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Philip Kapleau war ein US-amerikanischer Zen-Mönch und Autor.

Philip Kapleau wuchs in einer Arbeiterfamilie auf. Als junger Mann studierte er Jura und arbeitete anschließend mehrere Jahre als Gerichtsreporter in verschiedenen Gerichten Connecticuts. Dies machte er so gut, dass er 1945 zuerst zu einem Haupt-Berichterstatter der Nürnberger Prozesse berufen wurde und im Anschluss daran über die Tokioter Prozesse berichtete.

Die Beschäftigung mit den Gräueltaten des Zweiten Weltkriegs berührte ihn sehr tief und ließ eine tiefe Spiritualität in ihm erwachen, die sein weiteres Leben prägte. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. August 1912 – 6. Mai 2004
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“The Mahayana stresses the ideal of the bodhisattva, who out of boundless compassion dedicates oneself to helping others. A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, "To hell, for that's where help is needed most."”

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Philip Kapleau

Zen: Dawn in the West (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1980), p. 83.

“Anyone familiar with the numerous accounts of the Buddha's extraordinary compassion and reverence for living beings … could never believe that he would be indifferent to the sufferings of domestic animals caused by their slaughter for food.”

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Philip Kapleau

Quelle: To Cherish All Life (1981), pp. 56-57

“To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs, sheep, fowl, and fish, to mention the most common, were not eaten they would not be killed.”

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Philip Kapleau

Quelle: To Cherish All Life (1981), p. 38

“Ultimately the case for shunning animal flesh does not rest on what the Buddha allegedly said or didn't say. What it does rest on is our innate moral goodness, compassion, and pity which, when liberated, lead us to value all forms of life. It is obvious, then, that wilfully to take life, or through the eating of meat indirectly to cause others to kill, runs counter to the deepest instincts of human beings.”

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Philip Kapleau

Quelle: To Cherish All Life (1981), p. 71

“Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals.”

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Philip Kapleau

Quelle: To Cherish All Life (1981), p. 55

“Although one can sympathize with lay persons trying to break their attachment to a diet featuring meat, it is something else again to extend those sympathies to monks, priests, and teachers. What business have these latter to propound the Dharma when they possess neither the perception nor compassion to see the connection between meat eating and the killing of harmless animals, and when they lack the self-discipline to put Buddhist compassion before the pleasures of their palates? What right have they to wear the Buddha's robes when they won't or can't honor the bodhisattvic vows they recite daily to liberate all beings?”

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Philip Kapleau

Quelle: To Cherish All Life (1981), p. 74

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