Plants also have life but are they considered as sentient beings?
Is it acceptable to remove weeds from your garden? Is logging acceptable in buddhism?
u might as well ask if killing microbe, bacteria, viruses etc, invisible to the naked eye is against the 1st precept.
Plants, viruses, bacteria etc are not within the 6 planes of rebirth but animals is one of the rebirth plane. The 6 rebirth planes are animals, hell beings, ghosts, humans, gods and demi gods.
yes but then you should avoid all forms of killing, in thought in action in deed.
Originally posted by allkosong:Plants also have life but are they considered as sentient beings?
Is it acceptable to remove weeds from your garden? Is logging acceptable in buddhism?
Logging should be more acceptable than slash-and-burn. In one sutra which I read, it clearly says that burning vegetation to clear forests is not acceptable as many small animals and insects will die or be harmed in this way.
I'm pretty sure I've read in one sutra that slash-and-burn is not acceptable... Does anyone remember which sutra it comes from?
Originally posted by realization:Logging should be more acceptable than slash-and-burn. In one sutra which I read, it clearly says that burning vegetation to clear forests is not acceptable as many small animals and insects will die or be harmed in this way.
I'm pretty sure I've read in one sutra that slash-and-burn is not acceptable... Does anyone remember which sutra it comes from?
doesn't matter, what matter is the intentions. is it destructive or not. tearing a piece of paper with destructive intentions also have karma. read...
One instance of intention is one instance of kamma. When there is kamma there is immediate result. Even just one little thought, although not particularly important, is nevertheless not void of consequence. It will be at the least a "tiny speck" of kamma, added to the stream of conditions which shape mental activity. With repeated practice, through repeated proliferation by the mind, or through expression as external activity, the result becomes stronger in the form of character traits, physical features or repercussions from external sources.
A destructive intention does not have to be on a gross level. It may, for example, lead to the destruction of only a very small thing, such as when we angrily tear up a piece of paper. Even though that piece of paper has no importance in itself, the action still has some effect on the quality of the mind. The effect is very different from tearing up a piece of paper with a neutral state of mind, such as when throwing away scrap paper. If there is repeated implementation of such angry intention, the effects of accumulation will become clearer and clearer, and may develop to more significant levels.
http://www.buddhanet.net/cmdsg/kamma1.htm#intention
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Originally posted by An Eternal Now:Vegetables do not have minds, are not capable of giving rise to mental distress, emotions, hatred and suffering, unlike human and animals. Plants however have a form of awareness that allows it to grow towards sunlight. This does not cause suffering and affllictions since they do not have minds and delusions.
I see. Thank you, it's good to know that plants do not experience suffering.