Harmlessness

One of the truly challenging practices for many of us is to live with harmlessness, called “ahimsa” in Sanskrit.  A question that arises is, how do we engage the world actively without causing harm?  I remember someone once saying that the Buddha said it’s impossible not to cause harm in many small ways, simply by living.  We eat other beings as food, we inadvertently step on insects when walking around, we use and then throw away many things throughout the course of our daily lives.  And, when it comes to social action, how do we engage that if we have a commitment to ahimsa?
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