Asceticism and the environment.

From: Cross Currents | Date: January 1, 2008| Author: Chapple, Christopher Key | Copyright information

Trees, Robes, Jewels

Mahavira exhorted his disciples more than 2,400 years ago to see the trees in the forest not as a resource to be exploited, but for their beauty and form. 

 
    A monk or a nun, seeing big trees in parks, on hills, or in woods, 
    should not speak of them in this way: 
    "These trees are fit for palaces, gates, houses, benches, bolts, 
    boats, buckets, stools, trays, ploughs, machines, poles, seats, 
    beds, cars, sheds." 
    Consid...

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