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In reply to the discussion: Hunting, just a bad idea to go after this as if it were evil. [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)But the thing they share with other traditions is the respect for life itself...and they did not consider their prey inferior to them but just different...but all part of the great spirit...even the rocks had spirit and were respected that way.
And they saw the world as one spirit interconnected....the web of life.
And all are consumed back into that web of life...some sooner some later
But that reminded me of what I heard about some buddhist monks...when one of them dies they cut up the body and lay it out on the rocks...soon the buzzards arrive and strip the flesh from the bones...then they go gather the bones and put them in a tomb...
I always thought that was such a clever way to go...why not turn the flesh into nature right away. It doesn't turn me off at all to think that a buzzard will eat my dead flesh. they are much nicer than worms.