By your behavior 'you' teach younger ones, and by teaching younger ones a selfish behavior, while telling them that it is NOT selfish behavior, harms them, and this is because they are being taught to have the same Wrong BELIEFS.
The killing living being for food is the greatest sin
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How am I teaching younger ones? And why is my behaviour selfish?
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By what you do.Maia wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 9:58 amHow am I teaching younger ones?
Younger ones follow and copy what older ones do.
Because you are doing 'it' only for 'you'.
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I'm not harming others by avoiding meat, therefore it's not selfish.
Avoiding meat is healthy. In the unlikely event that any kids choose to do so by my example, I'm actually helping them.
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I wouldn't dream of killing anybody for food. I just pay for it at the checkout, like everyone else.dattaswami wrote: ↑Tue Oct 18, 2022 4:04 am You must not kill any living being for the sake of your food
I've never killed a goat in my life, so, according to your scheme, I must owe the widows an absolute fortune by now.Instead of killing a goat he or she can donate that money to very poor widows,
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How prepared are you?
There is quite a LOT to SHOW and EXPRESS here.
You not eating meat for your OWN personal health and well being only teaches younger ones to not eat meat for their OWN personal health and well being only as well.
Teaching "others" to do things for their OWN personal selves is teaching them to be selfish also, which harms them, as they become selfish as well.
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I'm not teaching them to do anything.Age wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:41 amHow prepared are you?
There is quite a LOT to SHOW and EXPRESS here.
You not eating meat for your OWN personal health and well being only teaches younger ones to not eat meat for their OWN personal health and well being only as well.
Teaching "others" to do things for their OWN personal selves is teaching them to be selfish also, which harms them, as they become selfish as well.
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Is this what you BELIEVE is true.Maia wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:46 amI'm not teaching them to do anything.Age wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:41 amHow prepared are you?
There is quite a LOT to SHOW and EXPRESS here.
You not eating meat for your OWN personal health and well being only teaches younger ones to not eat meat for their OWN personal health and well being only as well.
Teaching "others" to do things for their OWN personal selves is teaching them to be selfish also, which harms them, as they become selfish as well.
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Yes.Age wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:56 amIs this what you BELIEVE is true.Maia wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:46 amI'm not teaching them to do anything.Age wrote: ↑Wed Oct 19, 2022 11:41 am
How prepared are you?
There is quite a LOT to SHOW and EXPRESS here.
You not eating meat for your OWN personal health and well being only teaches younger ones to not eat meat for their OWN personal health and well being only as well.
Teaching "others" to do things for their OWN personal selves is teaching them to be selfish also, which harms them, as they become selfish as well.
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Not much future in that.
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I'd say that one must reconcile what is known to be true, with conditions. With the Situation. One must integrate the essence that is truth, with conditions, with the situation.
- If the essence is chowing down, then the essence is subject to limitations.
- What kind of essence is subject to limitations? The answer is: none.
- The essence transcends limitations.
For example, Padmasambhava adapted the essence of Buddhism from India for the Tibetan region, by incorporating the situation in Tibet, (which included geography, local customs and religions), into the essence of Buddhism.