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**Kvkcgktl** · 09-01-2011, 10:08 AM

your pet goat must have had a very good life. Here in Nepal....you don't want to know about it. By the way...who knows the Folk Tale about

The Goat Who Saved the Priest ?

Thanks hajurba,

I am not good at tales, but this one remembered me the "Golden Rule" of Buddha at SN 55.7 here:

"I am one who wishes to live, who does not wishes to die. I desire happiness and disilike suffering. Since I am one who wishes to live... and dislike suffering, if someone were to take my life, that would not be pleasing and agreeable to me.
Now, if I were to take the life of another -of one who wishes to live, who does not wish to die, who desires happiness and dislikes suffering- that would not be desirable and agreeable to him, too.
What is undesirable and disagreeable to me is undesirable and disagreeable to others, too. How can I inflict upon another what is undesirable and disagreeable to me?
Having reflected thus, he himself refrains from harming life, exhorts others to refrain from harming life, and speaks in praise of refraining from harming life.
Thus his bodily conduct is purified in three respects.

09-01-2011, 10:08 AM	#27
Kvkcgktl Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 339 Senior Member	your pet goat must have had a very good life. Here in Nepal....you don't want to know about it. By the way...who knows the Folk Tale about The Goat Who Saved the Priest ? Thanks hajurba, I am not good at tales, but this one remembered me the "Golden Rule" of Buddha at SN 55.7 here: "I am one who wishes to live, who does not wishes to die. I desire happiness and disilike suffering. Since I am one who wishes to live... and dislike suffering, if someone were to take my life, that would not be pleasing and agreeable to me. Now, if I were to take the life of another -of one who wishes to live, who does not wish to die, who desires happiness and dislikes suffering- that would not be desirable and agreeable to him, too. What is undesirable and disagreeable to me is undesirable and disagreeable to others, too. How can I inflict upon another what is undesirable and disagreeable to me? Having reflected thus, he himself refrains from harming life, exhorts others to refrain from harming life, and speaks in praise of refraining from harming life. Thus his bodily conduct is purified in three respects.
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