Can you be non-violent?

There's a squirrel running across the road. I swerve to avoid it.

The person in the passenger seat laughs at me. Earlier that week we had just practiced ways to kill a human being.

I'm no Jain. The moments I choose Ahimsa are a little different.

Ahimsa is commonly translated as non-violence.

For me, it's 'not-thrusting-to-create-wounds-that-cause-fear'.

Everything has a cost, that is karma.

A $7 latte on my bank statement is one thing. A $7 latte on my bank statement that I have no knowledge of is quite another.

Let our harms be intended. Let them have a purpose.