See Socrates (i.e. Plato's dialogue Symposium). And nobody could give a lecture on enlightenment drunk like Alan Watts (Ted Solomon, Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Iowa State, has a great story about this). And then there's the king of all recent spiritual alcoholics (unless you count Charlie Bukowski), Chogyam Trungpa . . . Unfortunately, however, these gents "died too soon," as Nietzsche used like to to say. P.S. David Lynch says Bukowski liked TM because it helped him to enjoy drinking more.
TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Enlightened folks only witness the effect of alcohol, > they are never actually drunk. :) There is actually historical evidence of this. The Sixth Dalai Lama, a bit of a Tantric, used to sneak out of the Potala at night and go down to the red light district of Shol-town and drink and carouse. There are historical incidents of him drinking everyone in a tavern under the table, matching them drink for drink, and then standing up and creating one of his famous poems. These song poems were created spontaneously, yet they are so perfect that they have endured and been sung by the people of Tibet to this day. Padmasambhava reputedly had the same siddhi. :-) --------------------------------- Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business.