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**DYjLN8rF** · 10-14-2011, 09:15 PM

Thoughts came to mind of people who had taken away my personal power, and I kept practicing the letting go. Many things came up....realizations of how they acted out of ignorance, anger at how they had "set the stage" for my doormat-status while I was still young, I cried some, and kept practicing the letting go with each new thing as it came.

Hi Seeuzin,
A clear demonstration of the pain inherent in "self" and "other". We take 'refuge' in self and the life-story it carries around with it. When we learn to let that go, there can be space and understanding.

I had a brief flash of the thought "never again" I became vegetarian over twenty years ago following a profound experience in meditation and I had no inclination to relinquish meat whatsoever prior to that. I don't think it's necessary to be a vegetarian as a Buddhist, it's just that I personally can't eat the cadaver of a dead sentient being any more.

And yes, I know trillions of insects are killed in order to make my tofu etc.

10-14-2011, 09:15 PM	#5
DYjLN8rF Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 448 Senior Member	Thoughts came to mind of people who had taken away my personal power, and I kept practicing the letting go. Many things came up....realizations of how they acted out of ignorance, anger at how they had "set the stage" for my doormat-status while I was still young, I cried some, and kept practicing the letting go with each new thing as it came. Hi Seeuzin, A clear demonstration of the pain inherent in "self" and "other". We take 'refuge' in self and the life-story it carries around with it. When we learn to let that go, there can be space and understanding. I had a brief flash of the thought "never again" I became vegetarian over twenty years ago following a profound experience in meditation and I had no inclination to relinquish meat whatsoever prior to that. I don't think it's necessary to be a vegetarian as a Buddhist, it's just that I personally can't eat the cadaver of a dead sentient being any more. And yes, I know trillions of insects are killed in order to make my tofu etc.
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