The difference between a drug dealer and a meditation instructor

[skydog]

Is not HUGE.

 

 

I remember watching a video about a woman who sells LSD saying that she loves what she does and it bring her so much joy because she thinks she makes people happy, and people improve their lives from it.

 

Is someone who sells alchohol/ciggarettes/pharmaceutical pills any better than someone who sells weed or substances which allow people to experiment with their consciousness/wake up.

 

Note- I dont consider addiction in anyway good.

 

But now that I think about alchohol really woke me up, as did peyote..I dont drink anymore but yeh..

[idiot_stimpy]

Both the drug dealer and the meditation instructor may change the persons life.

[thelerner]

Hmnn, are you trying to justify something??

The ease of taking a mind altering drug instead of the discipline of meditation?

[skydog]

Well personally I dont do these things but lets just say I know someone who has smoked weed for many years and experimented with soft drugs Im sure this has woken him up and in his mind weed is a good thing completely harmless. I have an urge to critisize, condemn/judge but this urge is mostly a social conditioning, after all if he has smoked weed for many years and (many spiritual traditions do, then what is so bad about selling it to people is there really such a big difference)

 

Also yesterday I noticed how knee deep in shit most people are due to social conditioning and brainwash, these kind of mind altering substances are looked on so badly largely due to the effect they have on those conditioning and brainwash, and peoples freedom, these things are HATED by slave owners/corporations governments who want to bring as many people to useless wars as possible, if someone struggles to enjoy meditiation etc then I dont mind these things so much....

[spiraltao]

I heard weed burns up yer jing...

[Jetsun]

I always thought I saw reality more clearly when I was stoned, but I doubt that was really the case as it made me so apathetic and lazy, but it does show you a thing or two taking a mind altering drug about the different possibilities of your perception, but unlike meditation it doesn't change anything long term.