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Protect life

A spiritual discourse on compassion and the shared experience of suffering between humans and animals.

"Imagine you have just given birth to a child, and immediately, someone takes it away. How would you feel?"

"A mother is a mother; it does not matter if she is a human mother or an animal mother. Children are children; it does not matter if they are humans or animals."

The speaker delivers a powerful monologue, using visceral imagery to draw parallels between human and animal suffering. By asking the listener to imagine scenarios of profound loss, fear, and violent death, the discourse argues that the capacity for such feeling is universal. The central theme is that a lack of recognition of this shared sentience is the root cause of violence and suffering in the human world.

Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

Imagine you have just given birth to a child, and immediately, someone takes it away. How would you feel? You know where your child is growing up, and you know that in one month, they will kill it. How would you feel? Or when your grandfather dies, or your mother dies—how do you feel? Do you know how people felt during the Second World War when Jewish people were taken to the concentration camps? How their children felt? How the people themselves felt when they were locked in a room and gas was pumped inside? You know how afraid you are of death. And you know how you would feel if someone took you into a room or under a tree somewhere, put you on a table, took a knife, cut open your stomach, let the blood drain out, and then took out your flesh. Do you know how you would feel? Animals feel the same thing too. A mother is a mother; it does not matter if she is a human mother or an animal mother. Children are children; it does not matter if they are humans or animals. So, as long as humans do not realize this, there will be suffering among humans as well. There will be wars, there will be fighting, there will be criminals, and so on. Life is life; it does not matter if it is human life or animal life. Who are we to judge that humans can kill every other creature and eat them? Recording location: Hungary, Vep, Summer seminar

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