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Video Information: An interview with Kip Andersen, 29.03.2017, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
~ Which food should we take?
~ How to know, which food is eatable?
~ How to understand the veganism?
~ Would bringing the focus to our diet change anything?
~ What is the corelation between food and climate?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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Video Information: An interview with Kip Andersen, 29.03.2017, Advait Bodhsthal, Noida, India
Context:
~ Which food should we take?
~ How to know, which food is eatable?
~ How to understand the veganism?
~ Would bringing the focus to our diet change anything?
~ What is the corelation between food and climate?
Music Credits: Milind Date
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00:00In a sense, it's like premonition or prophecy or anything, I don't know, in the scriptures
00:29or even with yourself, do you see us heading in a direction towards this perfection, completion,
00:38along with our diet and what not?
00:41I'm seeing that, I'm seeing that, I'm seeing that.
00:43You see, it is not for nothing that the Buddhas of this world have been speaking, walking,
01:08striving.
01:11On one hand is the wave of the intellect, productionism, consumerism.
01:27On the other hand is also the entire stream of mystics, saints, people who respond to
01:42the call of the heart.
01:49If you look at the last few centuries, even the declaration of rights of man came just
02:03300 years back, then came the declaration of rights of slaves, and in the last century
02:16came the declaration of rights of women.
02:26I'm seeing that in the current century, we will see a very clear declaration of a new
02:37relationship between man and environment.
02:44Climate change will catalyze that new relationship, the threat of climate change.
02:57In a superficial way, it will be called as an acceptance of the right of animals to live.
03:07Just as last century saw man accepting the rights of women to vote, you will soon see
03:22a broad consensus emerging on the right of all species to live and survive in their own
03:31particular way, whether or not that way is agreeable to man.
03:36That will happen, that has to happen.
03:40That has to happen for mankind's dignity and mankind's survival.
03:49Mankind cannot survive even in a physical way, and I'm just talking about the self-interest
03:53of mankind.
03:54Mankind cannot survive in the physical way if mankind does not know how to relate with
04:06stuff outside of his own body.
04:12It would be simply calamitous.
04:16So those who will understand will live out of understanding and hence live in a harmonious
04:29way, in a way of love, and those who will not understand will be compelled because
04:37of their own self-interest to live harmoniously, otherwise their physical survival will be
04:44threatened.
04:45So both ways, both ways it is going to be very fresh and very new.
04:55If you really understand what it means to love a jungle, wonderful.
05:06And even if you do not know what it means to love a jungle, you still better respect
05:13the jungle, otherwise you will be eliminated.
05:20That is going to happen.
05:23After men, slaves, women, homosexuals, transgenders, now it's the turn of animals to assert their
05:39rights in their own way.
05:41They will, they are, they are doing that already.
05:47It does feel like in just even the past few years that it's happening, right, I've been
05:58doing this for 10 years or so, just in the past few years, does it feel like that to
06:03you or just things are happening faster now and like you said these progressions?
06:09Yes of course, things are happening faster now.
06:11You see, when I look around, even in this gathering, there are these 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
06:196, 7 of us are males and each one of us is carrying a beard.
06:24Do you know what the beard implies?
06:27The beard indicates our animal nature.
06:30So mankind is more readily accepting its animal nature, we are not as suppressive of ourselves
06:37as we used to be.
06:40Have you not seen this?
06:42Have you just noticed the proportion of men sporting beards these days?
06:48And it's, I hope, just not a passing fad.
06:53This means that I'm all right with my hair and the hair indicates the animal.
06:59I'm all right with my hair, I don't really have to shave it all off.
07:03The razor is society, the razor is the intellect, the razor is the intellect.
07:11Man is becoming more comfortable with his own skin and in his own skin.
07:19Man is seeing that to be a man is to have God in the heart and the soil in the body.
07:40One has to be very comfortable with the soil, very, very comfortable.
07:45And the soil has all the animals, the soil has all the jungles.
07:49If you are not comfortable with the animals and the jungle, you will never be comfortable
07:55with yourself.
07:56Bearded, you are likely to be less afraid of the dog, believe me.
08:11Have you seen how most people are so suspicious even of street dogs?
08:23Those who are suspicious and afraid even of a little puppy or a cow, to them I say, keep
08:39your beards.
08:42The beard is not merely facial hair, it is more than that, it is more than that.
08:54That does not mean that I'm a beardist or something, it's just that I saw all of us
09:03having this, so I found it apt to use the beard as a symbol, as an example.
09:13It is changing, it is obviously changing.
09:17You see, whatever technology had to offer, a lot of that it has already offered.
09:25You look at physics, physics is reaching its boundary.
09:32Man was living in hope, in utopia, that the solution to the internal discomfort will come
09:42from outside, from science, from technology, from objects, from material.
09:46It has not arrived from there.
09:49So that hope has been shattered.
09:52The expectations that we had from the machine have not been answered.
09:59The machine has failed.
10:00The machine did what it could and the machine has been useful, but the machine has not given
10:06to us what we really wanted from the machine.
10:09Knowledge and science have not really given us what we really wanted from them.
10:14Internally man is still hungry, internally man feels still an alien and dispossessed.
10:24If you look into man's eyes, they are still searching, rootless, wandering.
10:32Man is still looking for his anchor, for his source.
10:40So man will have to necessarily look into some other direction.
10:52Inside all the directions have been exhausted.
10:55So now only one direction is left, inside.
11:00Man will have to look inside and when you look inside, you will find there is a little
11:04rabbit there, an elephant there, a whale there, some fish there, lots of trees there, all
11:11these birds there.
11:12It will be difficult for you then to have them for breakfast.
11:18What would it be like then consuming your own liver for breakfast?
11:22How sane is that?
11:24Well, I think it's awesome, is there any final things you'd like to share?
11:45There is no need to suffer, there is just no need to suffer.
11:53Most of that which we do arises out of the suffering principle, the principle that suffering
12:05is obligatory.
12:11It is the easiest thing to see, but also the most difficult thing to communicate.
12:18It is not necessary to suffer.
12:21The moment you know that it is not necessary for you to suffer, you also stop living in
12:29a way that makes others suffer.
12:33The moment you know that your own life can be alright is also the moment when you stop
12:50messing with others' lives, stop suffering and you would also then stop being an agent
12:59of suffering.
13:03Withdraw from the support that you give to your own suffering, withdraw the support that
13:11you give to your own suffering and you will find now there is no motivation left to make
13:19others suffer.
13:22That must be obvious.
13:23The more you suffer, the more you want to make others suffer.
13:26Don't suffer, don't suffer, all suffering is totally needless.
13:33Suffering itself is sin, don't suffer.
13:39See the squirrel agrees with us.
13:43He gave us a tails up just now.
13:51Don't suffer, don't suffer, don't suffer.
13:57All suffering is totally foolish.
14:01One is not born to suffer.