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vegansofig:

It’s a common misconception that the leather industry is a by-product of the meat industry. It is not. Animal skins turned into leather are a $1.5 Billion dollar industry, which directly supports factory farming/ slaughter houses by accounting for 25% of their profits.
The meat and dairy industry is not only heavily subsidized in the US by the government, but the profit from the sale of animal skins is essential to their business. The animals are forcefully bred in overcrowded hideously filthy, disease ridden, factory farms where they live in confinement and are subject to beatings, electric ⚡ shock, forcibly impregnated, endure painful mutilations without pain relief such as castration, branding, dehorning, tails being cut off or broken, teeth removed, testicles ripped out, and harmful hormone and antibiotic injections. They suffer not only these physical abuses but mental as well, they are taken away from their mothers at birth and develop neurotic behaviors due to confinement and torture.
I don’t know what glue you’re sniffing, but leather is NOT eco friendly. In the natural process of biodegrading the skin is the first element to rot or decompose. In order for that not to happen the skin must be treated with toxic chemicals. There are 225 chemicals used in the tanning process many of which are mordents, better known for their association with the funeral industry. That “new leather smell” is actually a chemical reaction between the skin, formaldehyde and chromium salts.
Other toxic chemicals used are lead, cyanide, arsenic, azo dyes, aniline and chlorophenols to name a few. These chemicals make the hide no longer organic matter, therefore it does not decompose. Historians have found preserved leather dating to 5000 BC. Leather requires more energy, much more space and a great deal more labor to produce than synthetics.
I don’t care how cute you think those shoes are—-> Leather is dead skin. It’s bad for the environment and the animals. Stop buying it. #vegansofig
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If you are interested in buddhism or other spiritual paths, try them out. Just reading about a spiritual path is like choosing a car by reading about it. You need to try it out. And meditate frequently; meditation is pretty important. Otherwise you won’t be able to understand what is really being said at times.

If you completely understood living a life full of compassion, then you wouldn’t need to ask the origin of it. Compassion is good enough on its own. It is only your mind that seeks answers to such questions.

But sometimes the mind needs to be put to rest. Perhaps you need an answer to this question so you can stop wondering and start just being compassionate.

I would say that compassion arises when you begin to see your Self
(not your ego but the vibrant emptiness within you) in everything you meet in the moment. Form is emptiness and emptiness is form. Compassion is the emotion of the whole Cosmos when it recognizes itself. Compassion is definitely a cosmic feeling made relevant to the moment.

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Have an insight, for example, into the wounds and hurts that one has received from childhood. All people are hurt for various reasons, from childhood until they die. There is this wound in them, psychologically. Now, have an insight into the whole nature and structure of that hurt. You are hurt, wounded psychologically? You may go to a psychologist, analyst, psychotherapist, and he may trace why you are hurt; from childhood, your mother was this and your father was that and so on, but by merely seeking out the cause, the hurt is not going to be resolved. It is there. The consequences of that hurt are isolation, fear, resistance, so as not to be hurt more; therefore there is self-enclosure. You know all this. That is the whole movement of being hurt. The hurt is the image that you have created for yourself about yourself. So as long as that image remains you will be hurt, obviously. Now, to have an insight into all that - without analysis - to perceive it instantly, then that very perception is insight; it demands all your attention and energy; in that insight the hurt is dissolved. That insight will dissolve your hurt completely, leaving no mark, and therefore nobody can hurt you any more. The image that you had created about yourself no longer exists.

― Krishnamurti

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