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Victor wrote:

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the first precept - srog gÇod songwa.

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Tantrikas realise that to refrain from killing the

efflorescence of their enlightened nature is simultaneously possible and

impossible

 

Tantrikas understand that it is impossible to disconnect from killing.

They understand that it is so,simply because they have human bodies.

They recognise that to have a body, and to exist, is to cause death.

>From this knowledge they establish compassionate connections with

everyone and everything everywhere.

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They understand that to live is to cause death, and that this fact cannot

be avoided.

 

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Hi Victor,

 

It was interesting to find this message posted here this morning .

Just read this in I Am That yesterday. Thought you might enjoy it as well.

 

Love,

jessica

 

 

Q.

I see you sitting on an antelope skin. How does this tally with

non-violence?

 

M.

All my working life I was a cigarette-maker, helping people to spoil their

health. And in front of my door a municipality has put up a public lavatory,

spoiling my health. In this violent world how can one keep away from

violence of some kind or other?

 

Q.

Surely all avoidable violence should be avoided. And yet in India every holy

man has his tiger, lion, leopard or antelope skin to sit on.

 

M.

Maybe because no plastics were available in ancient times and a skin was

best to keep the damp away. Rheumatism has no charm, even for a saint! Thus

the tradition arose that for lengthy meditations a skin is needed. Just like

the drum-hide in a temple, so is the antelope skin of a Yogi. We hardly

notice it.

 

Q.

But the animal had to be killed.

 

M.

I have never heard of a Yogi killing a tiger for his hide. The killers are

not Yogis and the Yogis are not killers.

 

Q. Should you not express your disapproval by refusing to sit on a skin?

 

M.

What an idea! I disapprove of the entire universe, why only a skin?

 

Q.

What is wrong with the universe?

 

M.

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from

it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care of itself.

You do not tidy up a dark room. You open the windows first. Letting in the

light makes everything easy. So let us wait with improving others until we

have seen ourselves as we are - and have changed. There is no need to turn

round and round in endless questioning; find yourself and everything will

fall into it's proper place.

 

 

 

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