From the words of the cook i have learnt how to take care of my life!

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Dear Tony,

 

Our energetic and graceful Sri Adiji is not at fault

in sharing this as it is considered a classic story

told to students about the power of focus,

concentration, experience, and depth of knowledge that

any master craftsman develops. So the story has a

point that many feel they can ponder to perhaps their

benefit, even though in some ways, you may feel

rightly so that it uses disgusting images of an animal

being chopped up. I do understand where you are coming

from.

 

I also (personally) don't like many of these zen

stories which involve cutting up animals or the zen

masters chopping of a cat's head to make their

disciples enlightened. Such stories make animals as

objects who can be tortured and killed for the

"higher" purpose of bringing enlightenment to human

beings. A questionable approach based upon ignorance

of the sacredness of life.

 

Once we accept unnecessary violence as legitimate

towards other forms of life (animals, plants, the

environment), it is a slippery slope. So I can really

appreciate how Tony feels about this.

 

Love to all

Harsha

> A better skill...............ONS..Tony.

>

> As Dr.Albert Schweitzer tells us:

>

> "I cannot but have reverence for all that is called

> life.I cannot

> avoid compassion for everything that is called

> life.That is the

> beginning of morality.Once a man has experienced it

> and continues to

> do so he/she is ethical.He carries morality within

> him/her and can

> never lose it,for it continues to develop within

> him.He who has

> never experienced this has only a set of superficial

> principles.

>

> These theories have no root in him,they do not

> belong to him,and

> they fall off him......Reverence for life comprises

> the whole ethic

> of love in its deepest and highest sense.It is the

> source of

> constant renewal for the individual and for

> mankind.(Respect for

> life is compassion,which is a prerequisite for

> understanding.)

>

> (Scheitzer pp 116-177) (1)

 

 

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