hey tiltbillings, may i call you tilt?tiltbillings wrote:One use for a large kitchen knife: To be sure, this is a use I have never put to my large kitchen knife, a tool that I find very useful, but following the logic of some here, it is a tool that should not be owned by good Buddhists because of its potential for easy and proven lethality.bodom wrote:Hi Chriscooran wrote:Hello Bodom,
The main purpose of an umbrella is not to wound or kill.
with metta,
Chris
Nor is the kitchen knife I am using currently too make dinner for myself and the kids. As always it is the intention behind picking these tools up and what use we put them too that is important and what I wished to communicate with the story.
i think your missing the mark, a kitchen knife is designed to cut and prepare food, a bowling ball is used to play a game, a vase is designed to hold flowers, all of these objects could be used to harm another being but it was not their designed function, and society does not force us to keep them under lock and key. a gun however was designed to fire a metal projectile at an object, and because of this regulations have been put in place to protect society from the dangers ie; a gun must be stored under lock and key. owning a gun even if you are the most responsible ethical person on the planet and only use the gun to shoot paper targets, says i support guns and there uses, and generations ahead will say my dad was a buddhist and he had a gun, guns must be OK. and the world will be full of guns. we should be the change in the world that we want to see.
metta,
jason