[Buddha-l] on eating meat

[Hugo]

Hey Richard,

On 10/19/05, Richard P. Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 23:40 +0100, Mike Austin wrote:
>
> > It is this multitude of dependencies that, I feel, are hard to reconcile
> > with one's own actions of body, speech and mind. Is it through these one
> > accumulates good or bad karma?
>
> It is thinking in terms of individuality that creates most of the
> problems we face.
>
> >  Or is it by any interdependency with any evil act in the world.
>
> Yes.
>
> > If it were the latter, we would all be doomed.
>
> 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.



I agree 100% with you !


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Hugo