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(Quote) We cannot avoid doing harm, the question is what efforts we make to minimise the harm we do. This applies to all aspects of our behaviour of course. (Quote) Doesn't kindness extends to animal… (View Post)
(Quote) A more relevant question is whether as a Buddhist we choose to buy meat, knowing that this adds to the demand and the harm caused, and also expecting somebody to kill and butcher on our behal… (View Post)
(Quote) No, it really isn't, it is just listing things which lack inherent existence. You are trying to impose a Thai Forest view onto a Mahayana text, and that is not going to work. I would suggest … (View Post)
(Quote) Emptiness is not non-arising. This passage from the Heart Sutra is just giving examples of phenomena that are empty, it is saying that everything listed doesn't have inherent existence, it do… (View Post)