22/05/2025
Question: The first point of the five precepts doesn't talk about plants. Are they not sentient beings? Can we take their lives?
Supreme Master Ching Hai: Yes. They have a more neutral kind of energy, and we temporarily should take them in order to survive. They do not suffer so much like animal-people, so we are allowed to take them as nourishment. For example, if you cut one branch of peppermint, it will grow three, four, five branches after that. But if we cut an arm, a leg of a pig-person, it will not grow two, three more legs.
- Questions and Answers Excerpts from the lecture "The True Essence of Our Being" with Supreme Master Ching Hai (vegan) in Budapest, Hungary / 1999.05.24
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