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There's More to Life than just being Alive - Lockdown Anxiety about 1st Precept
Ajahn Dhammasiha is asked about lockdown-anxiety regarding the first Buddhist precept, namely to abstain from killing any living beings. Are we breaking the first precept if we inadvertently infect someone else with corona virus, and then that person might die? Ajahn points out that INTENTION is a necessary factor to break the precept against killing. If we have no intention to infect anyone, and we are not even acting negligently or carelessly in our interactions, we can not possibly break the first precept or create bad karma, even if we unknowingly, inadvertently happened to cause an…
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