--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, t3rinity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <big snip> > > > Recruit > > them from kids who grew up on the myths created by people > > like Gandhi or Buddha or Martin Luther King, and who can > > thus think of more than two solutions to the problems of > > the world. > > Why the Buddha? Buddha wasn't shot, he just died of poisoned meat. > Do you mean "meat gone bad", that is rancid, spoiled, and thus food-poisoning? Or do you mean someone put poison in his meat?
I can't find reference to this in a search. I did find that he ate meat, even though many buddhist sects don't. "when lays community specifically purchase meat for consumption of monks and nuns, permissibility of meat eating differ among different Buddhist sects. Theravada Pali Cannon record instance of Buddha eating meat which were specifically purchased for Buddha. Acceptance of authenticity of Pali Sutta differ within Mahayana sects and Mahayana sutras does not record Buddha eating meat. While no Mahayana sects consider Pali sutras to be inauthentic, Chinese Buddhist sects tend to consider this particular part of writing in Pali suttas to be false. Japanese Buddhist sects generally accept that Buddha ate meat." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_cuisine Soem will say its my limitations, but somehow I prefer saints (and their wisdom) who don't eat meat. One story is that SBS died of food poisoning. If Buddha did too, its an odd and interesting trend among saints, and in Buddha's case an avatar (per some). Hard to fathom karma, much less the karma and taking on of collective karma of saints. It just seems an odd way for Buddha to go -- eating meat. Even that may be moral tale. Then again, animal sacrafice was an integral part of many religions in theri pre-modern forms. In pre 70AD judiasm, before destruction of the temple, sacrafices were done right in the temple. I guess eating the prasad of sacrafice has a logic. If one gets over the hurdle of the idea that killing animals is a way to please god and atone for sins. And in the modern age, eating meat, and supporting the whole caged meat industry complex, is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions -- methane in particular. Global warming doesn't seem to be a divine reward for righteous activity.
