On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:53:51 +0100, Guido wrote:

Gunner wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 20:01:59 +0100, Guido wrote:


Gunner wrote:


Im Buddhist. So once again the Mind numbed Leftist Drone gets it all
wrong. You ever going to get any of your grand claims right????

"Your not here for the hunting, are you?"

Tell us again how many karma points you get for shooting Bambi?


Bambi was a cartoon figure painted on celluloid cells. Didn't you get
the memo?

You seem to have some really weird ideas about Buddhism.


Precept 1:
Panatipata veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami

The Buddha made distinction between killing an animal and consumption
of meat, stressing that it is immoral conduct that makes one impure,
not the food one eats. In one of the Pali sutras belonging to the
Theravada lineage of Buddhism, the Buddha says that vegetarianism is
preferable, but as monks in ancient India were expected to receive all
their food by begging they had little or no control over their diet.
Furthermore, the Buddha did not wish to lay an extra burden on his lay
followers by demanding that their food should be vegetarian. During
the Buddha's time, there was no general rule requiring monks to
refrain from eating meat. In fact, at one point the Buddha
specifically refused to institute vegetarianism and the Pali Canon
records the Buddha himself eating meat on several occasions. There
were, however, rules prohibiting certain types of meat, such as human,
leopard and elephant meat. Monks are also prohibited from consuming an
animal if they have witnessed its death or know it was killed
specifically for them. This rule was not applied to the commercial
purchase of meat in the case of a general who sent a servant to
purchase meat specifically to feed the Buddha. Therefore, eating
commercially purchased meat is not prohibited.

n the modern world, attitudes toward vegetarianism vary by location.
In the Theravada countries of Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka, monks are
bound by the vinaya to accept almost any food that is offered to them,
often including meat, while in China and Vietnam monks are expected to
eat no meat. In Japan and Korea, some monks practice vegetarianism,
and most will do so at least when training at a monastery, but
otherwise they typically do eat meat. In Tibet, where vegetable
nutrition is historically very scarce, and the adopted vinaya was the
Nikaya Sarva-stiva-da, vegetarianism is very rare, although the Dalai
Lama and other esteemed lamas invite their audiences to adopt
vegetarianism when they can. In the West, of course, a wide variety of
practices are followed. Lay Buddhists generally follow dietary rules
less rigorously than monks.
"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner