{"id":120482,"date":"2021-11-20T17:37:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=120482"},"modified":"2021-11-20T17:37:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-21T00:37:32","slug":"crabs-for-grabs-a-little-bit-of-advice-to-our-national-cricketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/11\/20\/crabs-for-grabs-a-little-bit-of-advice-to-our-national-cricketers\/","title":{"rendered":"Crabs for Grabs – A little bit of advice to our National Cricketers"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Senaka Weeraratna<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Build your wealth on right living and not through causing\ninjury or destruction to the lives of innocent animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remember that kill and eat is not a Buddhist tenet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Snuffing out the life of a defenseless animal is not\nsporting conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is contrary to all tests of fairness. The animal has\nabsolutely no chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our national cricketers must strive to be good role models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compassion for living beings is part of Sri Lanka’s\nHeritage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These principles are worthy of being borne in mind when our\ntop national cricketers venture into investing in private enterprise. The moral\nsensitivities of their cricket fans deserve to be taken into account when\ninvestment choices are made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an entirely new field called ‘Ethical or Social\nConscious Investment’ which encourage investors to choose to invest in\nactivities that are morally and ethically defensible, are run ethically,\nprovide social benefits and are sensitive to the natural environment and the\nliving creatures that inhabit it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story with a photo in Sunday Times (Dec. 4, 2011)\nentitled ‘ Crabs for Grabs’ showing two former cricket captains looking\ngleefully at a giant crab in a crab shop they had set up at a new food court\nopened in the Fort yesterday, took me aback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/sundaytimes.lk\/111204\/Sports\/spt06.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These crabs are not there for decoration. Very soon the legs\nof these live crabs can be expected to be ripped apart and both the legs and\nthe torso thrown into the boiling pot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recent studies show that both Lobsters and crabs i.e.\ncrustaceans, feel pain and stress. These findings add to growing evidence that\nvirtually all animals can suffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Vyagghapajja-Sutta (AN) the Buddha gave some sensible\nadvice. The Buddha said that before one acts, one should consider the possible\neffects or consequences thus: whether the action will be harmful to oneself or\nothers. If it is damaging to oneself, others or both, such an action should be\nabandoned. Conversely, if it is beneficial to oneself and others, it ought to\nbe committed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Buddhist phraseology one’s “neighbour or others’\nincludes other living beings ( Siyalu Sathwayo). The moral community in\nBuddhism encompasses all living beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Buddha’s advice on Right Livelihood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Significance of the Vyagghapajja-Sutta (AN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Vyagghapajja-sutta (A.N) is the Buddha\u2019s discourse on\nthe Conditions of Welfare expounded for the material or financial and spiritual\ndevelopment of the lay Buddhists. The Buddha admonishes his followers to\npreserve a balanced development between material dimension and the spiritual\ndimension and to construct personal ethical ideal so as to help realize the\nsocial ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As long as a lay Buddhist amasses and expands his or her\nmaterial or financial wealth ethically or righteously through Right Livelihood\n(Samm\u0101 Aj\u012bva)1 , the Moral Law of Action and Reaction (Kamma-Vip\u0101ka Dhamma)\nwill reward the ethical or righteous individual correspondingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right and wrong livelihood<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right Livelihhod are occupations which do not transgress the\nFive Precepts (Pa\u00f1cas\u012blas) and Ten Wholesome Courses of Actions (Dasas\u012blas)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Buddha the five [types of business] to be\nrefrained from are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. selling weapons,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. selling human beings [slavery],<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. selling animals to be killed for food, or the flesh of\nanimals that one has killed oneself,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. selling intoxicants,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. selling poison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Suttanipata: 2:7:27-30 it is said that Kshatriyas and\nself-styled Brahmins and others protected by rank destroyed the repute of their\ncaste and lost their own high status in society because of their involvement in\nthe sin of causing injury to living beings and falling off their virtues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senaka Weeraratna<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Senaka Weeraratna Build your wealth on right living and not through causing injury or destruction to the lives of innocent animals. Remember that kill and eat is not a Buddhist tenet. Snuffing out the life of a defenseless animal is not sporting conduct. It is contrary to all tests of fairness. The animal has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}