What are the 8 Precepts, which brings Divinity? The Blessed Buddha once said: The habitual praxis of the observance day endowed with eight features brings high reward and blessing, & is of sublime dignity and greatness! And which are these eight features? In this, any Noble Disciple considers within himself: Throughout their life the Arahats avoid all alcoholic drinks, such as beer, wine, and liquor! May I also, this day & night, avoid alcoholic & intoxicating drinks... By that I will follow the track and traits of the perfected Arahats! I shall then have observed the Uposatha observance day perfectly! With this fifth praxis is the observance day enriched. Observed in this very way, the observance day endowed with eight features brings high - even divine - reward & blessing & is of sublime dignity and immense greatness...
The innocent fluid down-the-drain-brain happy-maker: Alcohol!
Addiction to alcohol and drugs is often a need for tranquilization! The side-effects are much worse than the restlessness they cure... Drinking & drugging - though pleasant - leads to lazy carelessness... This lax neglect of the real world problems are often catastrophic! Bodily decay, social isolation and steady fall is inevitable, though often violently denied or actively ignored by the addicted person... Compared to the calm bliss of meditation is drugged sedation banal! Many addicted persons may have experienced the serene bliss of deep meditative states in an earlier life and is thus now prone to search for, & become addicted to a similar chemical calm, which however is a blurred haze lacking the cool clarity of meditation...
Tobacco => Lung-cancer and Marijuana => lazy no-brain zombie!
