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is silk ethical?

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  • This topic has 7 replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 16 years, 5 months ago by Jernej.
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  • November 14, 2008 at 2:32 pm #29588
    atxryan
    Participant

    Hello,
    I remember a while back someone posted something about how contact lenses can be made from silk, and that this was considered green. But the article also described that silk was acquire by burning sleeping silk worms alive. Any opinions on how that is “green”? Is that “ethical” (yes, that’s a highly subjective term..) at all? What has been the Chinese peoples’ rationalization for this? Is there any other way to acquire silk? My current opinion is probably obvious from the questions I asked, but I also asked the questions because it’s changable. thanks for any input

    November 14, 2008 at 11:10 pm #29589
    Dog
    Participant

    If you know your heart you do not need ethics or morals. I find most of the green movement taken to extreme is a removal of the human species and its effect. Unlike the ancient ways we do not honor our partners, like our food, clothing, computers ect. All of these in the future I see being designed and cared for with the perspective that they are our partners in way making and part of the living chi field but still not human we have the responsibility of choosing direction and walking one foot in heaven and earth.

    November 15, 2008 at 3:03 pm #29591
    atxryan
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    November 20, 2008 at 3:47 am #29593
    Jernej
    Participant

    yes
    its personal
    earth is not politically correct

    earth is meat blood teeth passion

    understanig anorexic
    knowing exactly what is
    and resisting it

    war

    November 21, 2008 at 12:40 pm #29595
    atxryan
    Participant

    what i really meant to ask was
    are you okay with burning animals alive?
    i didn’t really mean for it to be as part of some ethic or moral system (which my post did make it sound like and i think you and Dog thought I meant), but how a person feels about the practice, and i was trying to ask it in a nice, open way.

    Jernej, why did you say:
    understanig anorexic
    knowing exactly what is
    and resisting it
    ?

    November 21, 2008 at 3:09 pm #29597
    Dog
    Participant

    Part of my point was the liveness of all things which can be experienced deeply and that connection cultivated with the inner smile practice.

    November 21, 2008 at 9:53 pm #29599
    Steven
    Moderator

    Hard to say.

    Who’s to say that the silk worms that die from being used
    in silk production, weren’t created for that very purpose,
    and that their very cataclysmic death is the ultimate gift
    of love on their part to produce something wonderful. You
    can’t ask the silk worms . . .

    My personal feeling is something akin to the previous paragraph.

    S

    November 24, 2008 at 7:05 am #29601
    Jernej
    Participant

    i know of little monkey
    his parents take him to eye trainning
    2-3hour sessions
    several times per week with professionals
    other days home practice
    she got from -4 to -3 or something like that

    the relaxation path is the bates method or similar
    the aggressive is rigorous liver and gall bladder clensing
    (one wrote down menu)

    yet you chose to focus on quick fixes
    and out of those you go
    for throwing peroxide or encymes in the eye
    or just slowly choking eyes to thet

    of course also the eye glasses weaken the eyes
    a stupid societal bandha
    an easy temporal fix for goggles is just seriously lower bent (for 2 D)
    while above workings

    so after going and focusing on a quick fix
    the issue presented was small critter suffering

    lets step back. 5billion people, 80 years per incarnation, leaves mote than
    5000 human individuals dead every hour
    countfull other animals too.

    some die of violent death. others of smaller critters slowly. all are eaten up if circumstances permit

    more precisly every body is a transmutation of a previos body of something.
    and transmutation involves death, concurrent or sequencial.

    pure are those that are not.
    so if an animal wants to go pure, it is a fast.
    conscious fasting.
    or unconscious fasting, as in case of anorexic.
    the opposite of a passionate human.
    both have the same knowledge or innards,
    but one choose one way, which includes teething meat,
    and other opposite.

    so the principle reaction of anorexic and peta human are of similar nature.
    there was an interesting move sineater.
    eating the body
    eating the karma
    as one americanative (?) one my limb is chicken other is some other etc.
    it is not profiteering per se.
    more like transforming of one karma into another.
    but there is always karma.

    karma body
    no karma no body
    easy

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