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Vegan Day: Green Light for Action and Compassion

By Abhayamati on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 16:01

Vegan Day: Green Light for Action and Compassion

By Abhayamati on Mon, 5 May, 2014 - 16:01A Bodhisattva helps suffering beings without hesitation because he has the clarity, the means and the open heart.
Explore the joy and challenges of becoming a vegan. There will be a talk and discussion to clarify our mind, a session of meditation to coax our heart, a poetry event to awaken our imagination and delicious vegan food, the means to alleviate the suffering of sentient beings.

10:30 Introduction to Loving Kindness meditation

11:15 Talk by Amalasiddhi

12:00...

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Vegan Poetry event invites submissions

By lokabandhu on Thu, 3 Apr, 2014 - 09:54

Vegan Poetry event invites submissions

By lokabandhu on Thu, 3 Apr, 2014 - 09:54Vimalabandhu writes with news of the Cambridge Buddhist Centre’s Vegan Day, scheduled for June 2014. It will include a Vegan Poetry event - and submissions are invited from around the world. He says -

“Heart approach to becoming a vegan

To renounce our old favourite foods and become a vegan cheerfully, we need more than a convincing idea and alternative food. Our head and our stomach need the support of our heart. Writing a poem can help us...

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Inside the Milk Machine

By Candradasa on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 13:10

Inside the Milk Machine

By Candradasa on Tue, 18 Mar, 2014 - 13:10A great, in-depth article on Modern Farmer about the milk industry today…

Read the whole article

“At one time, milk was one of the more natural processes in farming.  A bull would impregnate a cow — an actual bull, before the age of artificial insemination . She was pregnant for  nine months and then a baby cow  was born.

Afterwards, from the calf’s birth to up to three months after it was weaned, the farmer would...

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Cruelty-Free Eggs

By Candradasa on Sat, 15 Mar, 2014 - 16:11

Cruelty-Free Eggs

By Candradasa on Sat, 15 Mar, 2014 - 16:11Hi everyone, I was wondering what people think about the concept (or indeed the experience!) of cruelty-free eggs? I’ve been meaning to ask for ages! We started looking into it (we = my wife & I) when one of our friends started keeping chickens. Now we know three folk who, as far as we can tell, keep chickens as pets and look after them very well:

By “very well” I mean: in expansive settings (way beyond commercial “free...

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Vegan Summer & the Five Precepts

By Dassini on Tue, 2 Jul, 2013 - 11:29

Vegan Summer & the Five Precepts

By Dassini on Tue, 2 Jul, 2013 - 11:29Every summer we have the quirkily named “Summertime Specials”, a series of Dharma talks, and this year’s theme is The Five Precepts. To accompany this series we’re having Vegan Summer - the GBC is going totally vegan for six weeks! How best to put the 1st Precept into action?!

Starting on Thursday 18th July, we’ll launch the Vegan Summer and Summertime Specials with an evening dedicated to the precepts, introducing the talks and celebrating with a festive puja...

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The Jewel in the Cabbage: a jewel of a book!

By lokabandhu on Sun, 7 Apr, 2013 - 05:27

The Jewel in the Cabbage: a jewel of a book!

By lokabandhu on Sun, 7 Apr, 2013 - 05:27The Jewel in the Cabbage, out of print for many years, has been republished in both paperback and ebook format. It’s a beautiful book, subtitled ‘Cooking with Metaphors’, and perhaps best described as a Buddhist meditation on the art and practice of cooking. Vimalabandhu, its author, was for many years chef at Padmaloka and Windhorse:Evolution.

The book is available from Triratna’s ‘lulu’ page, where it’s being sold at cost price with an ...

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Two vegan links...

By lokabandhu on Sun, 30 Dec, 2012 - 20:17

Two vegan links...

By lokabandhu on Sun, 30 Dec, 2012 - 20:17Thank, Jane, for these two links - great reading for anyone wanting to really look at (and change) the way they relate to animals. First is practical, www.vegetarianrecipeclub.org.uk - it’s all vegan and v.comprehensive, with not just recipes but lots of articles. Second is Resurgence magazine’s Animals edition which was awesome. The website doesn’t have everything that the hard copy mag did but it’s a good place to start.

Happy 2013 everyone! May all...

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Buddhism on a Plate: Food and the First Precept

By lokabandhu on Sat, 25 Feb, 2012 - 06:37

Buddhism on a Plate: Food and the First Precept

By lokabandhu on Sat, 25 Feb, 2012 - 06:37Buddhism on a Plate, published today, is another in our series of occasional feature articles. On the subject of veganism and, more generally, how Buddhists might best apply the precept of non-violence to their choice of food it’s written by Samacitta, chair of Triratna’s Birmingham Buddhist Centre and a vegan herself for many years.

Jane Easton, Food & Cookery Coordinator at Viva! and the Vegetarian & Vegan Foundation and a Buddhist herself comments “… great...

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