[Buddha-l] on eating meat

[Mike Austin]

In message <1129769049.4344.13.camel at localhost.localdomain>, Richard P. 
Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> writes

>I'm sorry to be the one to have to point this out, Mike, but in fact we
>have all already been doomed. And we'll stay doomed as long as we think
>in these simplistic terms of things like individualistic karma and
>karma-vipaaka.

Is this any more simplistic than thinking it is all collective karma? It 
seems to me that reflecting on both is the reasonable approach. And that 
is precisely what I was doing.

Tsongkhapa says in Lam Rim Chenmo:

"Rather, happiness and suffering, in general, come from virtuous and
  non-virtuous karma, and the various particular happinesses and
  sufferings arise individually, without even the slightest confusion,
  from various particular instances of these two kinds of karma."

I try to view the overall picture  and dissect it into pieces that I can 
manage - i.e. my own actions of body, speech and mind. These pieces come 
in large chunks, but these chunks do not include the actions of others.

-- 
Metta
Mike Austin