Dog breeder eaten alive by own dogs: KARMA?

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Compton pit bull breeder mauled to death by his own dogs

(KTLA 5) LOS ANGELES, California - Feb. 16, 2024: A chaotic and gruesome scene unfolded in Compton (a ghetto in Los Angeles made famous by Snoop Dog, et. al.) Friday morning after a man who was breeding pit bulls (a similar breed) was mauled to death in his own backyard.

Get in my bag, Taylor, yer preggers!

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD), officials responded to the home on Thorson Ave., just south of Rosecrans Ave., around 7:00 am after a concerned friend visited the property and discovered the man’s mauled body.

"He was feeding the dogs at which point maybe there was an altercation between some of the dogs and [they] ultimately [turned on and] attacked and mauled the victim,” said Michael Gomez with LASD’s Homicide Bureau. KTLA's Chris Wolfe reports on Feb. 16, 2024.

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What kind of karma?

She's as blind as her beloved canine companion. Is it by chance or a life lesson?

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It is popularly believed that karma (intentional action, deed, conduct) means "what comes around goes around." And by this logic, the dog breeder here must have made these impressionable pit bulls vicious, the better to sell them as tough guardians for self-protection.

One sees citizens of South-Central Los Angeles and other parts of the city, such as the Venice Beach Boardwalk, walking vicious looking pit bulls on heavy chains. It's a trope. It's the obverse of West Side females carrying chihuahuas or Shitsus in their purses.

I'll be waiting in the realm of ghosts, Master.

If he did raise them to be vicious killers and they viciously killed him, isn't that karma? It may be karma except for the fact that karma does not work itself out that quickly. Lennon's "Instant Karma" is rare.

What does seem to happen is that we repeat our habitual karma over many lives, and when those deeds catch up with us, ripen and comet to fruition in this life, it may be for something like the thing we're doing now. So people deduce that, "Aha! It must have been that thing he was doing now."

But, in fact, it could, it is much likelier to be something that being did long ago bearing its results. Be nice to animals. Don't eat them. But if you do, will it be a surprise that in the future they will eat you? Not pets, pets rarely eat us, but domesticated livestock when we are reborn on the animal plane, in ghost or hellish realms, or by some good fortune (based on some previous skillful deed) on the human plane again, or wild animals.

IDK Y. I'm driven to eat you alive until you die.

Animals are not here by accident. Animals are not ours to abuse or even to use. They have consciousness, thoughts, feelings, karmic lives, personalities, and futures. The entire section of the Dharma known as the "Rebirth Tales" or Jatakas illustrates how they think and feel, how karma (sowing deeds) bears fruit, how the working out of deeds and results is unimaginably complex but knowable in general terms. Killing humans is worse, particularly moral humans, but killing or inducing (paying butchers) others to kill is also very bad karma.

SUTRA: Let go, Doggy

The Buddha was a Karmavadin: he taught the
importance of deeds (karma) and their results.

There's an amazing Buddhist story, a Jataka Tale, in which a stingy man passes away without having told his wife or eldest son where he buried his treasure. He's still clinging to it in his heart, for all the good money does him as a dog.

The son searches in vain for it because the family needs it to live when he's gone. It comes to pass that he meets the Bodhisattva (the Buddha-to-be), who asks him what the problem is.

The son explains and is advised to feed the dog well and watch where he chooses to go to nap then dig in that spot. He does and finds the stash, becoming a believer in the process:

There is rebirth, there are wise people who know this world and other worlds by their own knowledge-and-vision, there are results of karma (vipaka and phala), there is a life (an afterlife) to come, humans can be reborn as animals based on their actions in this life, and there is something higher to live for than ordinary concerns like making and clinging to worldly riches.

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