By Tunglestra (Originally in English)

This happened between a boy who is now 16 years and a mother. The little boy has been a vegetarian since he was born.

When the boy was 5 years old at the supermarket, his mother asked, “How do you know what is vegetarian and what is not?” The little boy said, “It depends on if they have eyes, noses, and mouth. Do you see the eyes on the vegetable?”

When the boy was age 10, the mother asked, “Why cannot you eat the living meat?” The boy held his mother’s hand tightly and innocently said, “Mom, do you love me?” “Of course I do.” Mother replied. The little boy continued and said. “What if there is someone who wants to bite me? What would you do?” Mom said, “I will not allow them.”

Later on, the mother cannot help but ask, “So then, why cannot you eat the dead meat?” The boy looks lovely with his clean face and said, “Mom, do you still love me?” “Of course I do,” Mom replied. “What if I died, and you bury my body and someone dug it up and ate it; what would you do?” the boy asked. “I am going to fight with them,” the mother replied.

At age 16, the boy now has already grown up strong, tall, well-built and intelligent - remains a committed vegetarian. He wants to be lawyer; after many discussions, the boy said, “The universal law is that if there is life, the laws between one or another among living creatures, including animals, are all the same. Yet, we human beings are selfish; we only obey our own laws and disregard the universal law - the law of the One, the law of the unity.”

The mother asked: “How do you distinguish people and how do you tell if they have an open-mind?” The boy said, “People’s hearts are like doors. Some have swing doors, easily coming and easily going. Some doors have locks and they need the right keys to get in them. Some doors have keys, but the locks will run around all the time. The key has to chase after the locks. Some doors have big mouths on the top. When someone approaches the door, the mouth will attack. Some doors have no locks, no keys, but at the right time both keys and locks appear all together. ”