
Avoid Intoxicants
A short section from our upcoming book Wisdom in Buddhism Do not take Intoxicants Intoxicants have been with humanity for a very long time; caffeine, tobacco, peyote, alcohol, hallucinogenic mushrooms, cocaine, marijuana, etc. Why is this so? Why have so many intoxicants been used by even our earliest, ancient ancestors? Why has humanity spent so much time and energy seeking them out? It might simply be that (as we will discuss in the Chapter 11.1 The Four Noble Truths) li