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DVA Speaker Series Episode 4 Saturday, December 12th, at 9:00am PST.

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DVA Interview with Bob Isaacson and Jetsunma Tenzi DVA Interview with Bob Isaacson and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. On Saturday, June 16, DVA President Bob Isaacson traveled up the California coast to meet in person renowned Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. In this video clip of their meeting, Jetsunma shares with Bob: 1) why not eating animals is at the core of Dharma practice 2) that teachers are such important examples for their students that they must be particularly careful to eat a compassionate diet 3) that even though flesh eaters may not actually kill the animals they eat, they are quite involved in the process that leads to great suffering and the death of each animals they consume. Also, from 2:05 to 3:13 of this clip, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo gives a heartfelt endorsement of DVA and our mission. ☸️ 🙏🏻 🕉 . . . . . @jtenzinpalmo . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #FriendsNotFood #BeCompasionate #1stPrecept #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #NotJustHumans #Bodhisattva #Kindness #Compassion #Vegan #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #PlantBased #Bodhisattvas #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #BeKind #VeganHealing #Meditate #Meditation #Metta #LovingKindness
Thank you for being a voice for animals. . . . . Thank you for being a voice for animals. . . . . Posted @withregram • @mercyforanimals Speak for animals at every meal by choosing plant-based foods—and encouraging others to do the same. 💕 . . . ☸️ 🙏🏿. 🙏. 🕉 . . . . . . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #BeCompassionate #FriendsNotFood #DoNoHarm #Bodhisattva #Bodhisattvas #mercyforanimals #loveanimals #bethechange #friendsnotfood #kindness #compassion #animallovers #animalplanet #makeadifference #bekind #animalrights #vegansofinstagram #plantbased #vegansofig #plantbaseddiet #cuteanimals #sanctuary #rescue #kindnessmatters #easter2021 #easterday #mercy
Posted @withregram • @govegandva "Best thing hap Posted @withregram • @govegandva "Best thing happened to our team is to been able to be a strong voice for the voiceless innocent animals " -team DVA ☸️ 🙏🏿. 🙏. 🕉 . . . . . . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #VoicesForTheVoiceless #Kindness #Compassion #BeKind #BeCompassionate #FriendsNotFood #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #Bodhisattva #Bodhisattvas #Vegan #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #PlantBased
Posted @withregram • @govegandva As well as hum Posted @withregram • @govegandva As well as humans ,animals also like to feel love and kindness. Animals are so helpless specially as they are not capable of expressing about their sicknesses or going to a doctor by themselves. So Dharma Voices For Animals designed this special veterinary care project which initially takes place in temples Island wide to treat free of charge to the innocent helpless animals who live in temples. We are so happy as we get so many possitive feedback about this program. ☸️ 🙏🏿. 🙏. 🕉 . . . . . . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #VoicesForTheVoiceless #DharmaVoicesForTheVoiceless #BeKind #BeCompassionate #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #FriendsNotFood #BeCompasionate #1stPrecept #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #Bodhisattva #Vegan #GoVegan #Kindness #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #PlantBased #Bodhisattvas #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #BeKind #Compassion
DVA Awards Lifetime Service Award to Jetsunma Tenz DVA Awards Lifetime Service Award to Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo. On Saturday, June 16, 2018, DVA President and Co-Founder Bob Isaacson traveled up the California coast to meet in person renowned Buddhist nun Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo to present to her The Dharma Voices for Animals Lifetime Service Award. ☸️ 🙏🏻 🕉 . . . . . @jtenzinpalmo . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #FriendsNotFood #BeCompasionate #1stPrecept #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #NotJustHumans #Bodhisattva #Kindness #Compassion #Vegan #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #PlantBased #Bodhisattvas #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #BeKind #VeganHealing #Meditate #Meditation #Metta #LovingKindness
Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo: I Don't Eat My Friends. A 5 Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo: I Don't Eat My Friends. A 5 part interview with Jetsumna Tenzin Palmo on Budhism and a Vegetarian Diet. Featured in the DVA Documenatary Animals and the Buddha. Originally published in 2006 on shabkar.org. Part 1: On Buddhism & vegetarianism and the attitude of meat eating Tibetan Lamas regarding their non-vegetarian diet. Part 2: On Buddhism & vegetarianism and the excuse of non-veg Buddhists that Buddha did not forbid his begging monks to eat meat. Part 3: On the increased awareness amongst Tibetan Buddhists that eating meat is not supportive to walking the Buddhist path. Part 4: On the (absence of a) relationship between keeping a veg diet and enlightenment. . Part 5: On why Buddhists should keep a veg diet in modern times in spite of the fact that eating meat, fish, egg (and diary products) might not prevent one from enlightenment as such. ☸️ 🙏🏻 🕉 . . . . . @jtenzinpalmo . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #FriendsNotFood #BeCompasionate #1stPrecept #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #NotJustHumans #Bodhisattva #Kindness #Compassion #Vegan #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #PlantBased #Bodhisattvas #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #BeKind #VeganHealing #Meditate #Meditation #Metta #LovingKindness
I think it’s very important for people to recogn I think it’s very important for people to recognize that just as we ourselves wish for a sense of well-being and happiness and don’t want to be made miserable, so does everybody we meet. We’re actually very connected, including animals, in our wish for inner well-being and not to be hurt. What if people just thought about that, you know, just sitting in a theatre or on a subway? What if we were conscious that all the people around us, whatever they might look like, in their heart of hearts, really want to feel okay? What if your first thought for everybody you meet is not judgment but “May you be well and happy”? If we could manage that much, it would change the world, wouldn't it? ~Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo ☸️ 🙏🏻 🕉 . . . . . @jtenzinpalmo . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #Dharma #FriendsNotFood #BeCompasionate #1stPrecept #FirstPrecept #DoNotKill #DoNoHarm #NotJustHumans #Bodhisattva #Kindness #Compassion #Vegan #GoVegan #VeganForTheAnimals #VeganForThePlanet #PlantBased #Bodhisattvas #VeganHealth #Buddha #Buddhist #BeKind #VeganHealing #Meditate #Meditation #Metta #LovingKindness
Winner English Medium 1st Virtual Oratory Competit Winner English Medium 1st Virtual Oratory Competition. Dharma Voices for Animals sponsored and organized a virtual oratory speaker event throughout the island nation of Sri Lanka. 250 students from over 100 schools participated in the first round with the theme "Owners of the Earth" with Sinhala and English language divisions. 50 students made it through to the final round with the theme “Why does Sri Lanka need an Animal Welfare Act?”. 20 students were selected as winners, 10 for each language. Two students, one from each language, were selected as first-place winners. Prize money was given for 1st, 2nd place, and 3rd place with the other 14 winners given gift certificates and cash. Udani Nethmini Senanayake - Winner of "Mihithalaye Himikaruwo" Oratory Competition -English Medium Sponsored by DVA Sri Lanka. ☸ 🙏 🕉 . . . . . @govegandva . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #DVASriLanka #FriendsNotFood #Kindness #Compassion #Dharma #GoVegan #Vegan #PlantBased #FutureIsInTheirHands #FollowTheHeart
Runner Up English Medium 1st Virtual Oratory Compe Runner Up English Medium 1st Virtual Oratory Competition. Dharma Voices for Animals sponsored and organized a virtual oratory speaker event throughout the island nation of Sri Lanka. 250 students from over 100 schools participated in the first round with the theme "Owners of the Earth" with Sinhala and English language divisions. 50 students made it through to the final round with the theme “Why does Sri Lanka need an Animal Welfare Act?”. 20 students were selected as winners, 10 for each language. Two students, one from each language, were selected as first-place winners. Prize money was given for 1st, 2nd place, and 3rd place with the other 14 winners given gift certificates and cash. Thinara Pathirana - First Runner up of Mihithalaye Himikaruwo Oratory Competition - English Medium Sponsored by DVA Sri Lanka. ☸ 🙏 🕉 . . . . . @govegandva . . . . . #DharmaVoicesForAnimals #DharmaVoices4Animals #DVASriLanka #FriendsNotFood #Kindness #Compassion #Dharma #GoVegan #Vegan #PlantBased #FutureIsInTheirHands #FollowTheHeart
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