Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating

Tara Brach

Buddhism, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Concern for All Beings: Plant-Based Eating – A conversation with Tara Brach and Tricycle's editor-in-chief, James Shaheen -

A vegetarian diet, while encouraged in most schools of Buddhism, isn't a requirement of the Buddhist path. But there are powerful spiritual opportunities in embracing a plant-based diet. Following a vegetarian or plant-based diet is one way to practice compassion, reduce harm, and recognize our interconnectedness with all living beings and the earth itself. So what does the dharma say about vegetarianism? How might plant-based eating support our spiritual practice?

Tara and James discuss these and other important questions at the intersection of our dietary choices and spiritual path.

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0:00.0	Everyone, thank you for joining us. I'm James Shaheen, Christchurch editor and chief.
0:06.0	I'm happy to be here with you today for concern for all beings,
0:10.0	Kara Brock on Plant-based ED.
0:13.0	We will be leaving time for questions at the end of this hour long session.
0:17.0	You can ask a question by typing it into the Q&A tab at the bottom of the screen.
0:22.0	We'll get to as many of your questions as we can.
0:25.0	Today's Zoom session will be reported. We'll share the replay link and we'll follow up email.
0:31.0	My guest today is Kara Brock.
0:34.0	Kara is a meditation teacher, psychologist and author of several books including
0:39.0	International Best Selling Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion, and Trusting the Gold.
0:44.0	Her popular weekly podcast on emotional appealing and spiritual awakening is
0:49.0	downloaded three million times of a month.
0:52.0	Kara's teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices mindful
0:58.0	attention to our inner life and a full compassionate engagement with our world.
1:03.0	She is founder of the insight meditation community of Washington and has been active in bringing
1:08.0	meditation to the schools, prisons and underserved populations.
1:12.0	Along with Jack Warrenfield, Tara leads the mindfulness meditation teacher certification program
1:18.0	serving participants from 50 countries around the world. Welcome Tara.
1:23.0	It's a pleasure to be with you, my friend and all of you. Thank you for choosing to come.
1:29.0	Be with us.
1:30.0	It's great to see you. So Tara, I wonder if we could begin by first addressing highly charged feelings.
1:37.0	So many of us can have around our topic of plan based eating.
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