ZIG ZAG ZEN. Psychoactivism. In the early '70s at a meeting of students at the Western world's first Buddhist monastery, Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, the agenda had been covered and there we all were sitting around the dining room, enjoying the energy of being together talking, and not wanting to go back to our cabins and to bed.
The tables were pushed back against the walls and 50 or so of us sat on straight-backed wooden chairs loosely arranged in an oval, our faces highlighted by the flickering light from the kerosene lamps. We didn't meet much like that -- maybe once or twice in a ninety-day practice period. Someone broke the silence by saying he'd like to conduct a poll on a topic of interest to him. The director, who was leading the meeting, said "Okay, why not? " "How many people here have taken LSD? " "Do mescaline or psilosibin count? " Then the pollster asked who'd had more than one trip and a number of hands went down.
Library : The Erowid Review » Zig Zag Zen: Buddhism and Psychedelics. The Paisley Gate, by Erik Davis. Terence McKenna - Meditation and Psychedelics.avi. Are psychedelics useful in the practice of Buddhism? High History of Buddhism. Tricycle: The Buddhist Review Fall 1996 Psychedelics & Buddhism A High History of Buddhism by Rick Fields Rick Field's books include How the Swans Came to the Lake (Shambhala Publications), The Code of the Warrior (Harper Collins), Instructions to the Cook, and mostly recently before his death, Fuck You Cancer.
The Psychedelic Experience: LSD and Buddhist Practices – InfoRefuge.com. “Tricycle” magazine described the boom of LSD during the 1960s as blowing the generation gap wide open.
They described it as “the old were appalled while the young were enthralled.” In his manuscript for Flashbacks Leary wrote, “Some students quit school and pilgrimage eastward to study yoga on the Ganges. Not necessarily a bad development from our point of view but understandably upsetting to parents who did not send their kids to Harvard to become Buddhas” (Fields 1). LSD stands for Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. The synthetic hallucinogenic drug was discovered by accident in 1938 by Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman.
Suzuki Roshi Dharma Talks. Suzuki-roshi in the Buddha-hall at City Center for a service or lecture Shunryū Suzuki-rōshi Tassajara Sunday morning, March 1, 1970 Listen to this talk: Suzuki-roshi 70-03-01 (this audio file covers about three-quarters of the transcript below) Actually, because of my bad throat, I don’t speak for people outside, you know.
I came this morning without preparing anything to speak. Psychedelics: Help or Hindrance? On the Buddhism Beat: Studying American Buddhism and Psychedelics — Keep on Truckin’, Allan Badiner! Drugs and Dharma in the 21st Century. In June, please join us at CIIS online in a course entitled, "Buddhism and Psychedelics.
" We will explore the ideas of many Buddhist and psychedelicpioneers, including Robert Aitken, Richard Baker, John Perry Barlow, Stephen Batchelor, David Chadwick, Lama Surya Das, Ram Dass, Erik Davis, Rick Fields, Joan Halifax, Jack Kornfield, and Terence McKenna. Although this is a for-credit course, you do not have to be a full time student at CIIS to join us. For more info email registeronline@ciis.edu. The following article introduces some of the strands of our upcoming explorations... Two great directions in human thought and activity have recently beencoming into sharper focus. Michael stone interview: drugs & buddhism. Photo by Andréa de Keijzer (via Centre of Gravity Flickr stream) The following interview with Michael Stone took place in September 2010, while Michael was teaching at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
It was conducted by Dr. Douglas Osto, who is the programme coordinator of the Religious Studies Programme at Massey University in New Zealand. Douglas is doing research on the intersection of drugs and Buddhism. Shôken Michael Stone is a psychotherapist, yoga teacher and Buddhist teacher. So Michael, you’ve been involved in Buddhism and Yoga for quite some time. Yeah, one way to tell the story would be to start WAY at the beginning with my first introduction to Buddhism. After school I would go and hang out with him. Was his psychosis related to taking LSD or was that something separate? How can I ever know? Meditation and Psychedelics. Meditation and Psychedelics By Vanja Palmers (vanja@bluewin.ch) PDF version of this document Both meditation and psychedelics are close to my heart.
I'm grateful to both of them for having shown me that true essence of the heart, which is the heart of everyone and everything, our ultimate belonging and source of meaning. For starters, psychedelics began disrupting my, up until then, fairly smooth and protected life - enough to be able to ask, for the first time, a deep and urgent question. This kind of questioning goes far beyond words and concepts and leaves nothing untouched.
This is how it was for me, and it does not seem to be so unusual. Volume 4 Number 4 Spring 1994 - is there a proper place for psychedelics in spiritual practice? From the Newsletter of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies MAPS - Volume 4 Number 4 Spring 1994 is there a proper place for psychedelics in spiritual practice?
Igor Kungurtsev, M.D. It may seem that nothing new can be said on this topic after Ram Dass and Ralph Metzner. Yet the theme is vast and has many pros and contras as reflected in one of the recent issues of "Gnosis" magazine. (Winter 93, No 26.)This article is an attempt to look at psychedelics from the point of view of somebody who measures everything by one criteria: will this bring me permanent and stable peace and happiness? Limitations Maybe it's useful first to point out what psychedelics can not give. There is a big difference between actually experiencing that everything is One and intellectually reminding yourself of this truth.