discipline so that my actions are always in accordance with my spiritual discipline.

For this reason, and as the Buddha taught the middle path, when the situation or celebration arises that offers me to eat some type of meat, mainly poultry, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. and I decide to do it, I always do the ritual, in silence, first recognizing that eating is sacred and a holy process, aware of the dish I have, I am grateful for the sacrifice of the being that died for me and that when I ingest it it will become part of me since what we ingest becomes part of our cells, I also thank everyone involved in the process and the chain of events so that it came to me and I make the promise to honor the life of the animal through my life.

Thus, I try to minimize the energetic impact on my consciousness.