In regards to eating meat

[Tenet Nosce]

For me, taking care of the body is not about longevity; it is about having integrity in all things, and caring for that which is under my care.

I get that more from you now, and this is something which makes a lot more sense to me. If one is coming at the situation from the standpoint of caretaking or stewardship of the body (or the animals or the planet), then I can see how this would lead one to eat less meat.

But that doesn't make meat-eating "wrong" from a spiritual perspective, any more than making smoking a cigarette or drinking alcohol "wrong". It is just another choice to be made and taken under consideration of the whole grand scheme of things.

Yes... everything is connected. Maybe there is some kind of karma associated with meat-eating. But what about the owner of a party store that sells liquor to an alcoholic who goes home and beats his wife? How responsible is that person, really?

In the end, we can take stewardship of physicality (our bodies, animal bodies, the physical earth, etc.) but we always run the risk of becoming identified with these things. Physicality is an illusion. We must keep this in the forefront of our minds if we want to evolve beyond it.