WARNING: This page contains images that are NSFW / may offend you. If you’ve got a weak stomach, please go back to my homepage to read a happier story 🙂 —– As Bryan, Jean Mei and Joy were leaving Kechara Forest Retreat (KFR) today, they spotted one of “our” dogs lying on the ground. He […]

Wow, it has been an absolutely CRAZY 72 hours! All of this began on Friday night, when Rinpoche and a small group of us went up to Genting (read about part of the trip here). On our way down, we came across a pack of stray dogs so we stopped to feed them. On getting […]

treekisser: Accountability in Our Diets If you wouldn’t personally castrate an animal without anesthetic, if you wouldn’t work at a factory farm, if you wouldn’t take a baby away from his mother, if you wouldn’t brand someone’s skin, if you wouldn’t cut off beaks, toes or tails, if you wouldn’t deprive someone of light, if […]

The stamina of a camel, the strength of an elephant, and the beauty of a horse are all sustained on a vegetarian diet

If you say you don’t have money to help a animal shelter, why then do you have money to buy meat? – Tsem Tulku Rinpoche

Drinking milk from another species of animal: The more I think about it, the stranger the concept becomes. (Taken from Google)

The philosophy of our profession is about balance and harmony between man and nature. Man has a close relationship with nature. We could also say man and nature are One. So no matter whether hunting or farming bears for bile, I think both are not good. This is against the principle of balance and harmony, […]

(Taken with my iPhone) Day 3 of aviary duty, and already the birds have it in for me. You see that blood on his beak? My blood, not his. I have some sort of weird karma with birds and them attacking me.

(Taken with my iPhone) The little monster pictured is Dharma, Rinpoche’s new dog. On the day Dharma was brought home to the Ladrang, Rinpoche rescued three other dogs from the pet shops. All of them have now since been rehomed to good families (including my old English Literature teacher!). Many people have issues with pet […]

(Taken with my iPhone) Gone fishing? Gone vegan. One week ago, I announced on Facebook that I was going vegan for a week. I had little idea of what that really meant until I started doing research – no animal products or by-products whatsoever, including sugar, honey, leather, gelatine, etc. So how has the week […]