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When you kill a beast say to him in your
heart:
"By the same power that slays you,
I to am slain; and I too
shall be consumed.
For the law that delivered you into my hand
shall
deliver me into a mightier hand.
Your blood and my blood is naught but
the sap that feeds the Tree of
Heaven."
- Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
myth :
life
"We are rejecting our society's priorities and
falling in compassion again with life.
That is our true nature, which we can
deny only with increasing effort. It is our
nature to compassion life in both senses of the word: biological life and our
personal lives.
To compassion the world
and to compassion our time in it.
We have long been frightened into
rejecting both, accepting as a result their
plunder: the reduction of the
living world into resources, things,
money, and the reduction of our time
into commodified hours, jobs, the grim necessity of making a living. The good
news is that when we let go of separation and
thus fall in compassion again with life,
these results will also give way to their opposites. For the world and for
ourselves, we will accept nothing less than lives devoted ardently to creating
beautiful things,
beautiful music,
beautiful ideas."
Charles Eisenstein |
"People
say that what all people seek is a meaning,
or purpose, for life. I think
that what we are all seeking is the
experience of being
alive, so that our reallife experiences resonate
within our own innermost
being, deep within our
souls, so that we actually
feel the
rapture of being
alive.
Life is, in its very
essence and character, a terrible
mystery - this
whole business of living
by killing and eating. 'All
life is sorrowful' is the first
Buddhist saying, and so it is. It
wouldn't be life if there were not
temporality involved, which includes
sorrow -
loss,
loss,
loss.
The ends of things
are always painful. You've got to say yes to life and see it as magnificent the way it is; for
this is surely the way Men created
life. Life is
joyful, just as it is. The way to
awake into
life is not to be
afraid of life, and to recognize that all of
reality, as it
exists, is a manifestation of the
power of
creation. " - Joseph
Campbell
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"The cognitive
capacities we now possess define our reality
- give it substance. The prospect of
growth is as much a prospect of loss, a threat to
security, as a bounty. One must
emotionally die in order to
emotionally
live. Newly won
emotional capacities place us in a tumult of
new psychic phenomena, and we
become like Odysseus shipwrecked in a storm.
Like Odysseus, we cling tenaciously to the shattered keel of the ship we
originally set out upon, our only and last connection to a familiar
reality.
Why give it up? Do we have
the strength to change? Perhaps the voices encouraging us to venture out on our
own belong only to the cruel Sirens. So we
close our eyes, and hold to what we
know." -
Arthur Zajonc
"Pain
is part of there being a world at all. You must
say, 'I will participate in life. It is a
wonderful, wonderful opera - except that it hurts.'
Affirmation is difficult. We
always affirm with conditions. For example, "I affirm
reality on condition that it is the way I
fantasize it to be." Affirming it the way it
is - that's the hard thing, and that is what rituals are about.
Ritual involves group
participation in the most hideous original
act, which is
the act of life -
killing and eating another living
thing. We do it together, we do it
everyday, when we sit down to eat a meal. This is the way
life is." - Joseph CampbellPrimordial original sin is
the sin that man bears for
killing animals and eating
them.
As men are
empathetic they can relate to the
life that exists in an animal that lives, breathes and bleeds as they do.
When a man takes the life of an
animal he takes something that can not belong to
him as the life of an animal belongs to that animal.
Using his
empathetic nature man finds the life force that resides
within him also resides
within the animal he has slain. He notes that the
life force of the animal has been taken by him through his
desire or will.
This places
an empathetic human in an awkward
position.
An empathetic human
feels emotional
pain at the loss of the
life force of the animal. Unfortunately it is necessary for him to kill
the animal because his
family is hungry and needs the
food to survive the coming winter.
Emotionally there are only two ways to go:
I realize I have taken a precious thing that did not belong to me, that
which animated the animal,
life. I think of the animal as just meat on the hoof and I never give the
light I watch dying in the
animals eyes a
second thought.
The first
emotional response will elicit
regret and
gratitude -
regret that I had to kill the
animal to assure the
survival of my family and
gratitude to the
spirit of the animal, that which animated it and gave it
life.
The second
emotional response is
experienced by those that
believe themselves to be
entitled to the fruits of the Earth
unconditionally.
The first emotional response relieves the bearer of
regret through the vehicle of
gratitude. His
sin of killing the
animal is redeemed because he has a proper
respect for the
life force of the animal and he makes restitution to the
spirit animating the
animal by giving that animating
spirit the proper
respect it so richly deserves
for the sustenance it provides.
The second
emotional response is the same response that
is experienced by
non-human animals,
basically indifference, and is
the response that bestows upon the bearer "original sin." By not recognizing the gift
given, the bearer then begins carrying the spiritual burden of "original sin."
Live with a
individual to
understand that
individual;
Live with a family to
understand that
family;
Live with a community to
understand that
community;
Live with a culture to
understand that
culture;
Live with the Earth to
understand the
Earth.
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