What Would Buddha Inject? Buddhist Objections to Mandatory Childhood Immunization

By Harold Zo
Published by New Paradigm Press
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Published: June 10, 2012
Words: 2,440 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476317908

Short description

Whatever the debatable benefits of our national childhood immunization program, the Karmic cost in ongoing, unrepentant, intentionally-inflicted animal suffering is mindbogglingly, exponentially higher. From a vegetarian Buddhist perspective, childhood immunization represents a spiritual abomination of unimaginable proportions. … A free full chapter excerpt from "Zo-Zen" by Harold Zo.

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Whatever the debatable benefits of our national childhood immunization program may be, the Karmic cost in ongoing, unrepentant, intentionally-inflicted animal suffering, mutilation and death is mindbogglingly, exponentially higher. From a vegetarian Buddhist perspective, childhood immunization represents a spiritual abomination of unimaginable proportions. I couldn’t believe what I had unknowingly permitted to be injected into my son's body in infancy. Needless to say, we never returned to the County Health Department, or the mandatory vaccination schedule. So there I stood before the school registrar’s desk. There was no shot record to provide. My son was not "up to date" on his immunizations, and by everything I hold sacred, he was not going to “catch up” on my watch. I felt like a deer in the woods who has just heard the rustle of a hunter’s boot in dry leaves... A free full chapter excerpt from "Zo-Zen: Zen Buddhist Essays and Insights from the Small Town Big Mind of Ha.. (Read more) Whatever the debatable benefits of our national childhood immunization program may be, the Karmic cost in ongoing, unrepentant, intentionally-inflicted animal suffering, mutilation and death is mindbogglingly, exponentially higher. From a vegetarian Buddhist perspective, childhood immunization represents a spiritual abomination of unimaginable proportions. I couldn’t believe what I had unknowingly permitted to be injected into my son's body in infancy. Needless to say, we never returned to the County Health Department, or the mandatory vaccination schedule. So there I stood before the school registrar’s desk. There was no shot record to provide. My son was not "up to date" on his immunizations, and by everything I hold sacred, he was not going to “catch up” on my watch. I felt like a deer in the woods who has just heard the rustle of a hunter’s boot in dry leaves... A free full chapter excerpt from "Zo-Zen: Zen Buddhist Essays and Insights from the Small Town Big Mind of Harold Zo."
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buddhism, zen, immunization, buddhist, zen buddhism, religious freedom, religious objection

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