What Religion Do You Follow?

[Dr.Grass]

lolita said:

Dr.Grass said:

It's much more important to do something that's sustainable than to pasionately go all out for something.

For me its easier than for most since I stayed in India for a while and learnt to cook there from a master cook. I quite enjoy inviting friends over and impressing them with a special dinner.

So I don't think you should worry about tuna. Besides, Rastas eat fish too :D

Wow, lucky you! I love (mild) vegetarian curries, ate one not too long ago at a restaurent and if I could cook like that, I'd have no problem being 100% vegetarian. As for now, I'm pretty much a lessmeatarian... I don't eat a lot of meat but I still feel for it. Only reason I still do is my cooking isn't so great with vegetarian food.

I believe that to be as kind as you can be, you need to show compassion for living being, and animals are living being. I believe they have feelings (although not as extream as ours) and they can feel stressed, in danger and fearful. I aspire to become a better person and being vegetarian would be a step towards that.

As for religion, well while reading the Quran, I learned that there is still no satisfaction on my part. If God is perfect, then the religion would be perfect, and yet I don't find such evidence. There are things I disagree with in every religion, or at least things have too much emphasis on certain things (like Buddhism saying that pain is from cravings, is true in many situations but not always-but then again Buddhism isn't based on divine revelations I suppose).

I'm pretty much back at square one, believing that there being a God, is a 50/50 chance, believing in God being a better option than not to... It's not like I'm losing anything by beliving anyway. Still not following any religion so to speak. I suppose I could follow some Buddhist teachings without really being a Buddhist... *Shrugs* It's so complicated! I can't believe that people can just pick something and stick with it.

I'm not preaching here, dead honest. But I would suggest reading the Bhagavad Gita if you are looking for something deep:

"When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous." ~ Albert Einstein

"The Bhagavad-Gita has a profound influence on the spirit of mankind by its devotion to God which is manifested by actions." ~ Dr. Albert Schweizer

 

"In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial." ~ Henry David Thoreau

 

"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was the first of books; it was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us."

 ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson