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- Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:24 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 312
Re: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
Please talk to an expert professional. This site is not a good place for this advice. Exactly. Listen to your doctor. If you have schizophrenia you can't trust your mind too much. "Your doctor" is not the same as "expert professional". There are different doctors & different expert professionals. A...
- Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:19 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
- Replies: 32
- Views: 367
Re: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
Refer to: https://www.dhammawheel.com/viewtopic.php?p=603720#p603720 I went to lengths to make this post in order to underly the extreme similarities between psilocybin and serotonin. Psilocybin is A MEDICINE! It has a hydroxy group on the 4th axis of the hexagonal ring where as serotonin has the hy...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 11:21 pm
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 312
Re: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
Hi, I have been taking clozapine and apsychotic injection which treats schizophrenia for a very long time. I feel like stop taking it because I believe all medicines will have side effects, maybe to my kidneys, to my brain, to my liver, wouldn't it effect them? First time I had schizophrenia was 20...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 10:49 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
- Replies: 32
- Views: 367
Re: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
We cannot know. But we do know for sure is the Buddha prohibited taking such substances. Such karma is far worse than killing a terrorist bee. He prohibited it for monks. For lay people buddhism does not contain commandments, just optional practice instructions. You can take the precepts, or not. T...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 9:45 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: difference between tranquility and drowsiness
- Replies: 14
- Views: 165
Re: difference between tranquility and drowsiness
Passaddhi only comes after Piti. So first you feel rapture in the mind, then the body feels tranquil. The mind is still energetic. Sloth and torpor is the mind feeling tired and sleepy. I’m not disagreeing with you - but what if I suggested that the body feels piti and the mind feels tranquility? W...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 6:08 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Judgement
- Replies: 41
- Views: 436
Re: Judgement
It depends - is the fiction true crime; epic tale; romance novel; comedy; drama; tragedy?
I am a fiction - an epic tale of a man who reached the summit and grew a stately, manly beard afterwards to mark his ubermensch status. I am the reincarnation of Nietzsche!!!
I am a fiction - an epic tale of a man who reached the summit and grew a stately, manly beard afterwards to mark his ubermensch status. I am the reincarnation of Nietzsche!!!
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 5:20 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
- Replies: 32
- Views: 367
Re: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Serotonin-2D-skeletal.svg/800px-Serotonin-2D-skeletal.svg.png Serotonin (naturally found in the brain. Responsible for feeling “happy” see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/P...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:51 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
- Replies: 32
- Views: 367
Re: The Magic of Mushrooms - A Psilocybin Renaissance
There are indications that psilocin (which is what psilocybin breaks down to in the body) has good binding properties at Serotonin receptor sites in the brain. Which is why they can help anxiety and depression in small “micro doses” (like 0.1 grams). I’ve already mentioned this - but the overall “eu...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 4:37 am
- Forum: Wellness, Diet & Fitness
- Topic: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 312
Re: I want to stop taking clozapine and the injection for (Schizophrenia)
Hi, I have been taking clozapine and apsychotic injection which treats schizophrenia for a very long time. I feel like stop taking it because I believe all medicines will have side effects, maybe to my kidneys, to my brain, to my liver, wouldn't it effect them? First time I had schizophrenia was 20...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:46 am
- Forum: Connections to Other Paths
- Topic: Anthropic principle
- Replies: 30
- Views: 295
Re: Anthropic principle
Please define "individual private semantics" and "convention". Your private understanding of these words do not align with what the authorities who write the dictionaries, so your points are irrelevant. In fact from now on, anything you write on this forum is irrelevant if it does not align with wh...
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 2:05 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: Thoughts on becoming a forest hermit?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 144
Re: Thoughts on becoming a forest hermit?
Washington State Hermit in the arboreal rainforests of north western America
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:16 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is “contact” given “space”?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 96
Re: What is “contact” given “space”?
... So, what is the meaning of contact - ... phassa (fr. phusati, to touch): 'sense-impression', contact. The term samphassa is used in compounds, e.g. in the following: '"T'here are 6 classes of sense-impression: visual impression (cakkhu-samphassa), impressions of hearing, smelling, tasting, bodi...
- Sat Jan 23, 2021 7:52 am
- Forum: General Theravāda discussion
- Topic: What is “contact” given “space”?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 96
What is “contact” given “space”?
A little sutta to start 21. "I don't envision a single thing that, when undeveloped, is as unpliant as the mind. The mind, when undeveloped, is unpliant." 22. "I don't envision a single thing that, when developed, is as pliant as the mind. The mind, when developed, is pliant." https://www.accesstoin...
- Fri Jan 22, 2021 4:54 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does pornography leads to rebirth in a lower realm?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2739
Re: Does pornography leads to rebirth in a lower realm?
“Discipline is for the purpose of restraint. Restraint is for the purpose of non-remorse. Non-remorse is for the purpose of joy.” The only thing wrong with wasting your energy on porn is that if you restrain yourself from porn your kamma will improve and you will likely meet someone who you can sha...
- Tue Jan 19, 2021 6:49 am
- Forum: Sīla
- Topic: Does pornography leads to rebirth in a lower realm?
- Replies: 61
- Views: 2739
Re: Does pornography leads to rebirth in a lower realm?
“Discipline is for the purpose of restraint. Restraint is for the purpose of non-remorse. Non-remorse is for the purpose of joy.” The only thing wrong with wasting your energy on porn is that if you restrain yourself from porn your kamma will improve and you will likely meet someone who you can shar...