It was interesting to see how people are taking sides
in this hunting debate. Here we have several kinds of
suffering, some of which have been expressed by the
participants:
1. One being suffers because she is hurt by witnessing
others who engage in killing animals
2. Some beings suffer because they are being hunted,
trapped, maimed and killed
3. Some beings suffer because they are poor and need
to supplement their meager sustenance with
bow-and-arrow hunting of the wildlife (not necessarily
a lifestyle of their first choice)
4. Some beings suffer because of the emerging
political correctness movement which may prevent them
from indulging in killing
5. Some beings may suffer because they perceive the
PC-mongering of the ones who are touchy when it comes
to killing
And so on...
As Buddhist practitioners of the Bodhisattva
orientation and scope (belonging to the Zen, or Dhyana
Mahayana school), we should naturally be tending to
work on eliminating all this suffering. This means
that we cannot take sides. We cannot split reality
into lower-grade phenomena (i.e. 'just one person')
and higher-grade phenomena (i.e. 'lots of people are
affected, so one person's pain is irrelevant').
Knowing this, how would you work on eliminating this
particular form of suffering?
Thanks.
Alex
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