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18. I assure you, I am far from being an orthodox Zen practitioner.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 08:54 PM
Sep 2019

In Zen monasteries, laundry is done on certain days with proper incantations said for the souls of the bacteria being killed.

But I admire their dedication to honoring all life.

Go ahead and joke about killing spiders, but they play an important role in the web of life.

We forget that at our peril. Any biologist will tell you it is true. It's not being hippy-dippy, it's the fact we are all interconnected and we don't live above other life, we exist because of it.

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