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Buddhism Discussion, AMA 2017-08-08 06:36:00 Post No. 136553796
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Relevant potential topic of discussion (one of many):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandaka
Been practicing Vajrayana Buddhism (unknowingly at the onset) for over ten years.
Here's some things that might be interesting based on what people normally talk about here, broken up into relevant categories.
Willing to talk about whatever else, just a few possible suggestions.
Spoopy stuff I've encountered:
>Numerous significant dream teachings
>Out of bodies, "astral projection", or "mind made body" experiences
>Attacked a couple of times by beings while meditating
>Encountered other amazing stuff
Discipline related:
>Newfound grasp on language previously unattained, ease of expression is now certain. "Lightning heart, thunder speech" immediate conception followed by exact articulation
>Hardening of mind and body (literally made my bones harder)
>Dispassion toward most sensual pursuits
>Extreme tolerance of boredom
May be a fool's errand but I think this thread is worth trying.
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>>136553796
>>Attacked a couple of times by beings while meditating
Congratulations: you're schizophrenic
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>>136553978
Incorrect. Meditation would be considered an altered mental state, wherein any number of visual or auditory sign appearances (hallucinations) can, and frequently do, occur.
That would be like saying having a dream is evidence of schizophrenia.
However, I suspect you're not interested in clarification on that fact.
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>>136553978
Additional reading, likely not for you, but everyone else:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/hecker/wheel263.html#ch9
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What's the stance on drugs? Know many people who does psychedelics and then love Buddhism.
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>>136554966
The fifth precept covers intoxication, but this is a gray area.
From the perspective of attachment, I would say that the less you need the better.
Drugs are often used because people are trying to escape suffering. This is just another form of aversion.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.31.0.nara.html
The issue is heedlessness.
Oftentimes the using of the drug itself, independent of its intoxicating effect, is an act in heedlessness.
"I shouldn't have done that..."
I've personally smoked a lot of marijuana, drank more than I should have and I've done mushrooms once, but I don't think any of that made me a better Buddhist.
If anything it just made me feel important while I took my sweet time improving myself.
Differences may vary based on the practitioner.
Additionally some esoteric practice involves the use of alcohol.
To oversimplify the process, it's the taking of three sips and watching the effects on the mind.
I don't recommend anything like this without a teacher, and even then, it's still not my place to recommend it.
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>>136554966
Intoxication also comes in numerous forms:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an03/an03.038.than.html
I don't believe Alan Watts was a practicing Buddhist, but I do agree with his statement specifically regarding hallucinogens:
>If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen.
At the higher levels of attainment the drugs become useless (again, not Buddhist but completely relevant):
https://www.ramdass.org/ram-dass-gives-maharaji-the-yogi-medicine/
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