Chapter 279: Arguing Over Difficulties
"The monk said that while traversing the forest, he once tried to persuade the wolves on the snowland to switch to eating berries, but during a heavy snowstorm, he also witnessed a mother wolf tear open a young reindeer’s belly to feed her pups.
He once thought to emulate the Buddha by cutting his flesh to feed an eagle or sacrificing himself to nourish a tiger, yet he did not possess such spiritual cultivation. At that moment, he recalled your talk about the food chain. Subsequently, as he journeyed across various lands, he saw brown bears voraciously devouring salmon before hibernation and prairie falcons swooping down without a care for their karma.
All living beings indeed possess Buddha nature, but only humans hold the lamp of wisdom. If we allow murderous intent to run rampant just because wild beasts eat meat, how is that different from casting the flame of civilization into an icy river?"
Jiang Xiao finished speaking, her bright eyes fixing on Nezha. This time she wasn’t here for money, and without the lure of silver, no matter how charming Nezha was, she wouldn’t invite him into her private quarters.
She was here to convey a message for the monk.
Nezha had already thought of how to respond to Wu Xiang Monk’s question. He said, "Just as the prairie has both sheep and predators, if there were no carnivores to control their numbers, the entire grassland would be grazed down to a desert by the sheep, which would then rapidly decrease in number. Compassion doesn’t mean making everything a saint, but ensuring that carnivores eat meat and herbivores eat grass."
"Say that again."
"What?"
Jiang Xiao smiled, "I didn’t remember it."
So Nezha repeated his words slowly. After Jiang Xiao had memorized them, she ran off to relay the message to the monk. When she returned, Nezha was waiting, ready to listen.