21-11-2021, 07:01 PM
(21-11-2021, 06:32 PM)Sticw Wrote: All living things can feel pain, plants included.
All living things have consciousness, desires, needs and are programmed to multiple.
I am not sure if plants can feel pain but in Buddhism they do not have Buddha nature. Hence, no matter how long, they will never be Buddhas. This is different from sentient beings who are actually future Buddhas.