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**AK47rulz** · 01-27-2011, 10:17 PM

Does not the knowledge of the cycle of Karma mean we come back as any being? So when we eat meat we could be eating our own grandparents? Far-fetched maybe, but Buddhism's own belief indicates this could be so.

Hi Milly,
I agree with you 100% on that point, which is why I have been vegetarian for 22 years now but for me it took a bit more that just belief or intellectual conviction to make me stop eating meat. I was a meat-eating Buddhist and saw no contradiction in what I was doing. In fact I had no intention whatsoever of changing, just because some Buddhists were vegetarian.

I was never put under any pressure but one evening whilst in meditation I underwent a profound experience which I have difficulty describing but from that moment on I 'knew' that I had been eating my mothers and that was the end of meat eating for me. I can't speak for any other Buddhists but that was what changed things for me.

To this day I maintain that I'm not vegetarian due to health, ethical or religious conviction, which confuses most people. I'm vegetarian because I can't bring myself to consume the bodies of these beings.

I have been eating meat all my life through ignorance but what can a self-professed Buddhist's excuse be? Who knows, you'd need to ask them. A big Mac can be quite persuasive I'm told.

Namaste
kris

01-27-2011, 10:17 PM	#20
AK47rulz Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 612 Senior Member	Does not the knowledge of the cycle of Karma mean we come back as any being? So when we eat meat we could be eating our own grandparents? Far-fetched maybe, but Buddhism's own belief indicates this could be so. Hi Milly, I agree with you 100% on that point, which is why I have been vegetarian for 22 years now but for me it took a bit more that just belief or intellectual conviction to make me stop eating meat. I was a meat-eating Buddhist and saw no contradiction in what I was doing. In fact I had no intention whatsoever of changing, just because some Buddhists were vegetarian. I was never put under any pressure but one evening whilst in meditation I underwent a profound experience which I have difficulty describing but from that moment on I 'knew' that I had been eating my mothers and that was the end of meat eating for me. I can't speak for any other Buddhists but that was what changed things for me. To this day I maintain that I'm not vegetarian due to health, ethical or religious conviction, which confuses most people. I'm vegetarian because I can't bring myself to consume the bodies of these beings. I have been eating meat all my life through ignorance but what can a self-professed Buddhist's excuse be? Who knows, you'd need to ask them. A big Mac can be quite persuasive I'm told. Namaste kris
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