[Buddha-l] Re: on eating meat

Joy Vriens joy.vriens at nerim.net
Wed Oct 26 00:48:22 MDT 2005


Vicente Gonzalez wrote:

> Across the history, we see that of all
> western philosophers, only Schopenhauer arrive to the same conclusion
> of Buddhism. In Schopenhauer, compassion appears in his metaphysic
> system as the only basis of any moral ("On the Basis of Morality",
> Arthur Schopenhauer, Tr. E.F.J. Payne").
> However, I want to recommend the reading of this book to any searcher;
> I mean not mainly a communist searcher, fascist, liberal, democrat,
> devotes to the many promises lands, enemies or friends of various
> intelligent projects, etc... but to any Buddhist searcher, son of the
> Buddha message, and truly interested in knowing why compassion is the
> only basis of any moral and ethics.

Thanks for the book tip.


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