Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
.he wso a wgetMm mo by Ihe way though I bm't go! on Uur kick ha<br />
figUflW mybe m thll modem world w be a vegumm Is w spht hn rrna all<br />
Mum h g l at what thehey en."<br />
SnWr vinv is mnc clearly illumad in Imwillern van dm Wetning'r hrpry Minor,<br />
in which Snyda (dkd Ocrald by Wetcring) explains his views on Uu W ith of<br />
wpctuianism pnctivd by Japancs Za Buddhii. Wuaing wrim:<br />
Ti~.lfymeat~Iaywplsoldlllivingbeing. Evaymowyaurmh<br />
is deadly for some inM or other. Your body kih m i d . And what is death?<br />
An illusion, a change, a birth. a p- of ping from one stage w mnha:<br />
'But why don't manb eat meal then?'<br />
"They do eat<br />
-<br />
meat,' Oedd &d, %ut nn here, mt in the monauerv. Thev ve<br />
o h lnrlrsd by m l e en the nemghbovrhmd pnd then they eat &ch<br />
11 ofTend to thcm, meat, fish, rhnrnp. you "me 11. they cpt 11 .me] m n g<br />
whch ware followng 1s prckd wtth vad~Uan A thourand y- ago %me Zm<br />
nmk smd caong plphng ha nce gwl and Ihal'r why they stlll do kt now ~ n d<br />
a thmd ago M Qihml01 BuddhIt dcndrd Uw one huIdnnt eat ma1 and<br />
b ' s why Zm monk suU refuse to eat mear. pmmdd they have the facltng that<br />
somarnc IS qerwnng thcm "<br />
~Snydap"sIhendical~~IhefurtpleaeptnednotbcfoUawd~Y<br />
rince it is m dy a m aw dudition. Eating meat and even killing M forms which M<br />
illusiDnary and need mt be &sewed ex* as pan of the monastic rvk<br />
as it applies W veg-sm. He saceped tha it mat no patient beings werr w be<br />
Wed under any dreuMtances. In Dcrolarion Angclr, Kcmuac's mwr, Jack Duluol,<br />
'Jan* van wewing, me E ~ ~ Mimr: I Y Ezprir~cr in a Japanex .?en<br />
Monarrcv (Bormn: Haughton Mifflin, 1974). pp. 6061.
Change language