[Nantou] On December 16, Golden Year 3 (2006), a “Golden Age Healthy Vegetarian Festival” was held at the New Era Art Resort & Spa, sponsored by the Nantou County Health Bureau, Puli Employment Service Center and Nantou County Council. Twenty businesses and nonprofit organizations were invited to participate in the event, including The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association. We offered a delicious treat of vegetarian food and snacks, and played Master’s videos. Master’s art creations including Longevity Lamps and paintings, which won great admiration and acclaim from visitors, were also exhibited.

Aware of the natural and healthy trend in people’s diet, the sponsors launched the Meatless Weekend following up on the Meatless Monday campaign initiated by Dr. Robert Lawrence of John Hopkins University. Their aim was to encourage people to eat vegetarian on weekends and holidays, so as to alleviate the burden on the body and contribute to animal protection and world peace. Fellow initiates cordially explained the significance of the Meatless Weekend to the guests and visitors, many of whom signed their names on a banner to support this cause. By the end of the day, the long banner was filled with signatures.

During the seminar, Ms. Li Chiou-liang, a dietitian, demonstrated the preparation of a delicious and nutritious vegetarian breakfast. Dr. Liu Deng-jie from Puli Veterans Hospital, in a lecture on health, shared his insights on how to maintain good health and confirmed the importance of vegetarianism from the perspectives of diet, religious faith and spiritual practice. Video excerpts from the DVD “The Real Heroes,” as well as from our TV program “A Journey through Aesthetic Realms” which covered the Meatless Monday campaign by Dr. Robert Lawrence and the promotion of vegetarianism on school campuses by Dr. Antonia Demas of Cornell University, were shown.

After the seminar, a secondary school teacher said that a lot of the information about health and nutrition in our TV program would be suitable for students, and she hoped to borrow the DVD from us. Ms. Li Chiou-liang also hoped that she could use the TV video about vegetarianism in her future talks on organic vegetarian diet, in order to encourage people to adopt vegetarianism and a simple lifestyle. A visitor was so impressed by Dr. Liu Deng-jie’s talk that he wanted to purchase a CD or DVD of the talk to share with his family.

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To keep pace with the planet’s ongoing spiritual elevation, the local centers of The Supreme Master Ching Hai International Association are holding more and more video seminars and other Truth-sharing events.

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