Lama Chime' was very, very nice to me.
Chime Rinpoche is a very sweet man.
Lama Chime' was very, very nice to me.
PeterB wrote:At the time Aloka he was still in the robe and didnt do either drugs or alcohol.
This was a few years before he went to the US. He was a clean cut kid, straight from graduating from Oxford.
He was and being still alive, I hope, still is, I am sure, and he has had no trouble with wasps, hornets or other pests of which I am aware.Aloka wrote:Lama Chime' was very, very nice to me.
Chime Rinpoche is a very sweet man.
Which is why he was unhappy..and he had a deadline from the council who were coming back to investigate..Aloka wrote:PeterB wrote:At the time Aloka he was still in the robe and didnt do either drugs or alcohol.
This was a few years before he went to the US. He was a clean cut kid, straight from graduating from Oxford.
That changed in the time when he gave up the robes before he went to the US.
and back to topic - generally, killing even the smallest insect is avoided by Tibetans.
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I am not taking sides.. I am saying what happened.
Is a human baby a sentient being? A larva is nothing but an immature wasp, as an infant is an immature human.retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,Without wanting to stir the hornet's nest...tiltbillings wrote:But let us not forget the thousands of lavrae that will killed.
... do larvae count as sentient beings?
Extract from SN 23.2: Satta Sutta
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(For comparative purposes...) Someone can look under a microscope and see sperm moving for example, but does that make them sentient beings?I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then Ven. Radha went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "'A being,' lord. 'A being,' it's said. To what extent is one said to be 'a being'?"
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for form, Radha: when one is caught up there, tied up there, one is said to be 'a being.'
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for feeling... perception... fabrications...
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for consciousness, Radha: when one is caught up there, tied up there, one is said to be 'a being.'
Metta,
Retro.
I imagine flies count wasps among their heroes.tiltbillings wrote:Wasps are real horror story creatures. Years and years ago there was a big black mud dauber wasp at my uncles lake place. He killed it, being a big scarey bug. Being a curious little kid, I knocked down the nest and broke it open. Each cell was stuffed full of slow moving spiders, which was creepy in and of itself, but years later when I learned that those living spiders, poisoned by the wasp were a living lunch for the wasp larvae, I was really creeped out, bringing to mind the movie Alien, and thanking Jayzus I was not a spider.
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
Without wanting to stir the hornet's nest...tiltbillings wrote:But let us not forget the thousands of lavrae that will killed.
... do larvae count as sentient beings?
Extract from SN 23.2: Satta Sutta
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka ... .than.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
(For comparative purposes...) Someone can look under a microscope and see sperm moving for example, but does that make them sentient beings?I have heard that on one occasion the Blessed One was staying near Savatthi at Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. Then Ven. Radha went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "'A being,' lord. 'A being,' it's said. To what extent is one said to be 'a being'?"
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for form, Radha: when one is caught up there, tied up there, one is said to be 'a being.'
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for feeling... perception... fabrications...
"Any desire, passion, delight, or craving for consciousness, Radha: when one is caught up there, tied up there, one is said to be 'a being.'
Metta,
Retro.
Yep.... do larvae count as sentient beings?
As long as the egg cell and the spermies haven't met yet, they will perish quickly, if they don't meet. They're senteitn only after meeting and becoming one, that starts to grow.(For comparative purposes...) Someone can look under a microscope and see sperm moving for example, but does that make them sentient beings?
Eek.tiltbillings wrote:Wasps are real horror story creatures. Years and years ago there was a big black mud dauber wasp at my uncles lake place. He killed it, being a big scarey bug. Being a curious little kid, I knocked down the nest and broke it open. Each cell was stuffed full of slow moving spiders, which was creepy in and of itself, but years later when I learned that those living spiders, poisoned by the wasp were a living lunch for the wasp larvae, I was really creeped out, bringing to mind the movie Alien, and thanking Jayzus I was not a spider.