Dear David Newman:
Remembering, many prior life meditators fall for drugs...
Drugs can provide a heavy kind of anaesthesized calm
only of the body, which may badly substitute for real
calm tranquility of the mind (samatha)...
The inevitable side-effects of all drugs & booze is the
complete loss of mental focus, clearity & perspicuity..!!,
which leads not to spiritual progress, but simple worldly
neglect... Drugs is a false way downward, not to mental
development, but to lack mindfulness, unbrushed teeth,
unpayed bills, undone obligations & other bad failures!
Naturally, all who are addicted to drugs, argue the exact
opposite! Drug use is simple breaking of the 5th precept
established by the Buddha:
" I hereby accept the training rule of avoiding all Alcohol & Drugs.
As long as this life lasts..."
Friendship is the Greatest ...
Bhikkhu Samahita, Sri Lanka.
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