[Buddha-l] What's the point

[Richard Basham]

On Tue, 2011-07-12 at 10:52 -0600, Randall Jones wrote: 
> 
> Maybe it's just a senior moment, but I'm having trouble remembering 
> what's the point of the prohibition against killing.
> 
> Thoughts? 


Being vacuous and without mass <g>, killing is a form of
genocide/suicide (past lives) as well as permission to be killed
(karma). On a secular perspective, the admonishment is to be aware and
cognizant of more than one's own consequence and intent. That is what I
recall, not that it is what was heard. 

Others may share some memorized sutra, tale, or commentary that explains
lucidly the proper view. 


Richard Basham