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Re: Theos-World knowing the reality of what you eat or do

Jan 23, 2005 05:46 AM
by Bill Meredith





----- Original Message ----- From: "Eldon B Tucker" <eldon@theosophy.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: RE: Theos-World knowing the reality of what you eat or do



Nope. The potato has to die. Of course, if I put a chunk of it back into the
ground and that part starts growing, did I kill the potato?

"If" is a mighty big word here.

It almost sounds like we are congratulating ourselves on knowing the reality of what we eat or do when we declare ourselves vegetarians. I wonder if we gladly share our food with the mice, ants, and cockroachs who take up residence in or near our homes? Do we give freely of our blood to the mosquito who lands on our arm? When we plant our potato rows, do we concern ourselves with the micro inhabitants of the soil as we sweep out cultivation tools through their world with tsunami-like force, destroying their homes and killing their offspring?

The theosophical reality seems to be that since nothing is dead in the universe, we sustain our bodies by ingesting, processing, and expelling living material. Inevitably we kill others so that we can continue. But since nothing ever really dies, aren't we really participating in the processes whereby the monadic essence of a potato becomes a cow and then eventually a man. Can anyone prove that one piece of living material is more valuable than another?


bill


-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca]
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:42 PM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World knowing the reality of what you eat or do




Eldon B Tucker wrote:
<<Personally, I don't feel bad when
picking an orange or digging up potatoes.>>

I'm wondering if you have invented a
techique for digging out potatoes
without injuring or killing the critters
in the ground.

Speculatively,
Mauri







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