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[Leo Gura]

The chemical is a jar of farts that you open and huff.

[UnbornTao]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

The chemical is a jar of farts that you open and huff.

Should have said that sooner. 

[aurum]

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Ask: What is an effect? What is a practice? And what is awakening if not an effect, perception, experience, insight, change of state, good idea, or feeling?

I don't see how this relates to the question.

Awakening is a state of consciousness. Practice is anything you do that is aimed at creating that state. We call those specific things practices, because somethings turn out to be more effective than others for awakening.

Sticking your thumb up your butt is not effective at creating the awakened state. This is empirical. Therefore, we don't teach sticking your thumb up your butt for awakening.

What is empirically useful for awakening: meditation, psychedelics, certain kinds of yoga, self-inquiry, etc.

So the question is, do you deny the empiricism of how these practices generate awakening?

You can argue "it's all Consciousness", and that's true. But it's also true that different practices have different levels of effectiveness for awakening within Consciousness.

Psychedelics happen to be a particularly potent dream tool. 

[Eskilon]

58 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

The chemical is a jar of farts that you open and huff.

I imagine a closed room filled with the most potent fart known to man.

Edited 12 hours ago by Eskilon

[Leo Gura]

The jar is like opening the Ark from Raiders of the Lost Ark 

[CARDOZZO]

Fart Awakening ™

[Leo Gura]

4 hours ago, UnbornTao said:

Should have said that sooner. 

I had you at farts?

[Alexop]

Of course, that can be the other possibility. Farts from the father of fat fucks that will stink so bad that you'll basically be brain dead for 3 days, leading to an NDE. Then you'll wake up and tell others you saw 20 bodies laying unconscious and you felt you are all of them at once. Boom Fart Awakening.

[Nemra]

10 hours ago, Leo Gura said:

The chemical is a jar of farts that you open and huff.

I imagined that each time you had an awakening, you stored the farts in a jar. 

The whole fart in the jar is too potent now!