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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kalyanamithra" data-source="post: 2874374" data-attributes="member: 99586">Pinwath mithurani,Although Buddhists refrain from killing animals; strict vegetarianism is not praised in Dhamma. Actually one's excessive devotions to such views can cause progress in Dhamma to be retarded...If we choose not to eat meat; we should be mindful that it's not a virtue; and that we should never think high of ourselves because of that... It's good not to be practiced as 'vegetarianism'...Siha Senadhipathi Sutta is one instant where one can easily get the cue that vegetarianism is not part of Dhamma<a href="http://www.gautamabuddha.org/downloads/Mp3/Seeha_Senapathi_Sutta.mp3" target="_blank">http://www.gautamabuddha.org/downloads/Mp3/Seeha_Senapathi_Sutta.mp3</a>"Pancha sila" (the Five Percepts) sets some limits to prevent us from going off the Path... and it is these percepts (or higher sila prescribed in Dhamma if we prefer) that we should have persistent in us... As we know "sila" should be practiced as a component of the Path... Theruwan saranai!</blockquote>

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