Videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai in Penghu, Formosa (Taiwan).

With patience and steadfast concern for the future of humanity, Supreme Master Ching Hai has continued with meetings on climate change with our Association members, most recently in Penghu, Formosa. During the videoconference, Supreme Master Ching Hai once again emphasized that to avoid global calamity in time, we must rely on our moral actions rather than on technology.




Our Association member: Hallo, Master. ( Hallo.) According to a report from the Taiwan National Applied Research Laboratories, experts have detected a large undersea reservoir of methane on the sea floor southwest of Formosa that includes the sea area of Penghu. With the urgency of global warming, if technology is not developed in time to transform this methane layer under the ocean to a form of natural gas for human use, what can we do to avoid disasters caused by the methane released from the ocean and its poisoning of the air? Thank you, Master!

Supreme Master Ching Hai : If we have more merits, our technology will be more developed and scientists will be able to think of a way to extract the gas to benefit the people, instead of letting it harm them. It depends on our merits, not only on technology. If we do not have enough merits, we won’t be able to find the technological invention. So, our most important task is to advocate the vegetarian diet and moral aspects.

Only if we are moral, can we avoid disasters. Then we can invent more good technology. Otherwise, if we continue harming other people and animals, no matter how developed our machinery is, other problems will emerge.

VOICE: We sincerely thank Supreme Master Ching Hai for taking time from her full schedule to bring this encouragement and clearer understanding to us. With a focus on practicing more love for all beings, surely we can remedy the root cause of global warming and naturally progress toward a paradise on Earth.

Please tune in to Between Master and Disciples on Supreme Master Television at a later date for the broadcast of this videoconference with Supreme Master Ching Hai, with multi-language subtitles.


World awaits “Meat the Truth” documentary.

 Following the world premiere of “Meat the Truth” in London, UK in May, word is spreading fast about the Dutch documentary that links meat production to climate change. With its tour of the Netherlands nearly complete, additional screenings are soon coming to major cities worldwide, such as New York, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, USA; Barcelona, Spain; Dresden, Germany; Beijing, China and Sydney, Australia. The film’s project manager, Karen Soeters, shares the message of the film at the recent World Vegetarian Congress held in Dresden.


Karen Soeters, Project Manager of “Meat the Truth” documentary, Director of the Nicolaas G. Pierson Foundation (F): This is a message to the world: Please eat less meat, because it’s very important. Not only for animal welfare and global warming, but also for biodiversity and to make sure that hunger in the world will end very soon. Thank you very much.

VOICE: We thank Ms. Soeters and all involved in the sharing of this vital information with the world. We can’t wait to see “Meat the Truth” on silver screens everywhere, showing the most important way to make a difference for the planet!

Eating meat causes world hunger.

An article by Chris Holbein of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), points out that 40 million tons of food could resolve the needs of the approximately 854 million people who are going hungry in the world today. Yet, humans instead feed 760 million tons to farmed animals that will eventually be killed. In the US alone, the grains and soybeans being fed to innocent cattle could feed 1.4 billion people.

As The Guardian’s George Monbiot said about veganism, “[I]t now seems plain that it’s the only ethical response to what is arguably the world’s most urgent social justice issue.”
You have our sincere gratitude, Mr. Holbein and the many websites that have shared this information. We pray that people quickly switch to a plant-based diet for all beings’ adequate sustenance and to restore the balance of our Earth.


http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-MqEKk9k8er93iv.A4j6CcPaXFOY-?cq=1&p=4899


Climate change and disease threaten Britain’s native trees. 

The country’s oak, beech, chestnut and ash trees, many of which stand as ancient pillars of tradition, have not adapted well to the weather conditions brought on by climate change. Oak trees are also suffering from a fatal fungal disease, and half of the nation’s 2 million chestnut trees have become victim to a disfiguring canker condition. In one location, 150 beech trees planted over 170 years ago had to be felled recently because they had perished from the recent dry summers and wet winters.

Our appreciation United Kingdom for bringing this unfortunate situation to the public’s awareness.  May the adaptation of a greener lifestyle along with replanting efforts help restore the time-honored beauty of the British woodlands.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2493606/Traditional-forests-endangered-by-climate-change-and-disease.html


Climate change comes to Tibetan plateau.

As the planet’s third largest storehouse of ice after the Arctic and Antarctic, scientists are raising the alarm about the condition of the Tibetan plateau. With temperatures that have risen at a rate of 0.3 degrees Celsius each decade over the last fifty years, which is three times the global average, 82 percent of the plateau’s glaciers have already retreated, and degradation of the region’s permafrost have been noted as well. Climate change in the Himalayas has far-reaching consequences for the world as snowmelt feeds the largest rivers across Southeast Asia, including the Yangtze, Yellow, Mekong, Ganges and Indus rivers. If the melt of glaciers and snowpack continues, monsoon weather patterns would be disrupted and water supplies for billions of people would be endangered.

Our heartfelt thanks to the scientists and journalists who are alerting us to the critical melting on the Tibetan plateau. May we heed this warning and take the opportunity now to adopt sustainable living practices like the vegetarian diet, as the quickest way to stabilize our precious planet.

http://www.enn.com/climate/article/37850 http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3420