-Okay Rod, instead of tossing the shoe back at you, I will put on your shoes in order to see a little clearer. I read another good article regarding the first precept from the 'Tricycle' magazine. Partial article below...
The First Precept: To Kill or Not to Kill This article first appeared in Tricycle Magazine, Winter 2003. When asked whether euthanasia was ever appropriate, one Tibetan teacher laughed gently and said, "You aren't serious, are you? That would be killing." Another Tibetan teacher, when asked the same question, replied, "This is very tricky. Suppose you are sitting in your living room and you hear a screech of brakes. You go outside and you see that your dog has been hit by a car. His body is broken and he is obviously in great pain and is going to die. You go into your house, get a gun, and shoot him. What's wrong with that? But if you hesitate for a moment and think about how you don't want to take care of your injured pet, everything changes." Ducks are loveable as are all animals. The person whom I spoke to recently that brought me to finding out that more hunting had taken place was a friend/hunter himself. Take care, j ////////////////////// -- In [email protected], "Rod Scholl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jacqueline -- that's a long one. Real long, so I hope you'll forgive me for skipping it. > > As far as what is most immediate for you -- I wouldn't even make a guess. For the comments I made, if the shoe fits wear it -- if not just throw it back at me... > > We all choose to maintain a certain level of our won peace in order to spread peace, or we're likely too geared up and unsettled to practice what we preach. That said, if someone can't get up and save a drowning baby, because "they're not sure their meditation has made them peaceful enough to do it well enough" -- then that person's a jerk. > > So somewhere in between locking our selves in a cave until death, and killing the warden for supporting the 'immoral death penalty' is where we all have to choose live. To me, saving ducks when people are hurting down the street, sounds kinda silly -- but maybe I just never knew any really loveable ducks before. And for me, history has proven, as it has on this forum, that in my current state, I'm not much good to most folks in terms of spreading peace... > > Rod Scholl > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater? Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WwRTUD/SOnJAA/i1hLAA/S27xlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Noble Eightfold Path: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration, Right Livelihood Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZenForum/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
