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Originally Posted by bilderburger w/cheese
marriage/relationships... is that out the door in the new age as well?
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Interesting thread Bildeburger ! Heavy on the Relish please...
These are questions I've often asked myself. Especially the vegetarian/fruitarian ones. Because if you take it to it's logical extreme, even pulling up a carrot is 'killing' something. I'm a meat eater myself, so I'm aware that something dies to feed me. But if I wanted to switch to real ethical living, at oneness with everything else? If the whole is harmed, then I am harmed?
That's the message, but not easy to see the 'how' of practice. Maybe it's just a direction and some can go further than others.
As for relationships....
In my idle thoughts of setting up a little farm with a few like minded souls, who all live and work together, the thought did cross my mind that there might always be competition for one 'resource' in particular. A partner !
Even if there's enough food, water, shelter...and we're eating fruit. but let's just say there's one less person of one sex than the other, and everyone is single. Well, wouldn't competition creep in at some level? Even amongst enlightened beings such as ourselves...there's going to be some kind of desire line that will cause people to butt heads.