The human intestine is also much longer than that of carnivores, suggesting that our digestive system is optimised for plant foods - which require a longer fermentation and digestion time to release energy.

In other words, by nature the human being is primarily plant-eating. Only after we learned to use fire did we begin to cook, eat meat, and gradually drift from our original design.

2) Eating is taking in energy

Every living being survives on the Sun's energy - directly or indirectly.

Plants take it in through photosynthesis. Herbivores receive it by eating plants. Carnivores take it by consuming prey.

And each time energy passes through a level of the food chain, roughly 90% is lost (the '10% rule'). Which means:

- When we eat vegetables and roots, we receive energy closer to the Sun's source.
- When we eat meat, we receive secondary energy that has already been diluted many times over.

From an energetic perspective, eating vegetarian is like absorbing light nearer its origin - subtler, cleaner, and easier to transform.

Eating meat is like absorbing energy that is denser, heavier, and slower. It may suit a highly physical life, but it can lower one's vibration if it is not balanced by awareness.

3) Meat-eating and the mechanics of karma

From a spiritual perspective, every being is a form of conscious life; what differs is the degree of sensitivity.

The more intelligent a creature is, the more intricate its emotions, and the deeper its fear of death.

So in slaughter, an animal generates the energies of fear and pain - released into the blood and flesh (what some traditions call turbid energy).

When we eat it, that energy enters our biofield and can lower our frequency.

That is why practitioners who eat meat often find it harder to settle the mind, while those who eat vegetarian more easily purify and grow still.

Eating meat is not only taking in nutrients - it is also taking in the energetic 'memory' of that living being, including fear, resentment, or even gratitude.

4) Vegetarian eating - a path of purification and empathy

Plants are alive too, but their level of awareness is far lower and their emotional reactivity is minimal, so karmic imprint is nearly absent.

When we eat vegetables, roots, and fruit - especially fruit that ripens and falls naturally - we are moving with nature's cycle: not fighting, not killing, not taking by force.

Eating vegetarian is not to become 'holy', but to become clearer - so our energy can harmonise with the Earth's energy.

Fruit is the essence of life: the meeting point of yin and yang, Earth and Heaven.

To eat fruit is to take in balance - the foundation of peace in body and mind.

5) Eating meat - karmic conditions and evolution

And yet all things arise through conditions.

It is not accidental that a piece of meat appears on our plate. If it has arrived, there is a karmic connection between us and that being.

That animal nourishes us - and through us, its soul may evolve, completing its lesson and moving on to a higher rebirth.

For this reason, a person of higher vibration, eating with mindfulness and gratitude, does not create new karma - they transform old karma for both sides.

To eat unconsciously is to borrow; to eat with gratitude is to repay.

6) Eat according to conditions - keep the heart pure

For a beginner, vegetarian eating can be an effective method to purify the body, reduce agitation, and help the mind grow quiet.

But for one who has reached a high degree of wakefulness, food is no longer the central issue - because the mind is already pure; whatever is eaten is simply a manifestation of conditions.

It is not what enters the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth.

*(The Bible)*

What matters is not the dish, but the inner state while eating.

When we eat with love and gratitude, every meal becomes sacred.

7) The Middle Way of spiritual nourishment

Vegetarian or meat-based eating is not fundamentally a moral issue - it is a matter of energetic sensitivity and the level of awareness.

No extremes, no judgement - only wakefulness.

For someone who eats vegetarian while still heavy with anger is no different from someone who eats meat while living in love.

The right path is to eat with consciousness - and to live with gratitude.

When you eat, know where the food has come from.
Be grateful to Heaven and Earth, to plants, and to all beings that have nourished you.
Eat just enough: without greed, without waste.
Eat as a sacred rite - reconnecting you to the Whole.

8) Closing

Vegetarian or meat-based eating, in the end, is simply two phases of one and the same process of spiritual evolution.

One who has not yet understood may choose vegetarian eating to purify.

One who has truly seen eats with wakefulness - to return to unity.

To eat vegetarian with a restless mind is less refined than to eat meat with a peaceful mind.

When the heart and the food become One, every meal becomes light.

Hoàng Nhật Minh
Excerpt from the book: Spiritual Science - A Journey Back To Your True Self

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