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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ex-muslim Ahmed" data-source="post: 11147756" data-attributes="member: 179431">Of course there is a debate as to what was " Sukaramaddawa" and there is no consensus on what it really was. Having said that Buddha , like many holy men in India was dependent on alms and offering of food by others. Probably alms were offered by farm owners and fishermen as well and Buddha would have accepted them without discrimination. This is the very reason Buddha in Vinaya pitaka stated that a Bhikku cannot reject an offering by a layman.  In the Amagandha Sutta in the Sutta Nipata, an vegetarian Brahmin confronts Kassapa Buddha  (a previous Buddha before Gautama Buddha) in regard to the evil of  eating meat. The Buddha countered the argument by listing acts which  cause real moral defilement and then at the end of the verse, he  emphasized that the consumption of meat is not equivalent to those acts.  ("... this is the stench giving defilement, not the consumption of  meat"). "taking life, beating, wounding, binding, stealing, lying,  deceiving, worthless knowledge, adultery; this is stench. Not the eating  of meat." (Amagandha Sutta).Thanks for the response.</blockquote>

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