Dhamma Talk Video 20: Non-Cruelty to Animals; Liberal values in Buddhism

Here’s a 40 min recorded video Dhamma Talk (90MB .mp4).

Topics:

• Animal Sacrifice, Brahmins, Ceremonies, participation, morality, giving from the heart, merit, puñña

Suttas:

• DN 5: With Kūṭadanta - A rare sutta recommending non-cruelty to animals. It also recommends non-cruelty to humans as well, in that:

  “No bondservants, employees, or workers did their jobs under threat of punishment and danger, weeping with tearful faces. Those who wished to work did so, while those who did not wish to did not. They did the work they wanted to, and did not do what they didn’t want to.”

License:

• Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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