Why is nonvegetarian food not allowed in the ashram?
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"We choose vegetarianism not for religious reasons, but to cultivate a refined sensitivity to beauty and humanity, for in every animal, we see our familial continuum."
According to Osho, nonvegetarian food is banned in the ashram not for religious purity or enlightenment, but for aesthetics—a refined sensitivity to beauty, poetry, and humanity. Killing an animal for taste is unaesthetic when nourishing vegetarian food exists; animals are our familial continuum. Diet doesn't block enlightenment, yet meat coarsens the heart’s aesthetic sense, so the commune chooses beauty over brutality.
We avoid meat because it dulls our sense of beauty and care, even if it doesn’t stop enlightenment.
Why this matters practically
- Cultivates sensitivity, compassion, and poetic feeling in daily choices.
- Shifts focus from guilt to beauty when alternatives exist.
- Aligns eating with a humane kinship with animals.
- Shifts focus from guilt to beauty when alternatives exist.
- Aligns eating with a humane kinship with animals.
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