Queen Lolo
May 10, 2005
Just when you were exhausted from wondering what a jaywalking chicken has to do with Buddhism, I arrive with a blog that delivers the answer!
It came to me quite by accident, as I was reading the Burton Watson version of The Lotus Sutra in the bathtub tonight. I turned to a chapter where Buddha is telling Manjushri the four rules that a bodhisattvas should abide by if he or she wishes to preach the sutra in the evil age hereafter. It's Chapter 14, page 197...
“They should not closely associate with hazardous amusements, boxing or wrestling, or with actors or others engaged in various kinds of illusionary entertainment, or with chandalas, persons engaged in training pigs, sheep, chickens or dogs.”
So although I'm sure you have compassion for the plight of the Moore's (the owners of the naughty fowl mentioned in my previous blog), you are hereby advised to steer clear if you know what's good for you. (That is, unless they can prove they didn't train that poultry to jaywalk.)