Dilemmas and finding solutions

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Most likely people will always have differences of opinion on diet. It’s ok to share are views and take the best we can for ourselves and use them for our own lives. I am perfectly well suited to a vegetarian diet. I’m happy I was able to abruptly change my eating habits. Sometimes it is difficult to change our lifestyles and it may take time and effort. Even though it didn’t seem hard for me to suddenly give up meat entirely it hasn’t been as easy to give up other obstinate malignant habits, that have been discordant with other people. Because they continue to resurface in unsuspecting ways and I have had to face the fact that I’m not always the best devotee of spirit. I find myself continuing to attempt to follow moral principles, although sometimes I’ve made rather questionable errors that have led me to make my own justification for the actions I’ve taken. 

Looking beyond the diet we follow…. I find that my actions and responses to others are often based on their actions and responses to me. I’m not sure that would be the same for beings who have attained enlightenment. There are many factors in life that make our behaviors questionable and I’m attempting to not put myself in such circumstances that would compromise my principles. However, quite often we face difficult moral challenges that may not have a suitable outcome and we make decisions that later we find were not the same answers we would give to such dilemmas today. That is part of the life lessons we encounter to graduate from the lessons of this material existence.