[Buddha-l] Victimized vegans?

[[DPD Web] Shen Shi'an]

Another way of "reading" the Sutta Nipata quote below, which IMHO, might
be its real meaning...  -

"What you eat cannot purify your mind - 
but is there greed behind your choice of eating? [including meat]
If yes, the mind that eats is not pure - 
be your choice vegetarian or not."

- Stonepeace 
>From http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/resources/buddhist_quotes.html 


-----Original Message-----
From: Franz Metcalf [mailto:franzmetcalf at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Sunday, 13 May, 2007 2:44 AM
To: Buddhist discussion forum
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Victimized vegans?

Gang,

Richard wrote:

> I think those passages probably come from a time when Buddhist, Jainas

> and Brahmans were obsessed with trying to show themselves more pure 
> than their rivals, where purity was defined in terms of all the things

> one refused to eat.

I think you'll like this one better than the Lanka:

      Anger, arrogance, inflexibility, hostility, deception, envy, 
pride, conceit, bad company,
      these are impure foods, not meat.
      Sutta Nipata 245

Franz

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