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I’m sure I’ll get the usual flood of outrage email for saying this, but to me this event is perfect, and to observe it creates no resistance within me. I expect that only a handful of people reading this can understand that perspective. I know the outrage bandwagon is far more socially acceptable, and my refusal to hop on board will perhaps create outrage for my not being outraged. I can accept that too.
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It is quite right. The event was perfect. Not in the sense of how we normally use and limit that word. Usually, we use perfection to denote what is good for our own selfishness. But in this case, perfection equals reality. The event was perfect. How do we know? Because it happened. It is horrible, and it happened.
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Whenever I experience resistance towards the existence of animal cruelty, like seeing someone wolfing down a chicken’s limb with nary a concern for the animal’s suffering, I know it’s not about the other person. It’s not about “the system” that hurts animals either. It’s all a projection of my consciousness. The conflict is within me. If I turn within, I can see that I’m really wrestling with my own lack of compassion. That’s why it bothers me to see others doing it — it’s resonating with something already inside me.
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I guess my question would be, why does one bother you but the other doesn't? (one being the chicken leg, the other being the shooting victims) If nothing is there, then nothing is there. But your identity still gets in the way, if you think one more important than the other. Can you see this? There is no half assing this kind of thing. It is either one, or the other. If your identity still gets in the way, then it is always there. If that is the case, how can we even trust our own judgement, when we see everything through our own prejudice and viewpoint?
There are deeper places than what you have explored. Keep asking yourself and questioning. Question the stuff that you really believe in. Not because something else is better, but because that is where we like to hide.
Why would seeing someone eating an animal bother you at all? Don't say it is because I am this or I am that. You are just projecting an image of what you believe to be right, on top of reality. But can't you see that the guy or gal eating the chicken is perfect too? Nothing is there. Only your thoughts.
If in your past you ate animals, and now you don't, what has changed? If you hold (held) both as a belief, then it is all the same. Why is one belief different from another?
If you really see reality - reality being what meets us when we are present without the interference of thought - then you will always see it. There is no, "Yes it is real, but sometimes it is different, " or "It depends." Reality is reality.
If the school shooting doesn't bother you - as being perfect, it wouldn't - but the animal eater does, then I would would question wether you have really seen anything at all.
Please don't take this as mean or anything, but our words can seem that way. That is the limitation of language in a forum like this; you can't really hear the intention of the other person. It might sound negative, but be positive. You know what I mean, right? Let me know if I am way off base. We could be saying the same thing, just with different words.
Great blog post. I really enjoyed it.