Sun Radiance: Thought Transformation, 1 August 1989, part 3

Okay. What’s suicide? No. Wrong. Just in general suicide, are you talking about the specific example?

So, suicide is a negative action, but it doesn’t have all the components of a complete negative action of killing. Simply from the point of view that in order to have a complete negative action of killing it must be the object killed must die before you, and in this case it doesn’t happen. So therefore it is a negative action but it’s not a complete negative action. It doesn’t have all the components of it, of a complete negative action. So, a complete negative action of killing must involve killing someone other than you.

It said it was a negative action but it’s not a complete negative action. What would you like to know? So it’s never proper to kill yourself, to commit suicide. Even the case for example when the invasion of Chinese, of Tibet by the Chinese, that as the prospects of being tortured and being oppressed for a very long time due to that, considering that possibility many Tibetans, they committed suicide. And also, since having committed suicide, that the Chinese would not commit the negative action of hurting this particular person.

Even then, it’s not proper. It’s still a negative negative action. Action. You have a question?