See Socrates (i.e. Plato's dialogue Symposium). And nobody could give a
lecture on enlightenment drunk like Alan Watts (Ted Solomon, Professor Emeritus
of Religious Studies at Iowa State, has a great story about this). And then
there's the king of all recent spiritual alcoholics (unless you count Charlie
Bukowski), Chogyam Trungpa . . .
Unfortunately, however, these gents "died too soon," as Nietzsche used like
to to say.
P.S. David Lynch says Bukowski liked TM because it helped him to enjoy
drinking more.
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> Enlightened folks only witness the effect of alcohol,
> they are never actually drunk. :)
There is actually historical evidence of this.
The Sixth Dalai Lama, a bit of a Tantric, used
to sneak out of the Potala at night and go down
to the red light district of Shol-town and drink
and carouse. There are historical incidents of
him drinking everyone in a tavern under the table,
matching them drink for drink, and then standing
up and creating one of his famous poems. These
song poems were created spontaneously, yet they
are so perfect that they have endured and been sung
by the people of Tibet to this day. Padmasambhava
reputedly had the same siddhi. :-)
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