Live the Dharma

As I spend my days toiling in my own obscurity, for some reason wishing that I could become more than what I already am, I’m confronted with an array of choices, varying from simple to complex. And even though I still struggle with my own mortality, and my own impact on this world, there is one place that I believe I can make an impact, and that’s in choosing not to cause harm to innocents people and/or creatures.

I’ve been a vegetarian for just over 10 years now, and though I try not to preach or look down at people that aren’t, I do want to get something off my chest…

I don’t know if there is a heaven or a hell.

I don’t know if Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, Krishna, or any other deity really exists.

I don’t know anything really, but I do know this:

I can never look into the eyes of an animal and proceed to take its life.

I know that if there’s any way that I can help something in this world, it’s that I can refuse to take its life, whether intentionally or unintentionally.

I’m just as lost as this elephant running from men, the rabbit running scared in the forest, and as the zebra running from the lion. There is panic, hurt, and vengeance as far as the eye can see. My best way to live my dharma is by not adding to it.