[Buddha-l] on eating meat

[Timothy Bovee/DayPoems]

The second post.

On 10/17/05, Mike Austin <mike at lamrim.org.uk> wrote:
>
> In message <000801c5d374$7f1f1e20$9b00a8c0 at whizzo>, Kate
> <marshallarts at bigpond.com> writes
>
> >It is the Chinese monks who are the strict vegetarians. They draw
> >their precepts etc from the Chinese version of the Brahmajala sutra
> >which forbids the eating of any meat.
>
> When I was at the Nun Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit in South Africa a
> few years ago, the food was delicious - all vegetarian. Interestingly,
> though, much of it had been made to look like meat, with corresponding
> taste and texture.
>
> One reason for not eating meat that I read (was it in the Lankavatara
> Sutta?) was that one may think of animals as meat and cause fear when
> looking at them. Eating meat substitutes would not overcome this.
>
> This reason was put forward because monks were eating meat and could
> have been criticised by the laity. Because there was no bad karma in
> eating meat, this was the reason put forward.
>
> --
> Metta
> Mike Austin
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