Buddha on LSD?

Question

DIVINE realizations of deep meanings...
realizations of inner truths...
Connection and feeling as one with nature and everything in it...
seeing great beauty and purity in everything...

this sounds like a gnarly acid trip.
and also Buddha's reaching of nirvana.

hmmm.
coincidence?

ok... whataver... sorry i cant put nirvana into words.

haa.

lets focus on the feeling one with nature thing. how bout that?

Answer 1

These ideas sound a lot like Timothy Leary's work.
"The Politics of Ecstacy" - "Your Brain is God" - "The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead"......

I must second Cosmicdrifter, though. LSD can be a key tool in helping a closed mind open, but it should not be used as a crutch. LSD can shatter an individual's world, so it is something to be held in the highest regard and respect.

However, consciousness-expanding drugs are not the only way to reach different states of consciousness, and are usually hard to integrate into one's world view because they are fragmented experiences and temporary.

Answer 2

No absolutely not. In fact it is considered just another illussionary experience... generally speaking.

I remember a friend who had done drugs getting clean and then training to become a Zen Buddist monk. He relayed to me that he had had a number of discussions about the mind with the Sunim on just this kind of thing you are refering to.

The answer was very clear that regardless of whether the drug experience even got you remotely close to enlightenment, that it is drug dependent and therefore not a liberation the way enlightenment is meant to be! You have to get there all on your own and there is no way around it if you want the real thing!

Get with the program guys!

Peace!

Oh yes! The one with nature thing! Well we are one with nature the illussion is thinking that we are not. So have a little humility and go take a deep breath of fresh air, be mindful of everything in your life to the smallest detail and you will see it.

Answer 3

The ONLY difference between these two is the universe of understanding that LSD must not give you. This understanding must be learnt and studied so it gains life in your soul and so allows the soul to gain life by understanding it. Wisdom is what you need to seek and it obviously has not been attained in this trip as wisdom comes from understanding experience, tell me do you understand "HOW" you came to have this "thought" experience? You have experienced something special and it has prompted you to question it, no doubt it was a remarkable experience, if you care to understand you must seek the answers!

Answer 4

Your education on Buddhism is lacking...he was not on LSD.
Why? Because LSD is ACID made of chemicals...man made.
Other drugs are made from nature...plants, weed, etc.
Mr. Morihri Ueshiba taught me and many to hug trees to feel their energy...was we on ACID or DRUGS? NO we were in meditation taught by the masters, to connect our feelings to nature and everything in it.
Please get an education first on the subjects you are asking.
Peace, may Buddha's light of enlightenment, shine on you.....

Answer 5

To know oneself as one really is, is much better than an LSD trip. The trouble with LSD is that it is temporary and it blows the door open, in doing so it also blows up a lot behind the door during the trip. It can be usefull however in opening closed minds. ~ : )

Answer 6

Like a flame that has been blown out
by a strong wind goes to rest
and cannot be defined,
just so the sage who is freed
from name and body goes to rest
and cannot be defined.

For him who has gone to rest
there is no measure by means
of which one could describe him;
that is not for him.
When all religions have gone,
all signs of recognition have also gone.

Answer 7

It is called gods light energy fool. Don't mock things you are ignorant of. Have a little humility. Hope you don't get hit by lightening.or any of God great energies for blaspheming a great soul.

Answer 8

Bub....I did LSD alot in my youth. Yes, you think reality is outside of your sphere of knowledge, but.... It is all a pipe dream. Reality is where you stand, sober, and with open eyes, ears and heart. Let the drug dreamz go. Do not deny reality with the world and replace with your own

Answer 9

"Divine realizations" according to whom? Apparently you don't understand Buddhism very well.

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