Why I am a Vegan

[I am Shayne]

My understanding is that our planet is doing this willfully.  We are welcomed here, even if once here we trash the place.  Meanwhile, I have absolutely no idea how I would ever welcome mosquitoes to my body in the same way.  So our planet is definitely awesome ! 
 

This is a passage from Zen Master Raven; a light hearted zen dialogue between animals. This one having to do with appreciating mosquitoes:


One night after a meeting, the Tallspruce community lingered in the dark under the stars, and Raven reminisced about his time with Brown Bear. “I remember,” he said, “one day when I wasn’t feeling well, and Brown Bear Roshi had me rest in his cave. Somehow it was a special gatering place for mosquitoes. One of them suspended herself before my face. She was almost not there – so fragile, her long, thread-like legs hanging down motionless. I marveled that she was a living being with appetites and incentive, yet hardly more than a gossamer.
“In our sutras we chant the lines ‘Forms are no other than emptiness; emptiness no other than forms.’ Sometime earlier when I was looking up at the night sky, I thought I understood that passage, but when I was resting in Brown Bear’s lair and I felt that mosquito sink her long proboscis into my face, I was at last able to appreciate the mystery.