Considerable amount of my time in the latter months of last year was invested in pondering (and here) on the book Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran (without even reading the book).
Besides the dissonance of eating other creatures for umami, the best lesson to be learnt from Jonathan is how to keep the passion and politeness in balance. Great messages and messiahs have been lost in time since most of them got carried away by the passion (leading to perceptual ad hominem).
Zen master Linji (founder of Buddhist sect Rinzai) said - "If you meet the Buddha on the road, kill him". Of-course it doesn't imply literally but yet we can interpret this phrase in lot of ways. I usually like to interpret this in a non-religious way. It's never about us and its about the message we carry. Drowning in self-admiration, pride, ego et al completely negates the message, leave alone the significance of the message. I admire Jonathan's syllogism, which is always in prefect harmony without even a tinge of emotions going off balance.
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