I used to love fishing. I would
travel all over my country to fish. I have fished in the irrigation canals of kampung
rice fields, in the ditches of rubber smallholdings, in fish ponds, in large
lakes, in disused mining pools or in the sea. I have done deep-sea fishing,
too, travelling on simple fishing boats but not on yachts. I have never taken
my family on any fishing outings.
However, I took my wife, my son and two daughters to a golf resort which had old mining pools, for fishing some years ago. We stayed in a chalet which was built over water at the edge of an old mining pool. My children used bread as bait while I used live small fish as bait.
My son managed to hook a huge carp while I caught nothing, so in the evening I put out a lot of lines by the edge of the mining pool and from the chalet. Every line had a small fish hooked on its back and hung circling on the surface of the water to attract large predator fish.
I read a book while eagerly waiting to hear the splash of water should a snake-head or other large fish attack the live bait. I waited for quite a while but heard nothing. I only heard my wife and my children telling me that I was being cruel to the small fish. They kept harping on it non-stop and asking me to release them.
Finally, I realized that I was actually being rather cruel so I took in the lines; unhooked the small fish and released them into the water. That was the day that I became imbued with ahimsa - the principle of non-injury to living things. I gave up fishing totally from that day onwards.
ltbs
Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
However, I took my wife, my son and two daughters to a golf resort which had old mining pools, for fishing some years ago. We stayed in a chalet which was built over water at the edge of an old mining pool. My children used bread as bait while I used live small fish as bait.
My son managed to hook a huge carp while I caught nothing, so in the evening I put out a lot of lines by the edge of the mining pool and from the chalet. Every line had a small fish hooked on its back and hung circling on the surface of the water to attract large predator fish.
I read a book while eagerly waiting to hear the splash of water should a snake-head or other large fish attack the live bait. I waited for quite a while but heard nothing. I only heard my wife and my children telling me that I was being cruel to the small fish. They kept harping on it non-stop and asking me to release them.
Finally, I realized that I was actually being rather cruel so I took in the lines; unhooked the small fish and released them into the water. That was the day that I became imbued with ahimsa - the principle of non-injury to living things. I gave up fishing totally from that day onwards.
ltbs
Speak to his heart, and the man becomes suddenly virtuous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
