Being a Vegetarian

"...If we could establish a deep abiding relationship with nature we would never kill an animal for our appetite, we would never harm, vivisect, a monkey, a dog, a guinea pig for our benefit. We would find other ways to heal our wounds, heal our bodies. But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with the orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes thorough the cement, and the hills covered, hidden by the by the clouds."

from J. Krishnamurti's journal

I am going vegetarian. I don't know for how long, but claiming to be non violent I can' imagine what I am going to eat was once alive and breathing and was killed for me. I know, I know, it is just an animal, but the more I get into being one with everything the more it bugs me. My friend the other day order this huge bloody steak and the fact that it look like a piece of flesh is sticking in my mind....we must get back to nature if we are to survive. Start seeing the earth as your mother....whatever will work to help slow done the process of killing her/it!