Most trips involve a 4-5 hour experience, and they all end automatically and on their own. The more you cling to things or try to control what is happening the more paranoia you will feel. The point is to let go.
In a purely Buddhist sense, the experience is very interesting as an exercise of how the ego desperately seeks to assert itself when its perception of reality is altered. Paranoia, delusions, focusing on unimportant details, apprehending things that are not happening in such a way as to improperly see what is actually present (i.e., imposing your interpretation on events such that your actual view changes) and latching onto ungrounded fears.
Letting go, just "being" and letting things take you where they will, helps the experience be positive. If you go in with fears you will hold onto them when in the experience. As Timothy Leary, quoted by John Lennon, said, "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream."
In a purely Buddhist sense, the experience is very interesting as an exercise of how the ego desperately seeks to assert itself when its perception of reality is altered. Paranoia, delusions, focusing on unimportant details, apprehending things that are not happening in such a way as to improperly see what is actually present (i.e., imposing your interpretation on events such that your actual view changes) and latching onto ungrounded fears.
Letting go, just "being" and letting things take you where they will, helps the experience be positive. If you go in with fears you will hold onto them when in the experience. As Timothy Leary, quoted by John Lennon, said, "Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream."
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
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Man. Wish I still had the balls to do this.
- 30/05/2011 06:38:52 PM
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Re: No pain, no gain. *NM*
- 30/05/2011 08:21:25 PM
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Pain is one thing.
- 31/05/2011 01:16:35 AM
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That is precisely the wrong attitude.
- 31/05/2011 02:40:43 AM
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Re: We should probably get stoned sometime and talk about the Tibetan Book of the Dead. *NM*
- 01/06/2011 12:45:37 AM
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Are the girls making out attractive? *NM*
- 30/05/2011 07:50:03 PM
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I totally missed that line first read-through
- 31/05/2011 02:51:32 AM
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Re: Miley Cyrus likes this.
- 30/05/2011 08:19:04 PM
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