Do Not Kill
Remember the first of the Ten Grave Precepts? “Do not kill.” While this translation is easier for Western people to grasp, the Japanese word “fu” actually means “non” so the correct rendering is “non-killing.” You see Eastern view is that life does not end but changes form or is reborn. The notion of killing or ‘death’ presupposes the substantial reality of that which is killed and that which kills. But in the standpoint of the world of Zen, there are no such separate obje