@samswoora This happens to me often, letting it surface with weed tends to allow the feeling to work itself out of the citta. Try to seperate the aggregates notice your breath, your heart rate, racing thoughts etc. The solidity of the illusion will shortly dissipate. Works for me anyways!
@yacineMTB I also went through this (mainly over it…) I guess the thing to realise is that it’s true. Dependent origination and all that. Burbea lectures and books could help. Also remembering the fact it being true means you can’t / don’t have to , do anything about it.
@5matthewdub Thanks for this! I was interested when I found your post as I was intuitively (dharma informed) using cannabis in a similar way, and encountered a lot of questioning about whether I was simply masochistic 😂 nice to discover a modality centred around it.
@JulesEvans11 Dread and anxiety than even a bad trip, but we have usually have the cultural container in which to fit it. I shudder to think how many fatal MH outcomes occur during or in aftermath of heavy alcohol use.
@JulesEvans11 Than any other factor, people developing schizophrenia later in life is rarer than during adolescence but not unheard of and often blamed anecdotally on drug use, I always question why alcohol is not implicated in such cases more often. A hangover can cause more existential
@algekalipso Have also experienced this combination as being very powerful. I find that I don’t usually experience much bliss while in the actual sauna, more a wish to escape 😂 so a powerful technique can be to use that dukka as the suffering of others portion of maitrī practise.
@lemonaut1 Clipping (especially soft clipping) can actually be a very pleasant experience and one of the reasons analog audio is considered more aesthetically pleasing than digital audio for many people. Not certain about the usefulness of this analogy.
Or is this child caught up in a terrifying and brutal underworld created by arbitrary drug laws. Laws that lead to it being profitable to turn children like this into addicts.