When you walk, walk with awareness.
When you stand, be mindful.
When you sit, remain aware.
When you sleep, be peaceful.
When you eat and speak, be watchful.
Commit no harm to any living being,That will not invite painful karmic consequences.

O Victorious ones Who have mastered the Self, What a wonderful teaching you have given us! You have taught us how to nourish the body with the food that issues straight from the benevolent earth, which is not tainted with the pain
of bloodshed. You have taught us that we eat to sustain the body in health so as to use it for attaining liberation and to serve the fellow beings.

The Arhants of the past, present and future, all say thus, speak thus, explain thus, ‘All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away’.It is the essential trait of a wise man that he does not kill any living being. Certainly, one has to understand just two principles namely non-violence and equality of all living beings.