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Alcohol and meditaion

bigben202

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Have any of you tried meditation while drunk or buzzed? Pot makes my head a lil too fuzy sometimes to truly connect, but alcohol clears my thoughts. I've never tried meditating after having a drink, I was curious as to whether it could help. I know many people say that putting anything into your body makes it much harder to go deep, if at all, but i can smoke pot pretty well with meditating.
 
Tea is what the Buddhist monks use to stay focused on the breath and not get sleepy. I heard this Buddhist story of a man who was trying to meditate but kept falling asleep. He got so frustrated that he ripped out his eyelids and threw them on the ground. Then the eyelids became seeds and a tea plant sprouted. Lol and that's the true story of where tea comes from... :p

But yeah caffeine should be a good aid for meditation.
 
For me, any alcohol consumption fucks up my spiritual-mood. I haven't meditated for months because I've been busy partying. The two simply don't go together.
 
Changed, I agree. Alcohol just makes me too responsive to sensory stimuli for much introspection, meditation, or prayer. It's a drug best used for enhancing external and worldly pleasures, like good conversation, gaming that doesn't involve danger or keen coordination, eating, seduction, and dancing to music. Alcohol doesn't enhance anything for me that involves great physical or mental effort, or anything introspective like reading a book.
 
bigben202 said:
Have any of you tried meditation while drunk or buzzed? Pot makes my head a lil too fuzy sometimes to truly connect, but alcohol clears my thoughts.
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I can understand how alcohol may slow down your thought process and give the impression that your mind is clear; but theirs an inhibition of concentration which can make meditation quite difficult. I have found tea to be the best aid in meditation.. if any. I've tried meditating under various psychedelics and while i can go quite deep into my mind; i still remain within the realm of thought.. ambient music can also be helpful in creating the atmosphere of allowing yourself to 'let go' and really expand into the vast emptiness of your being.
 
Meditation is beautiful and calming, booze is rude and painful in the morning. Painful through the day as you think about it........
 
The purpose of meditation is to peel back the layers of yourself to bring you closer to Truth. Drinking alcohol adds another layer, affects your perception, mood, and many other things.. basically not a good idea. Meditation should be done sober to protect yourself from psychic influence also. That last point is particular important but often over looked because virutally no one is truely able to see the realm of mind and what lurks there.. many people just repeat techniques and ideas without having proved them first, without knowing what life is present in that domain.
 
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The purpose of meditation is to peel back the layers of yourself to bring you closer to Truth. Drinking alcohol adds another layer, affects your perception, mood, and many other things.. basically not a good idea. Meditation should be done sober to protect yourself from psychic influence also. That last point is particular important but often over looked because virutally no one is truely able to see the realm of mind and what lurks there.. many people just repeat techniques and ideas without having proved them first, without knowing what life is present in that domain.
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Changed, I agree. Alcohol just makes me too responsive to sensory stimuli for much introspection, meditation, or prayer. It's a drug best used for enhancing external and worldly pleasures, like good conversation, gaming that doesn't involve danger or keen coordination, eating, seduction, and dancing to music. Alcohol doesn't enhance anything for me that involves great physical or mental effort, or anything introspective like reading a book.
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Sex is more satisfying as a spiritual thing.
 
I never meditate on drugs or alcohol because I don't want to associate the two. Meditation is a useful tool for me to deal with my drug problems, and if the two became intertwined meditation would no longer work for me.
 
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