[Buddha-l] Buddhism, drug use and LSD

[r.g.morrison]

From: J Tatelman:

: And by practising concentration you get a concentrated deluded mind,
: and by practising mettabhaavanaa you get a profoundly amicable deluded
: mind?
:
: Wasn't there something along those lines in the sudden versus gradual
: enlightenment argument, i.e., that no matter how much you polish the
: stone, you won't get a mirror?

Taking these at face value, aren't these perfect examples of 
essentialist-atmavadic thinking?  And that what the Suddeners saw as the 
anti-dote to 'gradualism' was nothing other than an essentialist-atmavadic 
doctrine?

It's too early in the morning to say much else.

Robert Morrison