Suffocating Silkworms!

[kateorman]

At a vegetarian restaurant I picked up one of those teensy free Buddhist books, Liao-Fan's Four Lessons, which dates from the Ming Dynasty. For my tastes it's a bit too much about accumulating merit so as to reap the karmic rewards - the dude keeps detailed lists of his good deeds! - but there were a couple of passages which have stayed with me

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so, I've just gotta know.

[iblis_kukl]

What did those poor silkworms ever do to you?

eliazar
(Also, I love that last tag.)

[off_coloratura]

Someone on my friendslist quoted Carrie Fisher the other day:

"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die."

[kateorman]

Oh, that's excellent.

Thich Nhat Hanh compares anger to running down the street after the arsonist, instead of putting out the fire in your house! :)