Chris: One thing is to protect our self body and health and therefore kill bacteria because is damaging ones health and a different thing is not to be aware of what we ingest. Reducing or lessen suffering in a different forms of life is the real issue here. Mayka
--- On Tue, 26/7/11, Anthony Wu <[email protected]> wrote: From: Anthony Wu <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Need help with the fear of death To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 26 July, 2011, 22:43 How about bacteria? I don't remember whether they belong to the animal or plant kingdom. But they 'feel' the pain when confronted with medicine and react quickly by transformation into a drug resistant species. So don't kill bacteria. Anthony --- On Tue, 26/7/11, Chris Austin-Lane <[email protected]> wrote: From: Chris Austin-Lane <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Need help with the fear of death To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, 26 July, 2011, 9:11 AM Everwalked around a forest near an area where land was cleared for a farm? I think one could argue that on some appropriate time scale there is suffering in a distressed forest. I think it is time to give up notions of purity or impurity. Please note that I am generally vegetarian but when offered only meat that will be thrown away if I do not eat it, I will eat it. On Jul 25, 2011 3:40 PM, "Edgar Owen" <[email protected]> wrote: There is an obvious difference between plants and animals. Animals suffer and experience pain. Plants do have automatic protective and response mechanisms but no one would argue that they feel pain. That argument is used by evil doers to justify killing and eating animals. Edgar On Jul 25, 2011, at 5:53 PM, Anthony Wu wrote: > > > Edgar, > > Your remarks echoe Bill's s... Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it t...
