The Only Refuge is in the Virtuous Way of Living Aug 24, 2008-Canada (In English) | |||||||||
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Questioner (m): Dearest Master, I would like to mention a
concern that we are having in Canada, as a result of global warming. Senior
scientists have been telling us that by the year 2013, we will have lost 80
percent of our forests here in British Columbia. The result of this is that the dead trees left behind are now producing five times more carbon dioxide into our atmosphere than all the planes, trains, trucks and utomobiles in the country combined. And many British Columbians now face the threat of forest fires and flooding due to this. And senior scientists are telling us that our best viable solution to this matter is by re-planting our country, (Supreme Master Ching Hai: Yes.) reforestation. So my question to you Master is, should we in our Canadian Quan Yin society, perhaps our little family, focus some of our attention on this, what is rapidly becoming a very important environmental concern, in the hopes of saving our forests and the little animals that live in them? Thank you, Master.
We are trying hard to do something, and nature itself is doing something else
also. Looks like we keep racing forever. So the only thing is we have to be
morally fit, and have to be virtuous. Otherwise, there’s no getting away from
the retribution for whatever we do, as you can see that. My goodness! Even if we
try to cut out carbon dioxide from the cars and transportation and all that,
and nature is doing something else to us, because we are not taking care of our
moral standard, and our virtuous way of life has been lacking somewhat, to some
degree. That’s why I keep telling people, the only refuge we can take is in our
own virtues. We have to be compassionate again. So, planting trees are good, but the tree we plant will not be
as big immediately like the tree that we have lost in this case, and in probably
many other forests around the world, which we have not discovered yet, or
that have not been reported. So planting trees alone is not the solution. It’s
not the absolute solution. We have to be vegetarian. The government will take
care of it, anyway, if the governments already know the problem with the forest,
then I’m sure they will mobilize many forces in the population or in a
governmental force, to plant some more trees. Because your group, no matter how
many you are, it’s not the whole Canada.
to live in harmony with all beings. To live and let live, be vegetarian and be green. That’s the utmost solution. And planting trees and all that is secondary. |
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