Insects Are Stupid

Spirituality
#1

It’s Christmas time in Australia and along with the heat and humidity comes the harbinger of Yuletide…the enigmatic ‘Christmas Beetle’.

They are swarming, nocturnal creatures who live in ground burrows during the day because any source of direct light immediately kills them.

I am a follower of Ahimsa (or try) and I also have a gaping hole in my kitchen flyscreen and a habit of leaving a flourescent light on in there.

Well, disaster struck this evening when I walked into my kitchen and saw about 100 of these things dead all over the floor. I was like: “silly things you all are…why fly into the light when you know it’s going to kill you?”

Then I had to stop myself from going into spontaneous meditation as I was cleaning up bug carcasses.

Lucky it wasn’t moth season…

#2

Anything else would had ended killing them… never mind.

#3

Maybe they are just looking for light that makes them avoid darkness. Cant blame them for not want to be living in darkness.

#4

[QUOTE=fakeyogis;81292]Maybe they are just looking for light that makes them avoid darkness. Cant blame them for not want to be living in darkness.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I know…hence the whole point of this thread. lulz

#5

this would make an interesting research topic

#6

i donno why thinking Ahimsa, most people think insects or cattle animals right away?

Do u wash your hands every day quite a few times? how many bacterias get killed each time? :wink:

#7

[QUOTE=CityMonk;84310]i donno why thinking Ahimsa, most people think insects or cattle animals right away?

Do u wash your hands every day quite a few times? how many bacterias get killed each time? ;)[/QUOTE]

We dont need to take it to the extreme ;).

#8

[QUOTE=fakeyogis;84314]We dont need to take it to the extreme ;).[/QUOTE]

:slight_smile:

Agree, thats why I posted that about bacterias

We often over think Ahimsa with millions “what if?” scenarios and indirect harming.

#9

Yes but one thing just came to my mind.

If we dont remove bacterias we will become sick, then were making himsa to our selves :).

#10

[QUOTE=fakeyogis;84326]Yes but one thing just came to my mind.

If we dont remove bacterias we will become sick, then were making himsa to our selves :).[/QUOTE]

:wink: yep… thats what I call over-thinking bout aHimsa;)

the rule is simple : do not think about harming and do no harm. that’s is

i even donno if meat eating nowdays can be considered himsa…it does not involve direct violence toward the cow or hen…

some people (especially) children do not associate meat they eat with the live creature. Some of my fellows donno how the whole chicken looks like…

#11

Meat eaters might not kill the animal but they are participating in it to some level so it will create some himsa but not so bad as if they ordered the killing or did it them selves . No customers for meat no slaughtering. Indirect customers are also customers.

#12

The entire planet is a war zone of death and dying including your very body, life feeding on life, it?s impossible to exist without causing harm, is it possable for a spec of finite consciousness to judge what happens in the infinite absolute.

#13

The rules are made to transform our mind and it does not mean the rules them selves are the truth.

Even if ahimsa is impossible as you say, following it as good as one can will transform him and thats the purpose. If one does not care for others how can he then become a yogi and help others?

#14

I read what you are saying but eventually even this becomes a hindrance that needs to be let go of, once one sees they?re not separate from anything a state of unconditional compassion happens naturally.

?That which you are, your true self, you love it, and whatever you do, you do for your own happiness. To find it, to know it, to cherish it is your basic urge. Since time immemorial you loved yourself, but never wisely. Use your body and mind wisely in the service of the self, that is all. Be true to your own self, love yourself absolutely. Do not pretend that you love others as yourself. Unless you have realized them as one with yourself, you cannot love them. Don’t pretend to be what you are not, don’t refuse to be what you are. Your love of others is the result of self- knowledge, not its cause. Without self-realization, no virtue is genuine. When you know beyond all doubting that the same life flows through all that is and you are that life, you will love all naturally and spontaneously. When you realize the depth and fullness of yourself, you know that every living being and the entire universe are included in your affection. But when you look at anything as separate from you, you cannot love it for you are afraid of it. Alienation causes fear and fear deepens alienation. It is a vicious circle. Only self-realization can break it. Go for it resolutely.? ~Nisargadatta Maharaj