--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just wrote this to a friend. Thought I¹d get more mileage of out it and post > it here: > > I had been aware of enlightenment for about a year and seeking it in a > muddled way through drugs. One night I was tripping on LSD for about the > 25th time, alone in my room, and I started reading Zen Flesh, Zen Bones to > steady my mind. The thought struck me like a thunderbolt: "These guys were > really serious, and I'm just screwing around. If I keep this up I'll live a > miserable life. That's it. I'm going to stop taking drugs and learn > Transcendental Meditation and see what happens." I did heroin during my > 15-day "abstinence," figuring that it would be metabolized more quickly than > other drugs. I was living with some people in New Jersey and they drove me > to the George Washington bridge. I walked across, took a subway downtown, > walked across Central Park, and arrived at the TM center on E. 78th street > with no money, no flowers, no fruit, and no handkerchief. I figured that > those things were relative and if these people were really enlightened, they > wouldn't care. They sent me home. Back across the park, uptown on the > subway, walk across the bridge. Got a ride back to Franklin Lakes. That > night I called my father and said, "Dad, I haven't taken drugs in two weeks > and I need $35 to learn meditation. It's going to be the best $35 you've > ever spent on me. He said OK, so someone drove me to the NY State Thruway > and I hitchhiked home, walking across the Tappan Zee Bridge and most of > Westchester. Got home around 4am, got a little sleep, my dad rushed me to > the train station, missed the train, called the TM center, they said take > the next train, got into Grand Central, walked up to 78th street, and got > initiated during a huge thunderstorm. Transcended clearly and had a > wonderful meditation. Haven't missed one since. Within two weeks I had cut > my hair, gotten a job, and gotten back into school. Never took drugs again. > Great story! Thanks for posting this
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