Opinions on psychedelics ?

cewllguy · 2012-05-26T12:07:05.228494+00:00

Or if they just get a helicopter, they miss the "earth path" altogether.

cewllguy · 1 day

Because following them is "skillful" and not following them is "unskillful". Doing skillful things reduces suffering and doing unskilful things cause it to persist or increase.

cewllguy · 1 day

It is unambiguously clear that drugs and meditation cannot take you to the same place simply by the very nature of the experiences. They are not even in the same league of things. The comparison between the two is entirely spurious and unworthy of examination.

People who say these things about drugs and meditation may have tried drugs but most have never really attempted much meditation. Oh maybe they’ve gone to a handful of yoga classes and done shavasana. Or maybe they’ve been to a Vipassana retreat or even rented a cabin at Tassajara one summer. But they don’t have any real depth of experience with meditation to compare to their drug experiences.

If you want to get fried off your ass, at least have the decency to admit it. Drugs wont show you the truth. Drugs will only show you what it's like to be on drugs. ~Brad Warner

I concur! He is spot on, although a little rough around the edges. :)

Someone once slipped a Zen Master a LSD sugar cube. Afterwards, all the people were very curious as to what he thought about the "psychedelic experience". He said "Well, that was stupid."

manbeardave · 1 day

Consider the consequences here. "LOL, check this guy out, he's got headphones on. What a kook! BRB, dropping in on him". Just sayin. :)

NyghtSpydr · 1 day

I never take keys out into the surf. I have a spare key hidden in one of those magnetic boxes under the car. I just lock the keys in the car and use that when I come back. Or just put the keys up under a wheel or bumper, when no one is looking. The magnetic box thing is better though because no one can see you hiding the key.

yammerant · 1 day

Hatteras goes off bro. It's one of the best places on the whole east coast. Best in the country, very doubtful. Best on the east coast, definitely.

twolf1 · 1 day

Well, the obvious solution is for the government to just take control of these privately owned companies, just so everyone can get equal pay...ಠ_ಠ

secaa23 · 1 day

I'm curious. Does he have any recourse here? Or is he entitled to just a dismissal and that's it? If so, that doesn't seem very fair...Personally, I would now be suing the pants off that bitch! Does he have a case? She got 1.5 mil from it, that should be his money. At the very least, he should be able to have the sex offender status rescinded?

mama_llama · 1 day

If you think you are spinning too much, then I'd say you are spinning too much. However, it's not a matter of what you do or don't do, it's a matter of what you think or don't think. So to answer the question: Can you spin TOO much? It depends entirely on what you think is "too much", which of course will be different with every person. So if you think it's too much, it's too much. If you don't think it's too much, it's not too much.

madcaesar · 1 day

Freaking nice. I was always too lazy to take the seats out. Fuck that!

hedwigian · 1 day

I don't know. I was living paycheck to paycheck at the time. Personally, I think it's easier when you are living paycheck to paycheck as you don't have a lot of other "bad" stuff that you have to get rid of and you just buy new "good" stuff from then on. One does not need a fully stocked pantry to eat vegan IMO.

qp0n · 1 day

I hope it passes and then is declared completely and totally unconstitutional. (how could it not be?) That would set a better precedent for shit like this rather than it not passing.

MadamMudkip · 1 day

Yes, but that is really just anecdotal evidence and not really convincing, at all. There is a reason why a BMI of 30+ is no longer considered "overweight" but instead "Class I Obesity". However, by "overweight" I was was referring to fat deposits, not muscle. A lot of bodybuilders are "overweight" but not really, because it's muscle and not fat deposits. If you have greater than average muscle development, like bodybuilders do, then yea, "overweight" is not unhealthy. An extra 50 lbs of fat deposits, is not healthy.

hedwigian · 1 day

It's a lot of work to completely change the way you cook, stock your pantry, order food, etc

I found it was not as hard as people make it out to be. The full translation took a couple of days at most and was quite easy. The difficulty depends entirely on the individual. Some people go cold turkey and then regress, some people go cold turkey and never do.

brblol · 1 day

Sorry no, they are documentaries too.

brblol · 1 day

Yes, and these documentaries are factually accurate as to what some people believe. Should documentaries about some religions or god be removed too? I don't think so. They are accurate representations of people's beliefs.

MadamMudkip · 1 day

Yes, but you have to admit, 50 lbs overweight isn't healthy, veg or no veg.

MadamMudkip · 1 day

Nice! But you have a lot (or not a lot) to look forward to! I haven't been sick is about 17 years. I don't think it's a coincidence. :)

russianbandit · 1 day

It starts out as "working out" and then becomes "resting" and it often goes back and fourth between the two. So basically you could say it's both.

bobbaphet · 2 days

Personally, I did not see her personal interpretation of metaphorical rebirth in there, all I saw in the article was a denial of reincarnation. But anyway. :)

bobbaphet · 2 days

Ok, just to clarify! Some people seem to believe that reincarnation and rebirth are the same thing. They are not the same thing! Buddhism teaches rebirth, not reincarnation!

In this connection let us come back to the second noble truth, the origin of suffering, rooted in selfish craving and ignorance (tanha and avijja). In order to understand this truth better, it will be necessary to speak of a doctrine which so often is wrongly interpreted and misunderstood. It is the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth (see Chapter II). With regard to this teaching, Buddhism is often accused of self-contradiction. Thus it is said that Buddhism on the one hand denies the existence of the soul, while on the other hand it teaches the transmigration of the soul. Nothing could be more mistaken than this. For Buddhism teaches no transmigration at all. The Buddhist doctrine of rebirth — which is really the same as the law of causality extended to the mental and moral domain — has nothing whatever to do with the brahman doctrine of reincarnation, or transmigration. There exists a fundamental difference between these two doctrines.

According to the brahmanical teaching, there exists a soul independently of the body which, after death, leaves its physical envelope and passes over into a new body, exactly as one might throw off an old garment and put on a new one. Quite otherwise, however, is it with the Buddhist doctrine of rebirth. Buddhism does not recognize in this world any existence of mind apart from matter. All mental phenomena are conditioned through the six organs of sense, and without these they cannot exist. According to Buddhism, mind without matter is an impossibility. And, as we have seen, the mental phenomena, just as all bodily phenomena, are subject to change, and no persisting element, no ego-entity, no soul, is there to be found. But where there is no real unchanging entity, no soul, there one cannot speak of the transmigration of such a thing.

But, as there is nothing that persists from one moment of consciousness to the next, so also no abiding element exists in this ever changing life-process that can pass over from one life to another. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanatiloka/wheel394.html#ch1

Reincarnation is not something the Buddha taught! :)

bobbaphet · 2 days

Ok, now I see the problem. The article is saying that the Buddha taught rebirth, not reincarnation as most people think of reincarnation. Rebirth and reincarnation are quite different. When the person says "what they Buddha didn't teach" they are referring to reincarnation, not rebirth.

bobbaphet · 2 days

The Buddha taught rebirth, not reincarnation. I don't see the issue. The canonical texts specifically deny "transmigration of a soul" AKA reincarnation and they specifically teach "rebirth". There is a problem with that? What exactly is the discrepancy?

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