Taoism: Way Beyond Seeking by Alan Watts

Author:Alan Watts [Watts, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780804830584
Google: qRBPAQAAIAAJ
Amazon: 0804830584
Published: 2019-10-14T19:04:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

dilemma that we have to eat in order to live, that being is killing, is to revere food, to prepare it as well as possible, and to enj oy it to the fullest extent. There is no o t h e r e t h i c a l r e s p o n s e p o s s i b l e i n t h i s s i t u a t i o n .

Remember that you are not the only pebble on the beach and that even human beings belong to mutual eating societies, j ust as much as fish and cows do, and that something in the end is going to eat you too. Of course, human beings are not, as a rule, eaten by large creatures because we have rid ourselves of things like lions and tigers . There are not many of those things around, and so i n s te a d we a r e e at e n b y tiny c r e a t u re s , b y t h e microorganisms . Our morticians are a very unreasonable group of people because they are trying to deprive all those microorganisms of their proper human foo d .

When they preserve human bodies in formaldehyde and bury them in sealed bronze caskets instead of giving the worms a meal, th o s e bodies j ust do nothing. They become more and more parchmentlike instead of continuing into the flow of the course of life, which is the proper thing to do when you die. To let the microorganisms eat us would be an act of respect for the earth from which we have gained all the years we were alive. To give ourselves back to the source of life is the courteous thing to do, and it would help keep the whole cycle going. So we should start a campaign at once to abolish the mortician’s profession and replace it with a new system in which dead human beings would be buried in great fields and left there, so those fielcis would have the most fertile soil for growing corn and lettuce and artichokes and grapevines. In this way you go back into the cycle and become everything that is beautiful.

But now, to return to my main point, here is something that is very strange. For every creature that feels it is a person and knows that it is here in the same way

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