The task of our generation: to end animal abuse.

Our mantra: “Why cause harm and suffering to others if it is entirely unnecessary?”

Systems change: governments will only act when the public demand change.

Our tool: to end the governmental subsidies: despite overwhelming evidence of meat and dairy damaging our health and environment, it is still hugely subsidised through the Euroepan CAP (Common Agricultural Policy)

How Observation Changes Relationships by Vimala Thakar

When we sit in silence what do we do? We sit and observe the voluntary and involuntary activities of the body and mind. Slowly the voluntary activities come to an end, but the involuntary activities we have inherited from birth, from our family, religion, race, nationality -which fill the mind – go on, and we sit and observe their unfoldment.

Since we are used to working all the time we may find it difficult at first to sit quiet, or the body may fall asleep due to accumulated fatigue. If it happens it is desirable to rest the body for a few days until it is fresh again. While you sit in silence, thoughts will arise, as the mind has been working for 24 hours. The thoughts cannot be suppressed nor can they be thrown away anywhere, you can only watch them, not naming them as good or bad. Then you are free from the roles of an experiencer and an actor, you enter into the state of an observer of non-reactional attention.

As soon as the mind begins moving and says: “I like” or “I dislike” what it sees, there is a disturbance, a burdening of the mind and the role of the observer is lost and you are once more immersed into the roles of an experiencer and actor. If you do not react to the thoughts you are observing, if they no longer have the power to elicit any reaction from you then they will subside of their own accord.

Through observation thoughts subside, hence the strain and pressure they cause on the neurological and chemical systems are also lifted. It is this tension that brings about anti-social behavior.

Pain and pleasure are not taken further than the present moment; thus no grudges or attachments are formed. The art of living is to live completely in the moment, not carrying any residue over to next incident, person or day.

"Nonfear and nonattachment are more precious than money or material wealth.
Fear spoils our lives and makes us misserable.
We cling to objects and people, like a drowning person clings to any object floating by."

Thich Nhat Hanh, Fear.

One question keep bugging me:

Is there such a thing as human´s innate selfishness?

If the answer to this question is no, could we then:

a) live in a world where everyone shares what they have?

b) live in a world where people have free access to food, water and shelter, just as nature provides it to all living beings?

c) live in a world where people respect all other living beings and strive to minimize the suffering they create while living?

d) live in a world without private property of the land?

PSM, Helsinki

Monday 18th February 2013.

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about." Charles Kingsley

Private Property is Theft

"Tracing back the origin of any piece of property through a succession of “legitimate” transfers, we eventually get to the first owner-the one who simply took it, the one who separated it off from the realm of “ours” or “God’s” into the realm of “mine.” P.J. Proudhon

Excerpt taken from Charles Eisenstein´s "Sacred Economics

We need to stop "becoming" and to start "being".

 PSM, Helsinki 6th February 2013.