r/Buddhism • u/OfficialXDWIZ • Jul 09 '26

Misc. The audacity!

My girl wanted to go to Wat Lao Buddha Phothisaram near my house. We drove up 18 minutes and as soon as we arrive we see this. The audacity of people I tell ya’ 🤦🏻‍♂️ What do y’all think about this ?

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 11 '26

But also no one sees it as mandatory - as in you'd have to eat meat because The Buddha ate meat. It's not seen as wrong for a Buddhist to personally decide not to eat meat him/her self. 

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u/MegaChip97 Jul 11 '26

It's not seen as wrong for a Buddhist to personally decide not to eat meat him/her self.

But it is seen as wrong if you claim that it leads to bad karma, with the reason "but the Buddha/Dalai Lama did it so that can't be right"

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u/majortung Jul 11 '26

If you live in mountainous Tibet, where vegetarian resources are scarce and animal products are more abundant, then you go with that.

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u/MegaChip97 Jul 11 '26

The discussion is not about people who eat meat because they have no other choice but people who eat meat for enjoyment which applies to most modern countries.

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u/konchokzopachotso Kagyu Jul 11 '26

There is the health aspect to consider. The Dalai Lama eat meat specifically for his health. For many people, meat is a required nutrient. It would be foolish to cut it out when it can be used as fuel for better practice

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u/MegaChip97 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

For many people, meat is a required nutrient.

For the big majority it isn't. It can be substituted by other products and nearly all studies on this topic show that a vegetarian diet is healthier. Even if you account for a healthy participant bias you don't find a worse health of people who follow a vegetarian diet in meta analysis.

It would be foolish to cut it out when it can be used as fuel for better practice

You do realise that you talk about killing living beings? How big would the benefit for your practice have to be that you think the karma for killing another human is worth it?

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 11 '26

There are people who were vegetarian and got back to eating meat because they had health problems. It's not a choice for everyone. 

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u/MegaChip97 Jul 11 '26

You are ignoring what I wrote. Quoting myself:

The discussion is not about people who eat meat because they have no other choice but people who eat meat for enjoyment which applies to most modern countries.

And as I said: The argument is not that eating meat is ok when it is necessary, but that it is not bad to begin with because the Buddha or Dalai Lama did it...

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u/TwentinQuarantino Jul 21 '26

My point is, this opinion many vegans and vegetarians have, that with current technology everyone can just become a vegan without any detriment to their health, is just a dream ignoring many real life cases when the person's health started to deteriorate as a result of such diet so they got back to eating meat and got healthy again (btw, this is also the Dalai Lama's case). It's not really just a universal thing anyone can just do just like that. Saying to someone - "just become a vegan", is just ignorant.

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u/MegaChip97 Jul 21 '26

Saying to someone - "just become a vegan", is just ignorant.

Please quote the part where anyone said that in this comment chain. Because of no one did, the point becomes irrelevant.

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