Buddhists: I know you don't kill insects, but when you kill bacteria in your body, how do you justify this? By

Question

taking an anit-biotic you even kill friendly organisms within your body. I also wonder if a Buddhist feels somewhat concerned when he takes a walk outdoors at the risk of trampling on and killing ants. I admire Buddhism above other religions, but I know only a little about it and would like to know more in the areas mentioned.

Answer 1

bacteria is alive but it isnt an insect and it isnt even an animal, its bacteria. buddists just cant eat animals.

baciscally the five groups of living things are animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and protista

Answer 2

It's intention what the problem. Killing without intention isn't counted a problem. Look, you yourself are made of many cells and the cells are dying all the time. They die because you exist.

Your existence is the problem.
Once you move, something must happen but you have to move.
Once you eat, drink, etc, microscopic creatures in your mouth must have problem but you have to eat.

Actually, it's within your right that you don't deliberately harm others. But what you cannot avoid naturally is lawfully acceptable.

Why we all die? We die because we all are to die or exist to end. The creatures die because they're to die.

In the case of anti-biotic, if you intend to kill but not to cure, then it's bad; otherwise, it's acceptable.

To feed many people, you have to set up a farm and grow many different crops. Once you treat the soil, once you cut the crops, once you act in order to make to get food, many countless creatures in your farm have to die.

So should you stop eating? Should you stop doing anything at all? Yes, you should. This is why the intention of Buddhism is to get rid of existence because it is very controversial.

Once, the Buddha taught dhamma to several monks. Sixty of them died from sorrow whence many saw the light. The sixty monks were the ones who didn't abide by the laws. The rest saw the light because they lived by the righteousness or dhamma. People complained for the sixty deaths. Should they? Shouldn't Buddha teach the dhamma to those who had potential to see the light?

It's painful to know many get trouble once you do something. This is a reason that why the Buddha said life is suffering. This is why the Buddha praised Nibbanna or the great escape.

Answer 3

You deserve congratulations for thinking about this subject.
It is true that There are Buddhists who practice strict vegetarianism and take that to various degrees of prevention, there are also carnivorous Buddhists who are vegetarians until they get hungry. Buddhism is like business schools or Psychology seminars. If you are seeking to understand the nature of life and relationships, you fit the definition of Buddhist.

Life includes all of the animate and inanimate aspects of reality down to the tiniest speck of dust. Nichiren Daishonin wrote this, but it is sourced from old Indian thought.

The ideas of hierarchies and levels of worth that are bandied about so much are less than cotton candy.
See the poem
HOW DOTH THE FROTH?




Are you foam, or core of wave?
Serpent's tooth, or lock of knave?
When were you last ichtal fin
Part of happy otter's grin?

Are you, all of you, everywhere
Sliding down old Darwin's stair?
When were you last corral chain
Moose's head in Maine?

Do you truly know each bit
Of matter making up your wit?
Are not atoms of stellar source
Formed in novae and set on course
Shared in aeons many times
By quetzal birds, critics of rhymes?
Does not the copper in the Earth
Maintain its worth
As part of noble steed
Or the book you read?
What happens after use
Does it return to moose?

Oh blow thee high, oh solar wind
Go find a place where none have sinned
For they may not reject your ions
Jealous like a pride of lions.

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Answer 4

there r three classes of killing 1. for food 2.visible and 3.invisible. when u breath millions of microorgansms r killed. It is not a sin to kill for food that two whenever is necessary. 2. killing human beings in the name of war and hunting etc., which is a sin. But involuntery killing lives and invisible or ot felt by senses r excempted. Killing a plant is not asin because it is glued to the earth and the plant will not feel the pain. This is called JAGRATHA state of life explained in Hindu religion.
so killing lives without our knowledge and unfelt by 5 senses is permitted in Buddism.

Answer 5

Bacteria has no feeling and does not feel pain. In this sense its just like eating vegetable for buddisht. So its not killing, just like "killing" plant.

Answer 6

Hmmm. Given the belief in reincarnation, having unintentionally killed the bacterium, you are giving it a chance to come back as a "higher" form, perhaps as a republican. No, wait, as a gerbil :))

Answer 7

well im not a buddist but surely it would depend on what you regard aslife.a bactirium has no organs,no mind no thoughts ever. so im guessing they don't count them as life.