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Reddit mentions of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 1) (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, the Lamrim Chenmo)
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We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Volume 1) (The Great Treatise on the Stages of the Path, the Lamrim Chenmo). Here are the top ones.
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| Release date | November 2000 |
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It's hard to find references to psychedelics in the literature, and the closest I have come is a reference to Jimson Weed, a delirium.
>Eye disease, jaundice, and so forth, as well as eating datura and so forth, are internal conditions that impair the sensory faculties. ~LRCM v3 p168
I think this relates to psychedelics insofar as most people who take them become enamored with their senses, taking "appearances" for what is "real".
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That said, I've read the Platform Sutra on 10 hits of "mescaline" and entered a spontaneous meditative
revelrybliss -- cross-legged and all -- I entered like a bubble wherein the walls were like these smiling faces: all other Buddhas shining smiling inward on me shining smiling outward.And I came-to in a sitting meditating and drooling all over my lap so lost was I in that vision.
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15 years later and I have read some of the mystic literature that describes "visions" of Buddhas in all directions.
And I wonder not so much that the drug-addled experience was unskillful in its content: the buddhas in all directions -- but rather was it unskillful only insofar as it did not encourage or develop concentration on those images brought up almost prajnapti-like through that Platform translated onto the page, and that Platform of my own unique mind.
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Now when I access that vision of Buddhas all-surrounding: like when I'm doing my big bubble breathing qi-exercises or when I just recall it throughout the day -- I recognize it for what it is: pure appearances, because I am not so enamored (by e.g. a psychedelic or delirium) to mistake the pure appearances for being "reality" innit-self.
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It's really something great to be able to access this vision of Buddhas all-surrounding smiling shining.
It provides like-a solace for that lonely bodhisattva thinking they're the only one with the big-long aim.
Berzin is great. And I love Tsongkhapa. Reading the only full English translation of the Lam Rim (Tsongkhapa's, in fact) right now.