For me, enlightenment means living in the present moment and being free from the ego. Calming that little voice in your head completely and just being free to enjoy your conscious experience. So that got me to thinking... What role has marijuana played in your journey of enlightenment? I am curious as to what those who consider themselves enlightened have to say about the role marijuana has played in their journey of enlightenment. Please include how often you smoke and how long you have been a smoker and if that has had any effect on the journey.
just what you said, it slows my brain down to appreciate the little things in every day life. i find myself sitting down staring at the insides of flowers pretty often, and IMO being completely occupied staring at pieces of nature is enlightening.
My friend said it best last night: "On weed you can perceive your mind." My question to you: What are you perceiving the mind with?
That's the thing, you aren't perceiving anything. You quiet the mind completely and just be conscious of the present moment. Its like you're checking out from your mind but are still alert to whats going on around you.
I'd say it heps me in two ways; it helps me being careless, in the present moment, so I can really get my mind to rest, sometimes in combination with meditation works tremendously. On the other hand, when medicated I like thinking about my problems and how should I solve them the best way and not being depressed or angry at every bad thing that comes in life.
It did the same thing for me and still does. I constantly feel like I'm achieving a new level of "knowing" from every long bong rip I do. I don't hallucinate and see Jesus or Buddha but I feel like my knowledge base becomes expanded allowing me to learn more, faster. Sent from my iPhone using Grasscity Forum
After my own experience of becoming "enlightened." I would say it played no role absolutely. Nothing helped me to discover that timelessness. IMO you can only talk about enlightenment from a standpoint of unenlightenment. Sent from my XT1032 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
You are correct. I've "lost" that connection(only lasted for two days). They call it satori experience? Sent from my XT1032 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Yes, these 'connections' don't seem to last more than a relatively short time, as if they're revealing who we are, but the life we're choosing makes us need to experience in a very different state. Our outer circumstances reflect our inner reality.
I'm so convinced that "that" was the true/ultimate. I pretty much dropped out of "life" fantasizing about that experience. Sent from my XT1032 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Happened in march 2013. Every moment in my life im busy wondering what my response "would have been" or my behavior what would be like. Since there was so much contrast after I dived into that quietness, 2 years later I am still entertaining the belief that I am not enlightened or even the concept as a whole. I feel i actually identify to thoughts and feelings more easily(than before I even read about mind activity/duality Jan 2013) because now I always compare how I feel compared to that vibrational intuitive feeling I felt centered in my chest area. Sent from my XT1032 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
Waste of time. Yet I "hope" that somehow there will be "breakthrough" Sent from my XT1032 using Grasscity Forum mobile app
For me there is a sense of enlightenment. I like to read physics and astronomy but I don't seem to truly appreciate these things as much as when I'm high. In a sense I'm more enlightened of reality as opposed to when I'm high when my mind is cluttered by my own reality i.e. work, school, bills, responsibilities etc.
I'm one of those old hippies that after surviving the Grinder have fallen back to my hippie roots. I know that to describe myself as enlightened would be the direct opposite of being enlightened. but my experiences with the noble weed have given me insights and my own truths that allow peace to settle around me. my experience with mind altering substances started in college in Dayton ,Ohio. Lots of off campus housing and only 2 were involved in reefer madness. hence, there was no signposts or direction for what the experience was meant to be. We enjoyed the experience and the goofs, but two things happened, one being intellectual college students we felt that if we didn't bring something back from each experience it was a waste of time, and secondly that we could trust each other and the only rule necessary was to be kind. everyone could be exactly who they were, and as long as you were not trying to do harm, there would be no judgement, just acceptance. The only other rule was no matter what you were doing , when you heard Desmond was in the marketplace you had to dance. it was the experience with the noble weed that brought these insights and hence the movement. Won't get into all that here, but always felt there was glimmers of enlightenment, as if you could see it through a window. Life intruded and only recently have been able to travel back and spend time in the world that is different. began reading Eastern thought which I had dabbled with back then but with my Western mind could not fully grasp. while reading the Vedas and attempting to mediatate realized that no matter what position I assumed the physical pain in this old beat up body would not endure the time necessary. But while reading Eastern there was a tale of when the gods were first forming the earth ,they stirred the divine heavens with the peak of a mountain top and a drop of heaven fell to earth and there grew the first hemp plant,, interesting. Another tale is that Shiva climbed to the top of a mountain and on his return he brought a present from the gods to humans, wait yep he brought a hemp plant. these stories allowed me to bypass the folded leg shooting pains and float on down the River. would love to hear from you
Welcome to the forum, Paul. You could always find a more comfortable position in which to be still in. Some of us don't do cross-legged, for similar ancient reasons, or need to. It's interesting how those references to the plant, contained in their ancient religious stories, reveal how they saw its purpose as connecting them with the Divine. Yet, no mention of the need to start a war on it and deprive us of its many uses. Funny that.