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A Drop in an Ocean

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About Me

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My name is Ning but I have no name. I am no one and nothing at all but I am everyone and everything in the universe.
All is so many
All is but One
None.

This is my philosophy :
A&nbspH&nbspI&nbspM&nbspS&nbspA = 'non harming, non injuring'
A = Abstinence from animal product.
H = Harmlessness with reverence for life.
I = Integrity of thought, word and deed.
M = Mastery over oneself.
S = Service to humanity, nature and creation.
A = Advancement of understanding truth.

Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.
-Robert Fulghum
But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
Elie Wiesel
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha *About Me and Veganism*

-I've been vegan for 7 years because I cried so hard when reading a book in Thai called "Nightmare at Midnight" It detailed pig and cow slaughters in a slaughterhouse. Next day while chewing pork and thought of that pig I cried and became vegetarian the next day. Not long after that I became vegan.
- I use only all-natural products because chemical products harm the environment, my health and the animals.
- The 2 best things ever happened to my life are being vegan and spirituality.
- I prefer to spend my money on healthy and organic foods and natural products though they are more expensive.
Being vegan....
- has changed my tastebud. Not really eliminated it but I don't feel any appetite when seeing dead flesh.
- has eliminated my ashtma (I had to spray medication into my nose because I could not breath (Maybe because of MILK), chronic skin rashes at feet, constipation and inflamed intestine.
- makes my heart full of peace knowing I don't cause pain to any being and maybe because I don't eat flesh that is contaminated with pesticides, hormones, adrenaline, etc.
- has changed my world, my every aspect of life and the ways I live. Veganism is a step to a freedom state of mind.
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine said "Let food be thy medicine, and let thy medicine be food."
"Men fed upon carnage, and drinking strong drinks, have all an impoisoned and arid blood which drives them mad in a hundred different ways."

~Voltaire (1694-1778)
"Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal."
~Ingrid Newkirk
~About Me and The Buddhist's Teaching~
The Buddhist's teaching has changed my life - my way of looking at the world. Not any of its dogmas and I'm not a Buddhist by name but by its core teaching which is the universal truth. It has eliminated my ignorance and made me look at the world as it is. Buddha said that even if he wasn't born, the truth still exists, he was just the one who found it. That truth is "there is no Me or Mine".
You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
- Zen Buddhism

Your Birthdate: May 11
Spiritual and thoughtful, you tend to take a step back from the world.
You're very sensitive to what's going on around you, yet you remain calm. Although you are brilliant, it may take you a while to find your niche.
Your creativity is supreme, but it sometimes makes it hard for you to get things done.
Your strength: Your inner peace
Your weakness: You get stuck in the clouds
Your power color: Emerald
Your power symbol: Leaf
Your power month: November I totally believe humans have walked the wrong path. We can see from many destructions in the world : environmental destruction, pollution, wildlife extinction, global warming, animal cruelties, war, corruptions, many diseases such as cancers, diabete, heart disease, etc. These problems are created by humans, by their ways of living, by their daily lives whether it's the foods they eat, their materialism, the chemical products they use, their selfishness, their wrong attitudes of the world around them. I hope they realize that they are walking in the wrong path and choose the right path, a path of spirituality, love and compassion, free of ignorance and selfishness. It will not only bring them true happiness and peace but also bring happiness and peace to the world and all living beings. As long as there is conscious life on Earth , there will be suffering. The question becomes what to do with the existence each of us is given. We can choose to add our own fury and misery to the rest, or we can set an example by simultaneously working constructively to alleviate suffering while leading joyous, meaningful, fulfilled lives. Being a vegan isn't about deprivation or anger. It's about being fully aware so as to be fully alive.
Matt Ball, Vegan Outreach

This is animal testing.
Arie Brecher, MD, head pediatrician in Holon, Israel: "The abolition of vivisection must be total.

In a single year in the USA one and a half million people have been hospitalized because of side-effects of drugs, which have all been preventively tested on animals.

Animals are comparatively different from humans and no animal species can serve as an experimental model for man.

