All you do is just exchange that piece of meat for everything else that you treasure, including your children, your planet, your health, the air that you breathe, the water that you drink, the car that you even can continue to drive for a while, until we change it. Because if we eliminate animal livestock raising, then all the methane – the major cause of global warming – will be gone.

Please be quick! Please be quick before it's too late. I mean, the sooner the better.

Because even if it doesn't affect you, it affects millions of other people, every day. Even, for example, Bangladesh, every 6 minutes, while I'm sitting here laughing with you, one house is gone from their life – the house that they treasure, that they have memories and the children and grandchildren are going to grow up in it. It's not just a “nobody house.” It is something in there; it's a history of a human's lifetime of work and emotion and love and family ties. It's not just a number, like one house, and then one hour, eleven houses, and keeps counting like that.

Even if it doesn't concern us, how can we sit here and eat meat and then everybody else dies for that little piece of meat that we eat? And then… we don't even need to eat it! You won't die. You will only be more healthy. Healthier, happier, and you can save the whole human race and animals as well. Every day up to 270 species are erased. Every day. And nobody cares, or what? I mean, wait until it becomes our turn, then we say, “It's really urgent!” or what? No, we should not wait! Everybody else’s disaster should be our disaster, everybody else's house should be like our house, and when it's damaged, it should pain us just the same, like if we lose it. And their life’s lost also, their life’s saving is lost, and then they come out and they become homeless, and become like a beggar, have to rely on handouts to live.

Then, no more dignity for them. They are hardworking people; they had a home before. And because of the meat diet, everybody is losing their home in many different countries. Forty nations sinking or sunk already, small nations. Maybe small, but it's a nation, no? I mean, how small is small? Monaco, like 5 square kilometers. How small is the Vatican? One square mile. Right. How small can an island be? Many islands bigger than that already sunk beneath the sea. Nobody cares, because we don't live there. We don't see anything, or “They speak Chinese, I don't understand,” or “they speak Kiribati” or whatever, “we don't understand.” Not possible.

If we are human, we must have a heart. Otherwise, we are not human, we are like stones. Even stones have a heart, if they can show it. So, it's about time people should live like humans. If we call ourselves “human,” we have to live a humane life, no? Even before our house collapses, we have to consider other people's houses and stop the cause of it. We can do it, not like we cannot. We have the means to, especially the people who have houses and live in the so-called civilized society; they have money. Vegetables are even cheaper than meat, for God’s sake! No, it’s not, sorry, because of the subsidies for meat. Because if they don't subsidize the meat industry, the hamburger will cost like $30, instead, it costs only 99 cents. So everybody eats because it's cheap also. You see what I mean? Yes.

And everybody else who eats meat, or doesn’t eat meat, has to subsidize for that money, and then they buy it, they think it's cheap. They're eating their own money, too. See what I mean? It's all cheating. It's all illusion. It's nothing as real as it looks. So, instead of subsidizing the meat industry, we must subsidize organic vegan, organic farming.

So it's all in the hands of the lawmakers and us who have to go out and inform people as much as we can. But, you see, how many people can we inform with flyers and all that, you know? Even with Supreme Master Television, some people don't have TV. Some remote areas, they don't have TV, or they don't have the means for computer. Or if they have a computer, it's too slow or something; they can't get it. All kinds of things, I can never take care enough. I'm telling you. I did everything I can, but still somewhere it's lacking something that they couldn't get it, they couldn't get the TV, the news.

You see what I mean? Yes. So, you cannot blame the people. They don't know. Just one leads to another and they've been indoctrinated into eating meat and drinking milk, otherwise they “don't have enough muscle protein” and all that. People are poor people.

Nobody knows because everybody believes what the experts say, no? And the experts, they lobby the government to say that. And the government, let's face it, the government also does not know. I'm telling you the truth. It's not like every person who sits in the government office knows everything about nutrition and milk; they don't know also. So, if the meat industry lobbies some of the people in the government and those people say, "Meat is good, good, good" and everybody thinks, "Okay, good, good, good." Protein, you know?

Meat eating not only is detrimental to our health, it is the cause, for us, that we cannot get in touch with our true Self also. You see? That's why most people, sometimes they're good, sometimes they are bad; they don't know why. Sometimes when their stomachs are empty, and they're sincere or they're in sorrow, they’re more connected with the inside. And when their time is smooth and they drink and eat, they don't know anything anymore, so they’re disconnected again, you see? Even the people who are not practicing the Quan Yin Method, they're connected now and again with the Divine. Therefore, now and again they can sustain their life on this planet and then continue like that.

That's why they don't live very well, but they do live. You see what I mean? Like a person who is sick, but not completely dead, still can move around, but not completely well. That's like that. See? So the person who completely connects with himself and practices that connection more and more every day, then he has more abundance, more health, more clarity in the head, more wisdom, more compassion, which is himself. Compassion is not from Heaven. Compassion is not from the vegetarian diet. Compassion is inherent within all of us. The vegetarian diet is just the proof of it: that you have compassion, that you don't want to eat others.

