To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/12/09 18:51
Subject: [K-list] Re: [HarshaSatsangh] Response to Harsha and Ahimsa.
From: David Bozzi
On 1999/12/09 18:51, David Bozzi posted thus to the K-list:
Tony O'Clery wrote:
> What exactly is your position on meat-eating and
> Ahimsa? If meat eating is fine then what is Ahimsa?
Compassion and love for another is truly fine.
Who would disagree?
> A child may bully as a child ---fine. The child
> doesn't have a developed conscience. However does that
> excuse the same behaviour as an adult?
If one is filled with judgment as a child,
does that excuse the same behavior as an adult?
> Does understandable or excusable make it right/ahimsa?
What is right?
What is wrong?
> I know all is ullusion etc.
Do you?
> What then is Ahimsa? if killing cruelly is excusable?
> If all is one, can we kill humans, or eat them? I
> suppose we could then?
What does your intuition say?
Do you know the difference between intuition and your concepts?
Are they in harmony or conflict?
Does intuition teach you that it is ok to kill humans?
Does it tell you that it is ok to judge?
> The natives near Australia call
> it 'Long-pig', a bit like pork they tell me. They have
> no conscience about this on the'fly river', in
> Papua-New Guinea, it is their culture, is that alright
> then? Are they right or like the child, in ignorance?
We are all ignorant.
Do you claim to be the one to know?
> Are we talking about Ahimsa or what stage of
> developement people are in?
I choose not to look down upon my brothers that
have not transcended judgment.
Would you?
> So don't offend them
> for,'Father forgive them for they know not what they
> do.'-Jesus.
Jesus was judged.
He forgave those who judged.
> I understand the broader aspects of Ahimsa in thought
> word and deed etc but this is a discussion group.
It does not matter what this is.
Does your 'understanding' bring you judgment
or does it bring you joy?
> I really would like to know your answer to this!
No one else holds the answer.
Anyone who believes so, is deluded.
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