(Sklarm) How to make vegan pizza (including crust) video tutorial
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THE VEGAN (Lyn Rose)
Beautiful vegans are nade not born. It's never too early to become compassionate and steward for the environment. The Judeo-Christian Bible never really gave us "dominion" over animals and nature, so much as entrusted us with stewardship over them, which means that humans in line with their divine potential are caretakers of this planet. The Buddhist attitude towards nature is even clearer: We are not simply a part of nature, and we are never apart from it, but at every moment we are interdependent with everything around us. The sooner we recognize it, the closer we approach the mystical state of non-duality, perceiving only the interconnectedness of all life, animate and inanimate. "When I change, the world changes." Buddhist need not join the World Vegan Society or grow vegan kids, because caring enough to at least go vegetarian on lunar observance days (quarter, new, and full moon days) is a great thing. Observing "Meatless Mondays" is enough. Going halfitarian, simply eating twice as much healthy animal-free foods than we do now, is enough.
"A human being is a part of the whole called the 'universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of... consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself part of the liberation and foundation for inner security."
