Purpose of Rules and Precepts, by Ajahn Nyanamoli, Hillside Hermitage, Sri Lanka
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- Опубликовано: 11 фев 2025
- What is the purpose of the practice of restraint? What benefits can one get by restraining oneself, and what are the basic precepts that one can keep in order to practice?
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It's interesting how he talks about not using drugs because it alters the mind, yet the majority in the comments talks about taking crazy strong stuff. Makes you think about the change of a religion over time.
Those comments on drugs don't reflect what the teacher is saying. No where does he encourage using drugs. That has nothing to do with the dhamma... Those comments are foolish and completely ignorant.
Rationalizing the indulgence of sensual pleasures perhaps
It's not about the change in religion. The True Dhamma doesn't change, it's akalika (Timeless)
It's about the changes of humans qualities. Good/Skillful qualities are decreasing and Bad/Unskilful qualities are increasing, and this is what we will continue to see
MDMA can provide great insight into the purpose of cultivating the Brahma viharas.
well, there's little doubt that this is what you would *want* to believe, yes.
Absolute nonsense!
I will disagree that alcohol has no practical value for the clarity of the mind. This is an oversimplification of a relative state produced by alcohol.
It is certainly the case that, after a point of development of realization, you become distracted and hindered by alcohol. But there are neurotic and rigid states one can end up in which moderate alcohol consumption can soften and allow to be renegotiated, the effects of which can stay with a person after they're sober again. Something like psilocybin mushrooms is arguably more effective, if also more drastic, for such a purpose, but alcohol has the advantages of a more incremental alteration of the state of mind, and of being legal, available, and highly regulated and so relatively safer.
I will agree that the benefits are quickly outpaced on the path by a determined practice and a healthy sangha, but the absolutism that there is absolutely no practical value is too stark to me.
That kind of useage is still on the level of managing the contents of consciousness and not seeing the principles behind them and moving beyond them. The risks far outweigh the very far fetched benefits you're suggesting in my opinion.
Nonsense. Alcohol is a poison from any perspective.