Does eating meat preclude graduation to 4th D STO?

[Shemaya]

The orientation develops due to analysis of desire. These desires become more and more distorted towards conscious application of love/light as the entity furnishes itself with distilled experience.

The reason it is unwise to overcome is that overcoming is an unbalanced action creating difficulties in balancing in the time/space continuum. 

It is, shall we say, a shortcut to simply ignore or overcome any desire. It must instead be understood and accepted. This takes patience and experience which can be analyzed with care, with compassion for self and for other-self.

 (because participating in eating customs turns out to be a service to others...) I'm grateful to people who just reduce their meat consumption, or choose more ethical products to consume. People are slowly waking up to the horrors of our commercial farming system which is really the villain here, not the ignorant-by-choice-and-slightly-addicted consumer.

Thanks, Jade.  Your post is very balanced and makes sense to me.  I would agree that participating in social customs can be and very often is a service to others.  So , for example, if it involves a family celebration where meat is being consumed, the service is most definitely balanced by the joy and community that brings people together.

I agree with you that eventually 4d will be a place where meat is no longer needed or consumed. I think at this point for some on earth, it is still needed, but eventually our entire planet will be able to live and thrive without it.

I eat very little meat, and that is because I am with my family most of the time, who are big meat eaters.  I have definitely processed and worked on my feelings around the issue, and I am not afraid to tell others how I feel and what is horrible about the industry.  I think that sometimes the information may be helpful coming from me because I am not a " purist" about my diet.

I completely agree with you about the commercial farming system being the villain! I think that it can be changed more easily than converting all  people to vegetarianism because it has been a survival issue for humanity, and we are evolving.