questions on five precepts
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Hi everyone,
I'm new to SgForum.
There is a 1st precept in buddhism that we must not kill
If I have to kill, ants, mosquitoes, cockroaches (pest), I think I have breached the 1st precept of killing...
Any intelligent ways to avoid this..?
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Originally posted by 2009novice:
Hi everyone,
I'm new to SgForum.
There is a 1st precept in buddhism that we must not kill
If I have to kill, ants, mosquitoes, cockroaches (pest), I think I have breached the 1st precept of killing...
Any intelligent ways to avoid this..?
1. avoid inviting ants, mosquitoes and cockroaches into your house! intelligent enough?
. Really, you should look into the "intention" in your action. -
Yah haha...
I got to kill it, pest control...
but I also want to reduce the chances of killing...
So far I have been killing ants, no other pest for a time being LOL
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I used to kill mosquitoes... now I just let them be. By the way if you live in landed house, please check if you are breeding mosquitoes... you might just be surprised.
Some interesting things you can try.
From an older post:
Hello, my master Ven. Shen Kai offered a solution to Ants and Cockroaches. He also mentioned about mosquitoes (but I can't remember well for that one). I will summarise a few points below.
Ants - put some Mei2 You2 near their home, they dislike the Mei2 You2 and will definitely move away from their home to somewhere else. To give the ants a sense of direction where to go you may put some food nearby, and they will go and live there. But don't put the food too far as it may be difficult for them to travel that far distance.
Cockroach - get some empty Wu3 Jia1 Pi2 Jiu3 (a type of Chinese traditional beer?). Cockroaches love to have a beer and will all go inside. Then you can throw the cans into a dirty place i.e trash can and let them live in their paradise. I don't know about other beers, you all could experiment yourself.
Mosquitoes - I can remember only he mentioend two ways - burning that mosquito 'incense', or using some kind of electronic device that could make them sterilised and not be able to reproduce babies.
So we do not necessarily need to kill them to get rid of the pests. Wisdom will be of good use.My Master taught - to develope Great Compassion one must start by not harming, and protecting animals no matter how tiny they are.
Even though these animals may be tiny - if you can kill small animals, one day you might kill bigger animals, then killing humans no longer seem a difficult task to do.