What does Buddhist philosophy/scripture say about the killing of pests or parasites?
Question by ORLY on "Buddhist": If my home becomes infested with flees, what would the Buddhist philosophy have me do to make my home livable? This of course will require the death of sentient beings. Also, what about the instinct to swat at biting insects? Do the enlightened allow mosquitoes to continue biting them? Best Answer:
Answer by JORGE N
Unfortunately this dilemma is paramount to anybody practicing the art of living. We try to avoid as much as possible any association with killing of anything. But even as the most erudite have learned, to be so highly evolved as to have a cooperation with all life is not always the reality and one must do something logically insane to solve the problem. A Buddhist that is deep enough into his understanding knows how to avoid.this. Not all of us are there and so the bugs and other creepy crawly lives that go to far into my low domain of material finality will also find that my solutions are not spiritual. I am just not evolved enough.
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