Ahimsa (non-violence)

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Paul ... you are absolutely right ... the ideal would be a non-violent means

to all oppression ... and I hope that day will come.

Like I said in one of my previous messages, I aspire to one day share that

feeling intrinsically. I would hate to tell all of you guys

that I am opposed to that ending animal persecution via affirmative action,

when I don't feel it in my heart.

 

I think the ALF, for example, uses the measures it uses because people won't

listen to our appeal for animal liberation because we are talking about,

well, animals, as opposed to other humans. A lot of animal liberation

supporters, myself included, probably feel that in order to perpetuate the

process of animal liberation, a non-violent means will not make it happen in

our lifetime. And perhaps it has something to do with our ego's and

us wanting to see an end to animal suffering in our lifetime, but we just

can't sit back and watch animal suffering go on.

 

I agree that there is some really bad Karma involved in what I am talking

about, and I apologize to all animal liberation supporters deep from within

my heart. As I know my feelings give animal liberation supporters a bad

name.

 

Yes, we all feel pain, but, Paul, we have to make choices and decisions in

life, and if someone is going to die, it shouldn't be the deer.

 

You are right, Gandhi would have been mortified at this whole situation, and

you know what, he was smart enough and was such

an altruist, he would have been able to go to that family of the hunter's

and probably talk his whole town into becoming vegetarians and

civil disarmament and the whole thing.

 

You are right, it's (ahimsa - non violence) a long, involved process which

requires, as you put it, much more " thinking and less doing. " It's a

question as whether I will ever be able to take part in that process ... I

know it will make me a better person if I do.

 

Peace to you, brother!

 

Vikas