For my final paper, I will write about drugs, alcohol, and enlightenment. Enlightenment is a spiritual awakening that can oftentimes take a person many years to find. It is also a very vague thing, because it can be taken for thousands of different things, and can be found in many different ways. Enlightenment is individual based, so it means something different to every person. It could be a moral discovery, a personal discovery, a better idea of how the world works, etc. I believe enlightenment mainly is when a person finds their true purpose of being alive, the way they can, in their own eyes, improve the world. Now where do drugs and alcohol affect one’s path to enlightenment? And does it prohibit or inhibit previously made plans?
Like I said earlier, every person is different, therefore, the answer to this question can go either way. If a person is too stressed with life and can’t relax, maybe drugs and/ or alcohol is exactly what the person needs. Perhaps the person is narrow minded. Drugs could theoretically open a person’s mind to enable them to see something they’ve never seen before, or to change their imagination. Another possibility is that a path needs the absence of substances in order for the enabler to realize their own purpose. Either way, drugs and alcohol definitely have a profound impact on many cases of self-enlightenment.
In Buddhism enlightenment, Buddhists often meditate to help them on their way. Drugs or alcohol is not necessarily important for this. The question is: How does meditation help this task? In my opinion, meditation is a way to delve inside oneself by being one with your very cells of the body. Can drugs help in this matter? Certainly, but they are not necessary.
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