Spirituality

How do you feel mentally if you eat that contains meat? You have probably never given it all thought, but, that may be because mentally you feel nothing after the food eat meat other than tired and sluggish. A diet of meat makes our body of less functional, and we think the nourishing our bodies to our organs and blood, but we don't often think how we eat what the most important organ in our body can affect the brain.

When you start a vegetarian diet food, you feel physically light and fit. If your body is fit, your mind is also brightened. Most cultures, more is on spirituality and enlightenment are also vegetarian cultures. From the beginning of recorded history, we can see that vegetables have been the natural food of man. Greek and Hebrew Myths all spoke early of fruit as peoples original food. Meat was never eaten by old Egyptian priests. All vegetarianism was advocated by many great Greek philosophers such as Plato, Diogenes and Socrates.

Shakyamuni Buddha in India stressed the importance of ahimsa, the principle of harm any living being. He warned his disciples did not eat meat, otherwise other animals would be scared off. Buddha made the following observations: "meat eating is just an acquired habit." "At the beginning we were born with the desire for it." "People eating meat their inner seeds of mercy are cut off." "Eating meat is why people kill each other and eat each other... I eat you this life, and you eat me next life... and always so on." "How can they ever get free of the three areas (illusion)?"

These are the cultures, which are more enlightened and focused the spirituality more than Western culture. If we are to develop into more spiritual beings, then we must manage our physical life in a way that will improve our spirituality to begin with, and this means recognising the path of vegetarianism as a path to enlightenment.