Here is an article I have posted previously about meat eating and - TopicsExpress



          

Here is an article I have posted previously about meat eating and Buddhism. It was written by my late teacher Karma Tashi Thundup Before reading this please do not jump to the conclusion that either he or myself advocated meat eating per se. Rather what this article is about is that it is our attachment to beliefs and ideas and our aversion to death, that keep us trapped in samsara/delusion. To refrain from meat eating, is a noble and compassionate action towards enlightenment, yet to be averse to meat eating, is to become a prisoner to ideas and to the self. Many spiritual people declare themselves as vegetarians, or worse vegans, blind to the underlying neurosis which these appellations obscure. Aversion, like its less harmful sister Desire/Attachment, is a fundamental lynchpin of ignorance. i am non attached to the taking of life, but that is not the same as being averse to killing. These kindly people can not tolerate the idea of death as such, and their beliefs and labels are a sanitised reflex to life and self. I once met a spiritually proud vegetarian would be yogin who was completely unable to walk past a butchers shop. The other wobbly prop to this mummery is that it is better for their health. They are preoccupied with their health and this constant clinging to the idea of perfect health is a perfect recipe for future sickness. a deluded mind has its inevitable results in a disturbed body. The nature of aversion is blindness and this is mental darkness. attachment and aversion and mental darkness constitute the loss of intrinsic awareness, which then is an emotional force. The pinnacle of this craziness is probably the Fruitarian, who will only eat fruit and nuts, on the grounds that it is somehow spiritual. and a recipe for perfect health. How can this be so when the Dalai Lamas physicians forbid him to eat fruit, and as we all know, eating nuts is fatal to some. If you know someone who worries about what he is going to eat tomorrow, shun him. Sufi advice. At another level, so to speak, to call oneself a vegetarian, or Meatarian, is to rivet an iron collar around the mind cheating oneself of the prospect of genuine humanity and spontaneity. when Christ was asked by religious food faddists which foods were pure and which impure, he replied that it mattered little what someone took into him or herself, what was important to him was what came forth so to speak. According to the scriptures, the Buddha was not averse to eating pig meat, when offered to him. It is worth noting that some of the more faint hearted of his flock transcribe pig meat, tortuously into truffles. Attachment to life and aversion to death help to keep the wheel of ignorance turning. Nevertheless, it is a great privilege to be born a human being, for therein lies the possibility for enlightenment. If you were stranded in the midst of a typhus epidemic, I would have no compunction in terminating every body louse in the vicinity. And, were you starving to death somewhere with a fat trout within tickling distance, I can assure you that the trout would not last long.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 18:36:08 +0000

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