you guys are out of your dam minds.
when my family could only afford meat once a month, i dreamed of meat. you guys are just bored gluttons.
you guys are out of your dam minds.
when my family could only afford meat once a month, i dreamed of meat. you guys are just bored gluttons.
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What about all the bacteria and fungus and insects in the soil and on the plant life that vegetarians eat?
Do we create bad karma when we take antibiotics and kill off all the flora in the digestive tract? I don't necessarily know for a fact that bacteria and viruses are not sentient.
Would you jerks kindly go back to the main showboat forum where you belong?
Thanks.
For whoso comes amongst many shall one day find that no one man is by so far the mightiest of all.
Matthew, you are a bit too dogmatic and fundamentalist, not to mention long-winded, to respond to every point you are trying to make. But if you don't even have a basic understanding of the definition of Karma in Buddhism, then I don't think our discussion will be productive until you've studied a bit more on that subject.
Since the Chan school is basically stripped down Yogācāra philosophy, I would suggest reading Vasubandhu's Karma-siddhi-prakaraṇa (Discussion for the Demonstration of Karma).
You'll learn from a Buddhist perspective that Karma, although divided into action of body, speech, and mind, is basically of one type. All such action is led by the intent, the 7th mental consciousness (manas-vijñāna/ 意), whether that manifests through external, visible (bodily), audible (speech), or internal (mind) action. It is all action of the intent.
In order for an action to accrue karmic debt, it must be led by the intent. Otherwise, the consciousness is not involved so how can it accrue such debt? For example, unknowingly stepping on a bug. To believe that will have negative karmic effects requires one to have a Hindu/Jain understanding of Karma as any action whatsoever, because the manas-vijñāna (thought consciousness/karma) is not involved.
This is not just my understanding, or my definition, this is the Buddhist teaching on Karma. I suggest you look into it.