Zenbob/Ahimsa

[Guest guest]

Zenbob - Thanks for sharing your useful, practical wisdom - with feet

firmly on the ground. Sometimes I think our greatest challenge

as human beings is to truly judge not the being of others, not to

take our personal standards as universals, and to extend the

compassionate awareness that "there go I" (as opposed to, "there,

but for the grace of God, go I"). Sometimes, I am astonished

at the extent of our personalized judgments of others

(and ourselves, and nature itself), and this kind of violence

seems to be affected very little by dietary choices,

as far as I can see.

Love, Dan

 

<Zenbob:

<This reminds me of the story of the pacifist friend of mine with whom I

<shared many an interesting discussion with about Ahimsa and Buddhist

<doctrines.