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In Reply to: You are awash in erroneous assumptions. posted by J.R. on June 17, 2004 at 13:17:10:
You admitted doing peyote over 100 times. What else have you experimented with...don't answer, Big Brother could be watching. My simple point is this: you need something outside of your self to bring some kind of experience to validate your notion of spirituality. I say this use of peyote, and whatever else you may experiment with, is a crutch of dependency and a lie to your true higher self. You are being deceived by a deceiver. You are opening doors, maybe, but can you close them if the place they lead to is not what you expected or hoped for? You are 64 and it is very unusual for someone your age to continue in a practice abandoned by most in their teens. Someone is watching out for you if you aren't burned out at this stage. You will never convince me that peyote is the road to enlightenment.
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If I thought it was the road to enlightenment, I'd be enlightened.
And that's not even my goal. Freedom is what I'm looking for. I go
throught the doors I open and I try not to have any expectations. I
check things out and don't worry about closing the door. What is
looking out for me is that I am on a path with heart, and it's a lot
of hard work, and it takes a long time, not like the quicky Zazen
fix. When did you give up? Regards,
I haven't given anything up except altered states. They are just temporary distractions IMHO. You don't understand zen if your take on it is that it is quick. That doesn't even come close. Zen requires constant adjustment to conscious thought processes, or rather the correction of stinking thinking. Zazen is just one process. Mindfulness...now that is where the rubber meets the road, and I couldn't begin to claim I have mastered this. I'm not really a Buddhist, just a distant admirer of the Masters. The one Master I admire most is a Jewish nonconformist guy who turned the world on its ear a couple thousand years ago.
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