Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt00763)

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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 
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> 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


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> From: Mauri [mailto:mhart@idirect.ca]
> Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 7:42 PM
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> Subject: Re: Theos-World knowing the reality of what you eat or do
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> Eldon B Tucker wrote:
> <<Personally, I don't feel bad when
> picking an orange or digging up potatoes.>>
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> I'm wondering if you have invented a
> techique for digging out potatoes
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> Speculatively,
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