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“The 12 step program”
Much of the strength that you will need to complete this task you will aquire from association with others who share the same problem. So we strongly recommend you to do do some research to find out whether there is any Ministry or Embassy for the Spoonrevolution close to you where you can share your experiences from the 12-step program with other vegetarians or vegans.
First Step
"To admit our powerlessness and that life is uncontrollable."
In this world, a living being lives by eating another living being. Because of this, many beings live in carnivorous states: the tiger, the wolf, the cat ... being meat eaters they have the right, given by Mother Nature herself, to kill other living beings and eat them.
We, as human beings, have the perfect opportunity to live as vegetarians and control this desire inside of us that drives us to kill others for food. Such consciousness can only develop by mercy. We can not control specific events in our lives but we can control our source of nutrition.
In other words we must make the decision to live without killing other animals, or mistreating chickens through the production of eggs.
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Second Step
"To believe that a higher power can restore health."
The meat eater has done much to damage their own health. Our biological system is designed to feed on legumes, vegetables, and nuts. Our body is not endowed with the powers to eat meat, which is why our health is affected by having eaten meat. But if we take refuge in the protection of the Supreme Lord and we become vegetarians, we can also improve our health, and our addiction to a carnivorous diet can be overcome.
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Third Step
"Deciding to put our will and lives under the care of God."
Free will allows us to take refuge in the strength and will of God. If the will of God becomes our will and if God's desire becomes our desire, we will have a wonderful fight, spiritual protection and we may experience happiness.
Do not kill: do not make animals suffer unnecessarily; it is the will of God as is confirmed by all the mystical traditions of the planet earth. In particular Lord Buddha preached Ahimsa (non-violence) culture and many religious traditions offers vegetarian food to God trough thanksgiving prayers to counteract the painful impact of having killed the plants.
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Fourth Step
"Revise our life style and making a fearless moral inventory of ourselves ."
We must evaluate the terrible effect on human society brought about by having slaughterhouses and mistreating animals in the most diverse ways. We must discover that the natural moral of our being is to be loving and caring for animals, but to also defend our own welfare. Battering and killing animals without reason or just to make money are big sins and have very terrible consequences for the entire human society.
In the law of action and reaction, the suffering of animals comes back like a boomerang to hit intellectual authors, butchers, as well as consumers. Everyone should discover what the real moral is so that we can accept the principles of vegetarianism as something sensible, which is approved by the sacred traditions as well as our own heart.
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Fifth Step
"Admit, before God, the errors committed by ourselves and the rest of mankind.”
It is essential to accept that we have committed many errors, and, before God, the world must confess to having committed major faults against animals. If one does not recognize their own mistakes, one can not change. We must become aware of our errors to have the willpower to overcome them. Recognizing that God condemns all forms of violence, other than for the absolute necessity of self-defense, we or the defenseless, can establish a relationship of a peaceful conscience.
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Sixth Step
"Be prepared for God to remove all defects of character."
We are dependent on God's mercy to recognize our mistakes and to change the defects of our character. Having been weak addicted, and meat eater, we have a negative trend within us that is a stain on our spiritual progress ... but God willing, these shortcomings can be removed. We can ask for His support. After all, He is the supreme supporter.
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Seventh Step
"Humbly request that God remove our shortcomings."
It is not enough to recognize that we should not eat meat and do not have to make animals suffer. In addition, we must ask God, with all humility, to help us, and we must not be complicit in the slightest by the suffering of animals. Since this is a defect that makes us human beings, this can make human beings a public danger for everyone else. Represented by such harmful sayings as: "All things that run, swim or fly, go into my casserole" ... we can see that people in their hunter spirit enjoy the suffering of others and use animals simply for their various whims ,such as circuses, laboratories, or the countless games men play at the cost of animals' lives. Only by repenting and humbly begging to God to remove this demoniac mentality of abusing the pain of others, can we get out of this gigantic defect.
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Eighth Step
"Make a list of injuries and ask forgiveness"
A meat eater has a list of beings they have injured so long that they can not even remember it, and even worst, that meat eater can no longer ask for their victims' forgiveness, because their victims are dead.
Therefore, we should ask for forgiveness to their species, apologize to those souls that are already disembodied because of our own faults, and we should save this list to remind us of the so many beings whose deaths, destruction of their families, withdrawal from their natural environments, incarceration in industrialized meat farms, and whose many other tortures have been caused by our addiction to meat. We should ask for their forgiveness in meditation and remember them in the form of photos to remind ourselves that these beings live in these beautiful bodies that God has given them, and that they too have the right to live, have family, and be citizens of the land.
Just as God gave us this right, it is considered a crime to remove such freedom from another.
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Ninth Step
"Asking forgiveness from people we've hurt through our addictions."
As a meat eater, we have made many people participate in our mistakes. We must apologize to our family if we grew up eating meat. We must apologize to all those who have been bereaved by the aggression that has emerged within us because of the adrenaline and the various consequences of the wrong food.
We must be very humble and repentant and have this mentality of recognizing how many people have suffered from our faults so that we may not commit the same mistakes. In this way, we will have a strong determination to be vegetarian-convinced beings.
We can be lacto-vegetarians and eat dairy products as long as we belong to lacto-vegetarian mystic traditions who have always tried to protect cows and member as of the family.
Cows are also being battered in the stables of dairies today. From this standpoint vegetarianism tries to distance itself entirely of milk production and possession of livestock. But we know that cows are not killed if it were not for meat eaters who want to eat them. In the ancient Vedic culture, for example, consumption of dairy products is part of the religious functions.
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Tenth Step
"Continue to take personal inventory and always be ready to admit your mistakes."
We have to be very careful that no products coming from the slaughterhouses are within the eatables you by in the supermarket. There is a long list of products ones should watch for.
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Eleventh Step
“Try through prayers and meditations to improve our conscious contact with God as we understand Him, praying only for knowledge or his will for us and the power to carry that out.”
By the grace of God we can improve our relationship with animals and all living beings, living a life of compassion and not aggression. Our lives, and even our whole world, can improve if we understand the will of God and act accordingly.
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Twelfth Step
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we must try to carry this message to other meat eaters, and practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Killing animals is such a common practice in this world that many people cannot understand that it is a cause of misery. By speaking with them and showing them the beauty and the impact of a vegetarian life style, many of them will surely change and this will counteract the negative relationship we had with animals.
Let us expand the Original Kingdom through the Spoon Revolution. Let OKI reach the heart of the meat eaters so that they may change. The Spoon Revolution is not only against killing animals, it promotes a very loving and caring organic lifestyle which respects mother Earth and the life of all earthlings. Regardless of the political system operating in your country, contact the meat eaters and make them aware of the tremendous benefits the Original Kingdom has to offer. At the moment of death when your soul passes on you will be grateful for those changes you made trough the twelve step program of the anonymous meat eaters.
We are encouraging all members of the anonymous meat eaters to organize meetings and to become Ministers of the Original Kingdom so that trough holding small meetings or huge festivals of the anonymous meat eaters, the joyful spirit will spread. The more vegetarian food we can distribute in the name of those who mercifully generate this food, the more people will be enthusiastic about the advantage of meeting in a “fish, eggs meat free zone”. We want our Original Kingdom to spread throughout the whole world, in every town and village.
Take part of in the Spoon Revolution! It will be your merit and your medicine!
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