This article is inspired by atrocities committed in name of a subjective idea: the right to prove his superiority over other, regardless of its appearance and its belonging: the other who is not me, so he doesn’t exist!
Difference between animal mammal and human resides only in his consciousness of being. Do not think that a Deity, a Prophet, a Buddha, a Holy can absolve your responsibility, it is that distinguishes man of animal: He is always responsible for his acts or maybe he’s not a man.
Buddhism distinguishes five categories of person: those who live in a perpetual hell, those who are hungry for ever and those who live an endless war, the men and the gods.
The man knows that his act and his harmful activity against other will have consequences: the animal does not know it because his brain is limited.
And why the brains of some people are limited too? And if biped who wanders into town was not man, but only an animal that can walk on two legs and use its hands?
Flora Desondes for www.buddhachannel.tv
