Any
Intoxication Weakens and Corrupts the Mind!
Being Drunk and/or
Drugged is always being Blurred and Blinded...
While drunk/drugged can one know what is best for oneself? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
know what is best for others? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
ever be respected by others? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
be truly upright and respectable? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
do a really good and valuable job? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one enjoy the result of a good job? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one meditate well and
be absorbed? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one study, reflect and reason well? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one remember, and recollect well? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one make any progress spiritually? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
make progress professionally? NO!
While drunk/drugged can one
make any progress personally? NO!
Is there any advantage or good at all in being
drunk/drugged? NO!
Is being just
a little drunk/drugged just
little evil or a tiny good? NO!
Is there any valid excuse for not going completely clean
and clear?
NO!
Will those who regurgitates this medicine ever be healed at all?
NO!
Is social and economic fall certain by being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is the sadness of a spoiled life sure by
being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is bodily and mental decay severe by
being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is one made into an addicted zombie by
being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is one's behaviour often sub-human by
being drunk/drugged? YES!
Is the future kammic effect of
inebriation insanity/stupidity? YES!
Is being drunk and or drugged thus
quite self-destructive? YES!
Is being drunk and or drugged thus
indeed quite irrational? YES!
Is being drunk and drugged
literally the way leading to Hell? YES!
Is complete abstinence from all intoxication a
VICTORY? YES!
Who is the Winner? Are you and all other beings
you contact! YES! :-)
The 5th precept laid
down by the Buddha for all was therefore:
Suramerayamajja pamadatthana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami.
I hereby accept the training-rule of avoiding
all drinks and drugs causing carelessness.
The Blessed Buddha further explained this avoidance by:
Abandoning the use of intoxicants, the disciple of the Noble Ones
abstains
from taking intoxicants. Doing so, he gives freedom from
danger,
freedom
from animosity, freedom from harm to limitless
numbers of
beings. In giving
freedom from danger, freedom from
animosity, freedom
from oppression to
limitless numbers of beings,
he gains a share in limitless
freedom from danger,
freedom from
animosity, and from oppression.
This is the fifth gift, the 5th
great gift, original, long-standing, traditional, ancient, totally unadulterated,
unadulterated from the beginning, that is not open
to any suspicion,
that never
will be open to any suspicion, and is recognized by every contemplative
and recluse.
And this is the 8th reward
of merit, reward of skilfulness, nourishment of real
happiness, human as
divine,
resulting in happiness, leading to heaven, leading to
what is
desirable and attractive, leading
to what is pleasurable and appealing.
Leading to the Welfare and to Happiness of all
living Beings... Yeah Keep Clean!
More on this common self-destructive behaviour:
Drinking and Drugging:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Curing_Lethargy_and_Laziness.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Optimal_Observance_V.htm
Blurred means
Blinded! Join the Noble Path and the crucial Recovery!
Start your own 12 steps
Buddhist recovery group.
Heal yourself by helping others. NEVER GIVE UP:
Buddhist 12 Steps Drug/Booze Recovery:
https://the12stepbuddhist.com/
https://www.sasana.org/Buddhist12steps.shtml
https://www.amazon.com/12-Steps-Buddhas-Path-Buddha/dp/0861712811
https://realisticrecovery.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/a-buddhists-non-theist-12-steps/
https://www.amazon.com/12-Step-Buddhist-Enhance-Recovery-Addiction/dp/1582702233
