Reply To: Eating meat

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Lal
Keymaster

Issues like this can be easily resolved by looking at what kind of actions will bring “bad consequences” in terms of kamma vipāka.

The following are the dasa akusala or the ten immoral deeds:

Bodily actions: killing, stealing, sexual misconduct
Speech: lying, slandering, harsh words, frivolous talk
Thoughts: greed, anger/hate, wrong views

As we can see meat-eating does not fall into any of them.

When you buy meat at the supermarket, that animal had been killed by someone else. That person had already done the “bad kamma.”
– The Buddha did not prohibit meat-eating (even for bhikkhus) because of that.

However, this is not an endorsement for eating meat.

By the way, a very potent bad kamma is to have wrong views. These include not believing in the laws of kamma, rebirth, etc.

P.S. This is not the correct forum for this question. The ‘General Forum” would have been better. Please pay attention to select the correct forum to post a question/comment.