[Buddha-l] Re:on eating meat

[Jim Peavler]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 1:40 AM, Kate wrote:

>
>> Only last week, our resident Geshe told of a place in India near to a
>> lake where the locals caught fish and sold them live. Tibetans in the
>> area bought these fish to release into the lake again.  The circle of
>> events continues - perhaps not so 'vicious' as the circle of life and
>> death, but a suffering circle for the fish even within one lifetime.
>

If you had bought the little birds and released them they would have 
spent a few weeks starving for want of their native food or dying of 
the different climate. You did the right thing. In the story above, the 
folks are putting the fish back into the lake from which they were 
caught.

Jim Peavler
jmp at peavler.org