Buddha used & ate nothing but HEMP for 6 years before his enlightenment

First of all I just want to say this is in no way trying to hurt anyone's beliefs at all, and if i do, i certainly did not mean to. I am not criticizing any religion it's just a perspective. 

BUDDHISTS (Tibet, India, and China)—from the 5th Century B.C.E. on—ritually used cannabis; initiation rites and mystical experiences were (are) common in many Chinese Buddhist Sects. Some Tibetan Buddhists and lamas (teacher) consider cannabis their most holy plant. Many Buddhist traditions, writings, and beliefs indicate that “Siddhartha” (the Buddha) himself, used and ate nothing but hemp and its seeds for six years prior to announcing (discovering) his truths and becoming the Buddha (Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold Path).

Jack Herrer – The Emperor Wears No Clothes

Did you know Buddha used and ate nothing but hemp for 6 years before becoming Buddha? Or some may say The Buddha and Buddhism in general strongly advice against (prohibits, in the case of monks and nuns) the use of any mind-altering substances whatsoever, be it alcohol, drugs or whatever. Buddhist don’t strive for “mystical experiences”, on the contrary all is about seeing the world clearly and unobstructedly as it is. Any kind of mind-altering substance would be a serious obstacle to this.

What do you think?

          Did Buddha really eat nothing but hemp seeds?

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Even the most staunch anti-drug dietitians out there will admit that hemp seeds are one of the planet's single best sources of food, and that a human can live healthily off eating nothing but them. So technically it's very very feasible that Buddha did this - maybe not for years and years and years - but maybe for a substantial amount of time. Either way I'm super curious. Because hemp back then was not the low-THC industrial hemp we have today. If Buddha was eating hemp seeds, he was putting low doses of THC into his system

But tiny amounts of THC are not that, at all. It's a very very different thing and doesn't belong in that category. A 'standard' amount of marijuana IS intoxicating. Just like too much turkey dopes you up, or too much sugar hypes you up, or too much coffee/tea speeds you up. Those are all forms of intoxication.
But in small doses, in a clean system, there's a different effect going on w/ THC. It's like how most people can think better when they have some food in their system (not counting intentional Fasts). The food is changing the sense of perception and ability to process. Same thing with green tea - it has HUGE effects (like cocaine-lite). But it's not a 'drug' or 'intoxicant' in any conventional sense.
I believe some part of the brain functions better when it gets those cannabinoids. We make our own version of them in our brains, so we are already made in our DNA for it, but if our lifestyle is out of whack (whose isn't!) small amounts of THC can function like a MEDICINE. Small amounts of THC may fill in for what we're not making ourselves (due to an imperfect lifestyle in this crazy modern world) SO THAT WE CAN THINK CLEARLY. As in, we're messed up by our lifestyles, and are not thinking or feeling or perceiving Reality clearly. And that bit of THC helps. So, really, it's the opposite of an intoxicant if used that way.




So in this in-between state, a tiny amount of THC can be 'enlightening' rather than 'intoxicating'.

Other medieval Buddhist references have also been noted. “Over the last few decades, university religious studies departments have produced translations of Buddhist tantric texts of unprecedented quality, providing ample material for an examination of psychoactive plant use by Buddhists in Asia” (Parker & Lux, 2008).

“There are several reasons to look to tantra for psychoactive substance use in pre-modern Buddhist Asia. The first and most important is that non-tantric monastic Buddhism is far less tolerant of violations of scriptural precepts than tantric Buddhism. Buddha’s injunction against consuming intoxicants precludes the open use of psychoactive substances by members of the Buddhist monastic establishment. In contrast, tantric Buddhism can allow for, and even applaud, shocking transgressions as a sign that the yogi has transcended ordinary patterns of valuation and behaviour.”” (Parker & Lux, 2008)

In there well researched essay, Psychoactive Plants in Tantric Buddhism; Cannabis and Datura Use in Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhism, researchers Parker and Lux identify references to cannabis, datura and other psychoactive plants in medieval Buddhist Tantric texts such as the Mahākāla Tantra, where the “plants are employed to attain health, wealth, wisdom, and supernatural powers such as seeing underground and flying” (Parker & Lux, 2008).

“These formulas include cannabis in several different forms, including leaves, resin, and other plant material. Given that these cannabis products are included in the “perfect medicine’ formulas of the Mahākāla Tantra, cannabis may perhaps be considered a significant part of this tantric lineage.” (Parker & Lux, 2008).

The Cakrasamvara Tantra also identifies a magico-medical role for cannabis and datura, recording that a mixture of compounds including cannabis will help one “become a yogin who does what he pleases and stays anywhere whatsoever.” Although, like the Tārātantra, the Mahākāla Tantra and the Cakrasamvara Tantra, can by no means be considered mainstream Buddhist texts, and have had limited impact on modern Buddhist traditions. Even at its peak, from about 700-900 AD, well over a millennia after the life of Buddha, medieval Tantric Buddhism was a fringe tradition, practiced by laypersons and not ordained Buddhist monks or nuns (Parker & Lux, 2008). Thus, these medieval Tantric Buddhist references to cannabis, likely give indications of later influences on Buddhism from the religious and cultural milieu that was medieval India, such as devotees of Shiva, who used hemp in an identical way to achieve “ecstasy”, rather than being regarded as actual edicts from Buddha.

what do you think ?






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