So in this situation, the obvious question is: Do you suspect, after just hearing an animal scream in the kitchen while your meal - of meat - was being prepared, that you are now being served that very animal that has just screamed its last while presumably being butchered in the kitchen for you to eat?D1W1 wrote:In this Sutta Buddha says there are three conditions meat can be eaten:
1. When the animals are not seen to have been killed for oneself
2. When someone is not told by other people that an animal has been killed for himself
3. When one does not suspect an animal has been killed for oneself
What if someone heard an animal was screaming when that particular meat is prepared, is this included in three conditions above or not?
Thanks.
And of course only you can answer that question in that situation - although from this purely textual and perhaps hypothetical description it surely sounds like there would be reason for suspicion, and hence, condition number 3 "one does not suspect an animal has been killed for oneself" would be violated.
But of course we cannot certainly answer for you if you suspect in that situation that the animal has been killed for you. You might have more information and reasons to believe otherwise.
Sorry that I only reply now. I had been wanting for more clarity of what you are unclear about. It seems that this question of yours is also related to this other one. I might be coming back to that one later, but now have to go for some pizza driving.