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雲水
@foodofthegods3
To become more spiritually sensitive, learn to listen to your body—then eat whatever feels right. Key: the ‘spiritual’ part is never in the food but in the bodily awareness.
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@jardinsecret888
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To become more spiritually sensitive eat less meat
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雲水
@foodofthegods3
You are not spiritually sensitive if you make a value distinction between animal and plant life. You should feel exactly as deep a gratitude and blessedness for an onion or tomato having sacrificed itself for your nutrition, as you do for a cow. That’s the spiritual part.
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@jardinsecret888
Not necessarily a value distinction, but a different order of complexity. People have always distinguished between animal, vegetable and mineral souls. I hear your point about vegetables though— Soviets did experiments that found cabbages would emit electrical “screams” when cut
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雲水
@foodofthegods3
Yes, that's true. But still I think: higher order of complexity != less ok to eat. It's certainly a very nuanced issue—there's just so much pushing towards the crude dichotomy that "meat bad plants good" in spirituality.
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