Each animal has a genetic code of its own,

which is a fixed datum and characteristically unique in each species.

For this reason, a method that is based on the similarity between the species, while there are differences,

different genetic codes, can only lead medical science into error.

The mouse, the dog, the monkey, even when they are placed into the same environment, don't contract the same maladies. There simply can be no medical progress based on animal tests.
"I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
- Mohandas Gandhi

Sign the Pledge Against Animal Testing
For a list of companies that do and do not test go to this link:
http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_companies.asp
"...many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are lying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year." -Dr. Vernon Coleman, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
~George Bernard Shaw

"Spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
-Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948), Hindu pacifist & spiritual leader
"Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others. We are burial places."
- Leonardo Da Vinci

"The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork."
~Gandhi

Much of the indifference, apathy, and even cruelty we see has its origin in the false education given the young concerning the rights of animals, and their duty towards them.
~J.Todd Ferrier (1855-1943)
"To say the you behaved like animals is offensive to the animal creation because animals of the farmyard and field have an innate sense of decency."
-Justice Cusack
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....
~Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

My Interests

Veganism
Animal Rights
Human Rights
Animal Liberation
Saving the Environment
Transcendental State
The Spiritual Sides of Religions
The Buddhist's Teaching
Zen Buddhism
All-Natural Products
Refusing to take medicines (except natural ones).
Make-Up Free
Whole Foods
Against Human Breeding
Anti-Consumerism
Anti-Materialism
Trying not to spend money.
laughing for no reason.
rolling on the floor playing with my dogs and laughing loud.
being in the rain.
smiling and feeling good when I read good books.
the good feeling when I am in a car seeing cows eating grass by a roadside in the countryside. They are free and happy.
Fresh soy milk without sugar.
English accent.
Eating
bicycle.
being in nature.
doing nothing.

Each sip of milk provides you with the following:
Growth hormones, fat, cholesterol, allergenic proteins, blood, pus, antibiotics, bacteria, virus and more!


And when you consume milk, you contribute to this suffering of baby cows....

"There is no greater thrill than to look into the eyes of an animal, and to experience that moment when mutual understanding, even mutual communication occurs... That moment when the veil of millions of years of evolutionary seperation is lifted... That moment when you become one."

~Free me, I just wanna feel what life should be~
"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason?
nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer? "
-Jeremy Bentham, philosopher

No to Vegetarian

I'd like to meet:

YOU - THE GREAT SOUL, free spirits, vegans, vegetarians, animal rights activists, animal liberators, truth seekers, spiritual, revolutionaries, environmentalists, open-minded, not ignorant or not wanting to be, cherish all life, think outside the system.
"What is a charitable heart? It is a heart that is burning with charity for the whole of creation, for men, for the birds, for the beasts, for the demons - for all creatures. He who has such a heart cannot see or call to mind a creature without his eyes becoming filled with tears by reason of the immense compassion that seizes his heart, a heart that is softened and can no longer bear to see or learn from others of any suffering, even the smallest pain, being inflicted upon a creature. This is why such a man never ceases to pray also for the animals, for the enemies of Truth, and for those who do him evil, that they may be preserved and purified. He will pray even for the reptiles, moved by the infinite pity that reigns in the hearts of those who are becoming united to God."
~ St Isaac the Syrian

"To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being. I should be unwilling to take the life of a lamb for the sake of the human body. I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to the protection by man from the cruelty of man." ~Gandhi

MakeTradeFair.com

Your mind has become expert in destroying you, because your life consists of simple things. The whole existence is simple, but man's mind has been cultivated, conditioned, educated, programmed in such a way that the simplest thing becomes crooked. The moment it reaches to your mind it is no longer simple. The mind starts interpreting it, finding things in it which are not there, ignoring things which are there."
-Osho


The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference.
And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
-Elie Wiesel (Oct. 1986)


"I tell you that even though I do not know you and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you, I love you. With all my heart, I love you."
-V for Vendetta

Music:

Coldplay, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Blur, Travis, Stereophonics, Morissey, Keane, The Beatles, Manic Street Preachers, Death Cab for Cutie, Built to Spill, etc.

