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Describe Buddhist teaching about how people should treat animals and the environment! ... One of the teachings that Buddhists must follow in order to follow in the foot steps of him, it comes under the eightfold path rule Right action, which has five parts known as five precepts, one of them is not to destroy any form of life and do your best to protect the environment. In this essay I will be looking at the Buddhist teachings on how they treat and respect the environment and animals. ... So any actions Buddhists take should be for good, something that will help others or improve the environment. ...
Ignorance, greed and hatred are the three poisons; greed is caused by craving known as Tanha, which causes suffering better known to Buddhists as Dukkha, therefore all Buddhist believe they should live the middle way, Magga, only taking what they need and do not be selfish and take more to deprive others of things.
Buddhists believe we are part of the environment because they believe in evolution so we evolved from something else which also evolved from something else and so on. On the other hand Christians believe we are separate from the environment, that we stand alone, this is because God created human beings separate from plants, animals and the environment.
Animals
Buddhism believes all life forms are as important as each other; they do not eat any form of meat or purposely destroy any mammals, reptiles, insect, amphibians, trees or plants. ... Buddhist takes the guidelines very seriously they stick to them in everyday life. ... A Buddhist job must involve helping others and not harming animals for example a Buddhist should not work in a slaughter house
or a butcher because this would be harming life.
Approximate Word count = 1423
Approximate Pages = 5.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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