[Buddha-l] Re: on eating meat

[Michael Paris]

Replies below.

--- d f tweney <dylan at tweney.com> wrote:

[snip]

>The point is not to  collect good karma and avoid bad karma. The point

> of Buddhism is to get to an awareness that goes beyond karma 
> altogether, no?

Is that possible? 

Or is it simply a deep awareness, a sensitivity, perhaps, of "karma?"
To really give a damn, so to speak.

[snip]

> You can't avoid cause-and-effect (or karma). The question
> is, are you aware of what you're doing? Then you can make decisions 
> about "where to draw the line."
> 
> --dylan.

Yes, exactly my point.

Perhaps I'm on a one-person mission to put Buddhism into some sort of
basic, common language that I can understand and explain to another in
like terms. Why else would I be pursing this "ad irritatem?" <G>

I do appreciate everyone's contribution to this perhaps obvious topic.
Seems that what's obvious to many isn't the least clear to me. The
Columbo Effect, maybe?


Michael



		
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