How come they survived and the other Venuses didn’t? (Yes.) How does their evolution allow them to continue? Because they are more virtuous. The other two Venuses, they were living a vicious life. They lived in vice. They did not know God. They did not respect anything that they didn’t see, and they concentrated more on developing their material comfort.

Therefore, they had too much comfort. They had everything they wanted. Everything is almost like heavenly life, except devoid of spiritual, moral, and divine quality. And not only that, they persecuted anyone who dared to oppose them or mention anything about the invisible quality of Heaven or about God. Anyone who was living a virtuous life, this was like “state enemy.” They’d hunt them down. They’d kill them mercilessly. It was a terrifying place to live for anyone who had a little conscience. Their conscience was zero.

Their moral standard was zero. Their tolerance for God and divinity was zero. So, it was because of this and the meat diet, combined, that destroyed the other two planets. Whereas the two surviving planets, although they still have some percentage of meat eaters – one-fourth, 25% of people still have meat, but very much less, lesser degree. Not like they have it every day or three meals a day. It’s not like that. Even then they have reverence in their heart, and they are trying to also go into a more merciful lifestyle, compassionate vegan diet.

So the balance is very, very well in check, you see? Three-fourths, they’re vegetarian, vegan, and the one-fourth is meat eater, but very much less in degree, very much less in quantity . Then they all worship God, they revere the spiritual persons or beings or practitioners. They encourage moral behavior within their society and they teach moral obligation, compassionate lifestyle, merciful attitude in school, from kindergarten already, by example and by positive encouragement. In school, they teach, already, children how to be kind to each other, how to be kind to their planet, how to be kind to other co-inhabitants, like animals, you see?

So, animals and men live in harmony with each other. And children, have been taught already moral standards, mercy behavior, since childhood already, so they grow upto become wonderful citizens. The meat eaters and the meat providers, they live in remote areas, shamefully, far away from the sight of the people. And they don’t encourage that in public. Just like right now we forbid smoking in public, over there, forbid meat eating in public. Therefore, even the meat eaters, they feel ashamed and they know it’s wrong, and even if they still have some, they always try to minimize it. You understand me?

Yes, Master. A meat eater over there is allowed but is like an outcast, and they feel it; but some people are not as developed as others, so they just tolerate it. But because the numbers do not outweigh the vegetarian, therefore their planet’s merit and peaceful atmosphere is prevalent. Their planetary merit is in balance … overweighs balance, yes. So, even though one-fourth of the people are meat eaters, very little or less, still they are covered by the three-fourths of the other benevolent energy. You see what I mean?

Yes, Master. And because the society as a whole already supports a compassionate vegan diet, and other meat eaters, even though they do it, they know it’s wrong. And so they have repentance in their heart also. So that’s the way they preserve their planet. Not because they wanted to maybe, but because they know it as a way of life and they have been brought up like that since they were children.

So, they become very powerful in spiritual merit and thus they can protect their planet. If all these Venus populations, of course, if 100% of them were vegetarian or vegan – then their planet would even be better; better than just survive and prosper and progress, and be technologically superior like that. But will be superior, will be just like Heaven in the physical dimension. Right now it’s like, of course, like 80% Heaven, or 70%, but if they all become vegan, then of course their planet will experience much more upliftment in the spiritual dimension.

And as the planet lifts itself up, as the population lifts their consciousness, again up, there will be more and more miracles happening. There will be more internet access to all the corners of the world that there has not been before, or there will be more satellite services in different countries and different corners of different countries. Then more and more people will be informed, and more and more will be uplifted.

But, nevertheless, their soul listens because we are interconnected. And the frequencies of radio or televisions are also permeated in the atmosphere. This kind of positive energy and constructive news, it will reach the recess of their mind, and they will somehow get it also, without even watching the Supreme Master Television; but in some way more subtle.

Then they will also awaken. We just need to be patient, and praying a lot, praying a lot to all the gods and goddesses, all the divine beings, all the angels, to help us to manifest themselves physically onto this planet and help each and every citizen of the world to awaken to a compassionate lifestyle so that they can escape from this dilemma that is terrifying everybody at the moment, be it swine flu or planetary climate change. So be it. Yes, Master. We have all the gods and goddesses to thank. Thank you, Master.

You must have really strong faith, you must have the heart to serve others, you must have compassion for animals, you must have sincerity and respect, then anyone who comes in will also feel that atmosphere.

Tune in to Supreme Master Television on Friday, September 24, for Supreme Master Ching Hai’s discussion entitled “Serve Others with Your Heart” on Between Master and Disciples.

Tune in to Supreme Master Television today for our program entitled “Serve Others with Your Heart” on Between Master and Disciples.