Cycle of life: we're all cannibals!
Re: "Bullinger's beef lacks substance" - Letters 10th October 2012.
I admire, appreciate and agree with much of what Eric Bahrt has to say on the issue of vegetarianism. However, it is feasible that Horst Bullinger was attempting to express a disillusion with Mr Bahrt’s sometimes extremist perspective. Religionising an argument can lessen the potential impact of the message, or put people off totally. Moderation, not conversion, is a much more achievable aim.
A discourse by Osho caused me to smile. “Life is one...Life knows no [ego], no centre. You breath, life enters into you; you exhale, you enter into life. There is no separation. You eat and trees enter into you through the fruit. Then one day you die, you are buried in the earth, and the trees suck you up and you become fruits...Your children will eat you again...You think you are a vegetarian? Don’t be deceived by appearances – we are all cannibals!”
Yours faithfully,
John Shepherd