If you look to others for fulfillment,
You will never truly be fulfilled.
If your happiness depends on money,
You will never be happy with yourself.
-Lao Tzu

Movies:



The Emperor's Journey, The Pianist, Lion King (cried very hard in that), Finding Nemo, Chicken Run, American History X, The Village, Gladiator, The Last Supper (Thriller), Run Lora Run!, Forrest Gump, etc., Indie movies

Favourite actor is Joaquin Phoenix

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants."
~J. Botherton


"Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."
~Henry David Thoreau

Television:

rots your mind.

Do not think,
Do not imagine,
Do not analyze.
Do not meditate,
Do not reflect.
Abide in the natural state.
- The Six Rules of Tilopa


Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Loves possesses not nor would it be possessed; for love is sufficient unto love.
-Kalil Gibran


Books:

I have so many books with me that I want to read but no time yet.
Core of Buddhism by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu and Nightmare at Midnight have changed my life.
Krishnamurti and Osho's
Win Reawwarin's
Prabda Yoon's
Spiritual

"To For all my fellow beings (not only panda, chickens and dogs, I apologize on behalf of every human animal for exploiting, threatening, looking down, taking advantage of, imprisoning and murdering you. I hope our Karma will catch us up ." ~ from "Panda" (a novel) by Prabda Yoon .

Heroes:

Buddha, Vegans, Revolved spirits, Everyone, past and present who inspire me and make me who I am

Look for Buddha outside your own mind, and Buddha becomes the devil. - Dogen

"We first make our habits, and then our habits make us. All habits gather by unseen degrees, as brooks makes rivers, rivers run to seas."
-John Dryden 1631-1700


" There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting ."
-Buddha


My Blog

Gonna Buy That Cute Puppy From The Local Pet Store?

From: Critter Crossings All three of these dogs came through our rescue from "puppy mills" who then dumped them because they were no longer "useful"...Carli had the worst pyometris our vet has ever se...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:27:00 PST

If you're vegan but not edge....

Examples of smoking experiments on animals include :Cutting holes in beagles' throats through which the dogs are forced to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for a year.Inserting electrodes into do...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 12:56:00 PST

Big Pharma Kills You and Animals (Cartoons)

Thanks!: Pharmaceuticals KILL People & Animals!...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:18:00 PST

Soulmates

Bone of My Bone, Flesh of My Flesh"Losing through you what seemed myself, I find selves unimaginably mine..." sums up how our Soulmates help us to learn and grow in love, joy, and awareness.This is wh...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:54:00 PST

If you're only vegetarian and still consume dairy

Here's some things to think about.Calves at livestock auctions are often under one week old. They have been torn from their mothers, most of whom are still on dairy farms, hooked up to milking machine...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:47:00 PST

Some Ways to Help Stop Vivisection

Some ways to help stop Vivisection.Andi with an i says READ before you reactFirst, learn what it is...then, see my list.Strassa Nicoleviv·i·sec·tionnoun 1. the action of cutting into or dissecting a ...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:12:00 PST

Hurricane Rescue - adorable!

The story begins with the rescuers finding this poor little guy they named Ralphie that someone had already taken under their wing but weren ' t equipped to adopt; Ralphie, scared and starved, joined ...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:25:00 PST

One of My Musical Heros: Thom Yorke, baby! (Lyric to my Profile Song)

I effin love this song! Idiotheque - Radiohead Who's in a bunker? Who's in a bunker? Women and children first And the children first And the children I'll laugh until my head comes off I'll swallow un...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:56:00 PST

Goldfinger: Behind the Mask (Music Video)

Goldfinger: Behind the Mask (Music Video) ..>...
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:21:00 PST

The Oppose of "Supersize Me"

Film where overweight people w/ diabetes go on a raw vegan diet for 30 days....
Posted by A Drop in an Ocean on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:58:00 PST