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09/10/2018 - It’s the Journey, Not the Trip (Brad Warner)

9/10/2018

Psychedelics aren’t a shortcut for Buddhist practice, because practice involves every moment of life—especially the boring ones.

By Brad Warner SEP 07, 2018

People get mad when I say it’s not right for drugs to be promoted as Buddhism. But that’s OK with me. Sometimes you have to make people mad.

When a recent spate of articles espousing drug use as dharma practice appeared in popular Buddhist magazines, like this one, they required a strong rebuke from someone with the proper credentials to say, “No, it isn’t.” I knew no one else was going to step up. So I did.

I was mean and ornery. I frothed at the mouth. I called people bad names. I said they were charlatans. It was ugly. But I felt like it had to be done. more...

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