lol I can often seem to be deaf ears too.
I just wanted to add something because Jade and Jeremy have touched on something which I have had many thoughts for the longest time...
It’s about the concept of being called a militant, or not. I have been a vegetarian in my twenties, when starting to study Buddhism then. So most of my life I have been so, and more of a vegan in last decades, but once in a while a few times a year, I’ll suddenly will cook a small amount of ground meat. At birth which was after WW2 in france, I had severe anemia, and it could be this remnant or it could be due to something else, I am ashamed to say that I forgive myself each time this happens, as well as sorrow and gratefulness towards the animal slaughtered.
But I have been in protests either for peace, against war, or for ending animal slaughter. I have always felt non militant probably because I don’t quite feel militant feeling too lazy deep inside.
Anyway, I am very grateful to both Jade and Jeremy , and everyone on this thread, because I resent anger when I am in a protest and I am always borderline between being so ready to fight, get hurt, who cares, and also so ready to give up and let be.
There is ambiguity there inside me. Buddhism is interresting because as a non violent philosophy it also talks at time of ‘Rightful Anger”, and then some action.
Anyway, not sure this whole makes sense, but I wanted to say thank you anyway, in great part for this “uncomfortable “ and “not resonating “.
I just wanted to add something because Jade and Jeremy have touched on something which I have had many thoughts for the longest time...
It’s about the concept of being called a militant, or not. I have been a vegetarian in my twenties, when starting to study Buddhism then. So most of my life I have been so, and more of a vegan in last decades, but once in a while a few times a year, I’ll suddenly will cook a small amount of ground meat. At birth which was after WW2 in france, I had severe anemia, and it could be this remnant or it could be due to something else, I am ashamed to say that I forgive myself each time this happens, as well as sorrow and gratefulness towards the animal slaughtered.
But I have been in protests either for peace, against war, or for ending animal slaughter. I have always felt non militant probably because I don’t quite feel militant feeling too lazy deep inside.
Anyway, I am very grateful to both Jade and Jeremy , and everyone on this thread, because I resent anger when I am in a protest and I am always borderline between being so ready to fight, get hurt, who cares, and also so ready to give up and let be.
There is ambiguity there inside me. Buddhism is interresting because as a non violent philosophy it also talks at time of ‘Rightful Anger”, and then some action.
Anyway, not sure this whole makes sense, but I wanted to say thank you anyway, in great part for this “uncomfortable “ and “not resonating “.