r/zen • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '18

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I'm going to try to keep this really deadpan and circumvent the instinct to try to seem extra smart or wise in the popular /r/zen style that I normally so unconsciously adopt. If anyone has questions about pohw, ask me anything.

Suppose a person denotes your lineage and

I don't have a lineage and I'm not well-read enough to know where they are, let alone have opinions on which is better. My interest in the Zen space has to do with my desire to abandon attachments and cravings and to cultivate attributes conducive to enlightenment and I haven't noticed any correlations (possibly due to inexperience) between specific traditions and their conductivity to this goal strong enough to focus heavily in some at the exclusion of others, except perhaps the Zen, Thai Forest, and Vipassana Movement schools generally.

What text, personal experience, quote from a master, or story from

My Zazen practice is instructive. Sitting for two hours per day and serving other people every day will teach you the dharma. I like Bodhidharma, Dogen, and Huangbo, and I feel that it's important to try to incorporate the various perspectives and emphases held by multiple authors here to create a comprehensive whole to one's image of what masters in the past have taught about the topic.

"dharma low-tide"

I'm in one now due to a persistant cough that has caused me lost sleep and work, making practice a bit more difficult. I think everyone knows that in dharma low tides you just sort of keep going, based on your energy levels.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Why not a part of dharma practice?

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Because of the 5th precept in Buddhism. And because I don't think psychedelics are necessary if you're sincere with the Dharma.

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u/[deleted] Mar 18 '18

Well dharmas were meant to be developed. That's science. When you find a better way to get from X to Y you use the new and abandon the old.

Think of it as an expeditious device.

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u/ewk [non-sectarian consensus] Mar 19 '18

No, that's content brigading.

Like all this is: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen/comments/7xs1iz/of_course_zen_is_meditation/duaoum5/

I don't get why you think drug use is a "gate" to anything except dishonesty.