Death and life are opposites - so saying that death is part of life is like saying that silence is part of sound. Neither statement is correct. While our minds are often conditioned to define one from each of these two pairs of opposites as being relative to it's opposite concept, the reality is that you will not find silence in sound, sound in silence, death in life or life in death.
Death of the body is a process and experience that can be encountered as part of creation and existence - however, that does not mean that death is part of life. I feel that there is a gap being presented here in the defining of the word 'life' - whereby the word 'life' is being used to describe existence itself - rather than the state of being that life really is.
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My garden failed this year, grasshoppers ate everything. Still, I can feed 100 people this winter if I need to. I live the life I live that I may feed the hungry when disaster strikes, as I believe is fairly imminent. I cannot feed masses of people vegetables, I cannot grow enough of them and the climate here is too harsh for it to be feasible.
Holding a value system that requires you feel morally superior to others is dicey karma. Good luck with that.
Again, I am simply describing the reality of our deeply out of balance planet and the associated vibrational physics. Karma is cause and effect, not a balance of payments and judgement.
For the animals, disaster strikes every day through our denial of the ways of balance on Earth.
Your words: 'Vegans really do think plants are not as valued as animals, and I find that a little less than conscious... but I still love my vegan friends.'
Is that the kind of value system you mean? ;)
Good luck then!
Ps: now if you hadn't left this thread you could try and point out where I showed a value system like that. Would have been interesting.
PPS: Just checked your blog.
Had no idea you were 'enlightened'.
Now I understand...
I explain some of why death is not part of life, here
Death of the body is part of this life.
You acknowledge this, right?
Death and life are opposites - so saying that death is part of life is like saying that silence is part of sound. Neither statement is correct. While our minds are often conditioned to define one from each of these two pairs of opposites as being relative to it's opposite concept, the reality is that you will not find silence in sound, sound in silence, death in life or life in death.
Death of the body is a process and experience that can be encountered as part of creation and existence - however, that does not mean that death is part of life. I feel that there is a gap being presented here in the defining of the word 'life' - whereby the word 'life' is being used to describe existence itself - rather than the state of being that life really is.
Does that make sense?
Yes. I see where you are coming from.
Death is part of 'this' life, though.
I used the term 'life' as meaning 'this material existence'.
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My garden failed this year, grasshoppers ate everything. Still, I can feed 100 people this winter if I need to. I live the life I live that I may feed the hungry when disaster strikes, as I believe is fairly imminent. I cannot feed masses of people vegetables, I cannot grow enough of them and the climate here is too harsh for it to be feasible.
Holding a value system that requires you feel morally superior to others is dicey karma. Good luck with that.
Again, I am simply describing the reality of our deeply out of balance planet and the associated vibrational physics. Karma is cause and effect, not a balance of payments and judgement.
For the animals, disaster strikes every day through our denial of the ways of balance on Earth.
Your words: 'Vegans really do think plants are not as valued as animals, and I find that a little less than conscious... but I still love my vegan friends.'
Is that the kind of value system you mean? ;)
Good luck then!
Ps: now if you hadn't left this thread you could try and point out where I showed a value system like that. Would have been interesting.
PPS: Just checked your blog.
Had no idea you were 'enlightened'.
Now I understand...