Quote Originally Posted by Phion View Post
What makes you think attempting to meditate while under the effects of psilocybin would make complete appreciation possible? I'm very well aware how beneficial both meditation and the mind warp of psilocybin can be, but when you consider the goal of meditation and juxtapose with "tripping", I think we begin talking about something else altogether, a hybrid discipline if you will.
If you have to attempt to meditate, you're not meditating at all!

It's effortless, in fact you could say that meditation is the complete lack of contrived intention or effort. It is something you are doing all the time, and simply being aware of what you are doing all the time is so simple that many people have become confused.

What a seasoned psychonaut would call going with the flow during a rough acid wave, surrendering to the void during the peak of a 6gram gold cap blowout, letting go the moment the salvia leaves the lungs... that's meditation. Trying to cultivate a blank mind is folly, not meditation... your mind is always a blank slate, that's the whole point! Letting yourself be completely sensitive, completely responsive rather than reactive is the Way. Seeing always through the illusions is the Means.

Really, they give us all of those visualizations and complicated excercises in the hope that one day we will do them without doing them - yielding to the flow, becoming what we dwell upon, and in doing so realizing that it was nothing more than That, all along.


Indeed, the truth has never been preached by the Buddha,
seeing that one has to realize it within oneself.