Comments on: The Power to Help. http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/07/13/the-power-to-help/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:24:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: dlkeur http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/07/13/the-power-to-help/#comment-29 dlkeur Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:58:04 +0000 http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/07/13/the-power-to-help/#comment-29 All life is to be revered. Harm not intentionally. Veganism? Not necessary. Ask the Dali Llama. A carrot killed is as dead as a cow killed. Instead, remember that that cow and that carrot gave their lives that you could maintain yours. Karma is based upon the idea of guilt, a control mechanism. Instead, the purity of self has to be, not by inducement of some negative punitive result, but voluntary without coercion. All life is to be revered. Harm not intentionally. Veganism? Not necessary. Ask the Dali Llama. A carrot killed is as dead as a cow killed. Instead, remember that that cow and that carrot gave their lives that you could maintain yours.

Karma is based upon the idea of guilt, a control mechanism. Instead, the purity of self has to be, not by inducement of some negative punitive result, but voluntary without coercion.

]]> By: WheldonRumproastIII http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/07/13/the-power-to-help/#comment-26 WheldonRumproastIII Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:26:58 +0000 http://www.dlkeur.com/dlkeur-blog/2007/07/13/the-power-to-help/#comment-26 I once met a woman originally from India and the Jain religious tradition. The Jains are a heterodox sect within Hinduism who have an extremist reverence for all life. They are strictly vegetarian, and even go as far as filtering their water and wearing cloth masks to prevent any inhalation of tiny insects. Of course, this sort of ideal is common in Asia, but I take it that other faiths are less strict about the karma of intention...believing that even if one harms another sentient being, it is only the 'intention' to do so which incurs negative karma. Surely though, I asked, these principles are dependant on size and disposition. Does the reverence for ALL life extend to pathological organisms like lethal bacterias??? If grizzly bears were the size of gerbils would people keep them as pets, instead of shooting them? Or if ants were the size of bears would we still be enchanted by their attendance at the picnic table? I once met a woman originally from India and the Jain religious tradition. The Jains are a heterodox sect within Hinduism who have an extremist reverence for all life. They are strictly vegetarian, and even go as far as filtering their water and wearing cloth masks to prevent any inhalation of tiny insects.

Of course, this sort of ideal is common in Asia, but I take it that other faiths are less strict about the karma of intention…believing that even if one harms another sentient being, it is only the ‘intention’ to do so which incurs negative karma.

Surely though, I asked, these principles are dependant on size and disposition. Does the reverence for ALL life extend to pathological organisms like lethal bacterias???

If grizzly bears were the size of gerbils would people keep them as pets, instead of shooting them?

Or if ants were the size of bears would we still be enchanted by their attendance at the picnic table?

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