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Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drugs. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Friday, May 02, 2025
Birdhous Books Poetry Reading
On the First Friday of each month, Birdhouse Books in downtown Vancouver, Washington State, hosts an open mic poetry reading as well as featuring particular poets. The poetry session begins at 6:45 pm.
Full Information at Printed Matter March 2025
This bookstore will be closing, and hopefully moving, in the next couple of months. It is located down some steep steps below a coffee shop.
Tonight, the featured reader was Morgan Paige. She was a skilled performer, great voice, engaging poems. She read mostly from her book "Blue Morpho." I was very impressed by her outstanding performance.
Birdhouse Books, 1001 Main St., Vancouver, corner of Evergreen, will host First Friday Poetry Night with Morgan Paige from 7 to 8:30 p.m. May 2, in conjunction with downtown Vancouver’s First Friday Art Walk. Paige is a poet, visual artist, entrepreneur and co-host of Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic Night at Art at the Cave Gallery. Her book of memoir poetry, “Blue Morpho,” details her journey to Costa Rica in 2018.
Saturday, May 06, 2023
Belushi's "Enough is Not Enough"
The Fireplace Records, Chapter 23
Belushi's "Enough is Not Enough"
More Drugs, More Sex, More Money, More Fame, More Euphoria!
Falling into false, evil, perverted, and selfish aims, goals, acts and choices!
Vomit ... Face Yourself! Don't Face Yourself ... Vomit!
Face Yourself and Don't Face Yourself ... Vomit!
A Student's Considerations:
Everyone's Big Problem:
Knowing When to Stop!
Knowing When to Say No!
Moderating and controlling one's greed, desires, wishes, and "needs" for More.
When to embrace moderation, restraint, conservation, simplicity?
Don't wear away your life too fast.
Learn about the Epicurean's view on pleasures and pains and peace of mind.
Limits, limits, limits ... do you understand "limits?"
Don't let others deceive, trick and mislead you.
Some bad habits will grab you by the neck and choke you to death.
If you have extra money, share it with others and good causes.
Your life is a model for others; don't let them down.
Please, Let Enough be Enough!
Stoics, Epicureans, and Buddhists all caution us about taking pleasures,
attaching too much emphasis on pleasures, and preferring peace of
mind, wholesome human functioning, and tranquility.
By Hakuin Ekaku
Related Links, Resources, References
"Whiskey bottles, and brand new carsOak tree you're in my wayThere's too much coke and too much smokeLook what's going on inside you
Ooh that smellCan't you smell that smellOoh that smellThe smell of death surrounds you."
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
- Lynyrd Skynyrd
John Belushi (1949-1982)
Classic Koans: Nothing on drug misuse found yet.
Classic Koans: Nothing on drug misuse found yet.
Refer to my Cloud Hands Blog Posts on the topic of Koans/Dialogues.
Pulling Onions Over 1,043 One-line Sayings by Mike Garofalo
Chinese Chan Buddhist and Taoist Stories and Koans
Fireplaces, Stoves, Campfires, Kitchens, Pots, Firewood
Brief Spiritual Lessons Database Project: Subject Indexes
Subject Index to 1,001 Zen Buddhist Koans
(This is an ongoing project for the Spring-Summer of 2023)
Sparks: Brief Spiritual Lessons and Stories
Matches to Start a Kindling of Insight
May the Light from Your Inner Fireplace Help All Beings
Taoist, Chan Buddhist, Zen Buddhist, Philosophers
Catching Phrases, Inspiring Verses, Koans, Meditations
Indexing, Bibliography, Quotations, Notes, Resources
Research by Michael P. Garofalo
The Fireplace Records
By Michael P. Garofalo
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
Zen and Altered States of Consciousnes
"It is often emphasized that the goal of Zen Buddhism is not some kind of altered states of consciousness. On the contrary, the aim of Zen Buddhism is to become immune to being conditioned into altered states. In this context, furthermore, "altered states" are defined more rigorously than in conventional psychological theory, from the perspective of the pure original mind rather from that of the local parameters of conventional consciousness. Guishan (Isan), another great Chinese Zen master of the Tang dynasty, said, "The mind of people of the Way is straightforward and unartificial, neither ignoring or inclining, with no deceptive errant mind; at all time their perception is normal. There are no further details. Also, don't shut the eyes and ears; as long as the feelings don't stick to things, that is enough."
As suggested by this statement, Zen Buddhism does not teach escapism, chronic withdrawal, or denial of ordinary reality. The late Tang dynasty master Caoshan (Sozan) said, "There is no need to escape anything; just know about it. that's enough. If you try to avoid it, it's still affecting you. Just don't be changed or affected by things, and you will be free."
- Rational Zen: The Mind of Dogen Zengi. 1993, p. 5-
Monday, November 02, 2020
Entheogenic Use of Cannabis
Here is an excerpt from a longer article titled "The Entheogenic Use of Cannabis," from Wikipedia, 2020. The agricultural history of marihuana growing and its uses all around the world is succinctly covered in the article.
"Cannabis has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts[1]—in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2000 BCE. Cannabis has been used by shamanic and pagan cultures to ponder deeply religious and philosophical subjects related to their tribe or society, to achieve a form of enlightenment, to unravel unknown facts and realms of the human mind and subconscious, and also as an aphrodisiac during rituals or orgies.[2] There are several references in Greek mythology to a powerful drug that eliminated anguish and sorrow. Herodotus wrote about early ceremonial practices by the Scythians, thought to have occurred from the 5th to 2nd century BCE. Itinerant Hindu saints have used it in the Indian subcontinent for centuries.[3] Over the last few decades hundreds of archaeological and anthropological items of evidence have come out of Mexican, Mayan and Aztec cultures that suggest cannabis, along with magic mushrooms (psilocybin), peyote (mescaline) and other psychoactive plants were used in cultural shamanic and religious rituals.[2] Mexican-Indian communities occasionally use cannabis in religious ceremonies by leaving bundles of it on church altars to be consumed by the attendees.[4]"
Here was an October 2020 Facebook Post of mine:
I favor the Federal decriminalization of marihuana. In the State of Washington, since 2012, marihuana farms are prospering, tax revenues are growing from pot sales, investors in commodities are benefitting, law enforcement can focus on more important matters, people have more access to new CBD products, tourists are attracted to our state, and some folks can just enjoy a pleasant puff now and then purchased at a local pot shop. The Federal marihuana laws are unnecessary, costly, unjust, and out of date. I don’t smoke or drink now, but others can now purchase and use marihuana in Washington without being treated as a criminal. Many Democrats, Independents, and Libertarians support the Federal descheduling of cannabis.
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