it's really good to do. hope that more people would try and afterwards do some reflections-- comparing different things they do in their free time.
shoppping or engage in consumeristic activities? really contented as things are being possessed?
why not trying things in other dimensions? how about to offer instead to take?
i think 放生can help people to be more conscious about what they do. if there's a kind will to save, why should there be any intention to hurt or to kill?
gradually, life would get onto a more natural and peaceful path. there mayl be a change in diet, different attitudes to other little and vulnerable lives and many other possible changes in life.
>放生之要，在發心真誠，眼見時，隨意買放，隨處遠放。 it would be even nicer if money is not involved for business and then capturing and hunting would arise. so think twice next time before applying pesticides or stepping on small unwelcomed insects.
