The following are excerpts from teachings offered by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo on Facebook and twitter:
Jetsunma’s Tweet: We have all types of karma. We have killed – ever killed a mosquito?
Facebook User: Are you saying that killing a mosquito is wrong?
Jetsunma’s response: Killing is always wrong but cannot always be avoided.
Facebook User: Why is killing a mosquito wrong? Does it have a soul? I understand the part about killing being wrong and that it cannot always be avoided.
Jetsunma’s response: We don’t think of “souls” in Buddhism. We feel that all sentient beings have the same primordial nature – all sentient beings are made of the same stuff.
A twitter teaching from the same day:
As I get older I have come to realize how precious life is and how little we do to live long. We don’t think of kindness or charity or that other sentient beings are suffering just like yoy and I. How sad! We don’t understand the connection at all. We think things just happen to us. Ha! Like we had nothing to do with this at all. Good grief!
