[Buddha-l] Buddhism, drug use and LSD

[Alex Powell]

When taking LSD awareness, unobstructed emptiness, remains undisturbed (even with Beer). 
 
Experience is disturbed either positively or negatively according to the individual (and their connections) so it, like anything else, could be an aid on our path.
 
However, actual benefit depends upon universalization (making sense) of the "psychedelic" experience as definitively insightful into the Buddhist path.
 
This is not possible because the Buddhist path is definitive and predictable by nature.
 
I wonder, is going it "alone" on the path (in this way) inherently virtuous?
 
Are some psychedelic experiences more useful than others?
 
What can secular ethics learn from this?
 
Alex Powell, UK

jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:
> Now, to get back to a question undiscussed until now: what about
> 'moderate' drug use? A 'middle way' in mind altering substance use?
> What good reasons are there to approve or decline getting high from a
> Buddhist point of view?
>
> Stefan
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Has there ever been "a" Buddhist point of view on mind bending substances?
One thinks of some of the famous Zen monk poets who drank wine, of some
schools' transmutation of sexual bliss into transcendent bliss, etc. Sex is
also
a mind altering experience, no?
Perhaps this is a question that has to be settled on a personal basis, aside
from the clear fifth precept about refraining from intoxicants (which has
been extended at some point in time to other mind benders)--I don't see how
anything could be more clear than that. But, is there any commentary on the
fifth precept that explores the parameters?
Joanna


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