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benefit from each other
"I believe there are ways in which
Buddhism and the psychedelic community might benefit from an open, frank
exchange of ideas, practices, and ethics. For the psychedelic community,
the ethical, disciplined structuring of life, experience, and relationship
provided by thounsands of years of Buddhist communal tradition has much
to offer. This well-developed tradition could infuse meaning and consistency
into isolated, disjointed, and poorly integrated psychedelic experiences.
The wisdom of the psychedelic experience, without the accompanying and
necessary love and compassion cultivated in a daily practice, may otherwise
be frittered away in an excess of narcism and self-indulgence ... However,
dedicated Buddhist practitioners with little success in their meditation,
but well along in moral and intellectual development, might benefit from
a carefully timed, prepared, supervised, and followed-up psychedelic session
to accelerate their practice. Psychedelics, if anything, provide a view
- to one so inclined - can inspire the long hard work requeired to make
that view a living reality." (Rick J. Strassman in 'Tricycle') |