Absolution

 

I scored this really cool Buddha at the family Christmas gift exchange last weekend.

It was only after taking this photo that there were a dozen and a half shot shells on the kitchen countertop after previously cleaning out a field jacket. 

Oops.  Buddhists abhor hunting.

Giving it some thought it occurred to me that Buddhists in medieval India, China and and Tibet, would have all hunted or fished. They would have had to in order to get by.  Hunting, fishing, agriculture are all practices that would cause suffering and death,

Buddha would understand….