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Can you meditate while drunk?
#19401425 - 01/10/14 10:16 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Just wondering.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19401461 - 01/10/14 10:28 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Personally, no. For me, being drunk involves exceeding my limit of control of faculties of behavior, it's disinhibition and impulsiveness, which granted is amusing, but nothing at all like meditating, which involves enhanced focus of my mind. I guess YMMV by what these terms mean to you.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19401596 - 01/10/14 11:12 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Depends on how drunk and what kind of meditation, really. It's pretty easy to practice mindfulness meditation after a couple drinks if you have a daily practice, but damn near impossible past a certain point.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: hmmn] 1
#19401625 - 01/10/14 11:21 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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Personally, I would not waste my time trying to meditate while drunk. You are better off just doing whatever it is you want to do (within reason), and chances are meditation will not be one of those things.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19401666 - 01/10/14 11:33 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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I've tried it and didn't enjoy it the few times I attempted. I could have been too drunk though
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: cez]
#19401709 - 01/10/14 11:41 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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as long as i'm not too drunk yea, i totally can. in fact its a really good way to maintain composure. i'm a lil tipsy right now actually, and i think meditation helps me keep the mind clear so that the effects become more basic and less debilitating.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19401757 - 01/10/14 11:51 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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I always think I experience a nice headspace for meditation after a couple drinks. But I never meditate in my practical sense while in that state.
Then I get trashed and my ego gets huge and it becomes almost like the opposite of meditation, if there's such a thing.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: cez]
#19401762 - 01/10/14 11:53 PM (10 years, 20 days ago) |
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hard to meditate when the room is going in circles lol
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19403587 - 01/11/14 12:21 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Meditation, probably not. However, some of my most sincere prayers have been while half in the bag.
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actually mediating on my being is a key aspect of even making the decision to drink helps me feel like i'm processing it and not the other way around.
same with smoking weed...like the say if you love i vibration then live it up.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: HardTrippin]
#19403634 - 01/11/14 12:33 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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HardTrippin said: Personally, I would not waste my time trying to meditate while drunk. You are better off just doing whatever it is you want to do (within reason), and chances are meditation will not be one of those things.
Indeed, if you need to meditate while drunk you are doing something wrong with your meditation
Maybe take meditation lessons perhaps
I dont mind getting drunk once in a while, but I wouldnt meditate, I would just have fun
Try taking a long walk in nature, then when you come inside sit and meditate body feels good, mind feels good , then its time for meditation
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: lessismore]
#19403644 - 01/11/14 12:35 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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mio said: Indeed, if you need to meditate while drunk you are doing something wrong with your meditation
not really...anything in life can be part of meditation whether its drinking, watching t.v., literally anything.
btw when i say meditation i don't always mean 'seated meditation' i mean just putting forth effort to stay in the moment, remember the self, etc. i do it pretty much all day but drinking or whatever is almost like a fun challenge towards it.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19404334 - 01/11/14 03:17 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Da2ra said: Just wondering.
Yeah but it usually ends in
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19405864 - 01/11/14 09:14 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Da2ra said: Just wondering.
You can try if you have a licence but wear your seatbelt.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: Icelander]
#19405870 - 01/11/14 09:16 PM (10 years, 19 days ago) |
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Sounds horrible. Alcohol is one of the most boring psychoactive substances.
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Meditating while drunk would defeat the purpose of meditating in the first place. It wouldn't be a beneficial experience methinks. Now and meditation....
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i feel like you guys are underestimating the potential of the alcohol experience...and the power to meditate through virtually any state.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19409869 - 01/12/14 07:50 PM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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I agree with g00ru. Alchole has a very calming affect on me. Of course in excess its not good for shit. But a few drinks, dose calm me down and allow me to let down my guard. The thought process flows more freely.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: tripmob]
#19410484 - 01/12/14 10:41 PM (10 years, 18 days ago) |
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I can meditate very, very deeply while drunk. I recently discovered this, and have only done it once.
Maybe I'm weird
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I dont see how meditating while drunk would "defete the purpose"....could you clarify?
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: tripmob]
#19412667 - 01/13/14 02:27 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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I wonder why drunks "black out" anyways. Meditating while drunk is like trying to transcend the of your life by holding down the off switch.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19412696 - 01/13/14 02:33 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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^ well i'd call it holding down the 'on' switch actually, or trying to, but maybe it amounts to the same thing
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19412712 - 01/13/14 02:37 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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g00ru said: ^ well i'd call it holding down the 'on' switch actually, or trying to, but maybe it amounts to the same thing
like passed out on the on switch
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19412730 - 01/13/14 02:40 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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ya thats probably too drunk to meditate lol. but you can damn well try.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19412751 - 01/13/14 02:45 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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g00ru said: ya thats probably too drunk to meditate lol. but you can damn well try.
Afterwards you size up how enlightened others are at the bar.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19412816 - 01/13/14 03:03 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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Alcohol can make a curse seem a prank.. in the right mood, and it could be dangerous.. like kill someone for the fun of it.. when you do not see what is too wrong with it yourself... remove the reasoning it would actually give them pain.. and bad karma.. there wouldnt really be a reason not to..
I found drinking isnt too smart.. atleast in crowds.. in solitary however.. to focus on the focusing aspect on it... that would be interresting to try..
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19412948 - 01/13/14 03:35 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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CosmicJoke said:
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g00ru said: ya thats probably too drunk to meditate lol. but you can damn well try.
Afterwards you size up how enlightened others are at the bar.
alcohol helps me to treat others as if they are enlightened
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: g00ru]
#19413060 - 01/13/14 04:01 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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g00ru said:
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CosmicJoke said:
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g00ru said: ya thats probably too drunk to meditate lol. but you can damn well try.
Afterwards you size up how enlightened others are at the bar.
alcohol helps me to treat others as if they are enlightened 
How so? In moderate quantities it helps me bond socially with others, social drinking and all. But I have a different idea of what drunk means I guess, drunk is like drinking to the point where you're lurching onto the walls of buildings to balance yourself as you putz your way back home from the bar. So fuckin' unnecessary imo.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19413200 - 01/13/14 04:33 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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ya i really just mean buzzed. and im only joking, ya know, it's a social lubricant
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: s240779]
#19413584 - 01/13/14 06:01 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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Didn't you know drinking while alone = meditational drinking? Nothing like sipping on some good Irish whiskey by yourself with the lights dimmed and musing on the problems and joys in your life. 
See this astute tutorial for further wisdom.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: deCypher]
#19414397 - 01/13/14 08:47 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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deCypher said: Didn't you know drinking while alone = meditational drinking? Nothing like sipping on some good Irish whiskey by yourself with the lights dimmed and musing on the problems and joys in your life. 
See this astute tutorial for further wisdom. 
I do that from time to time, don't need to dress it up with adjectives like meditational though.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: CosmicJoke]
#19414454 - 01/13/14 08:59 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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No need to dress up language with nouns or verbs either; I prefer just guttural moans myself.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: deCypher]
#19414491 - 01/13/14 09:06 PM (10 years, 17 days ago) |
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glossolalia is all the rage
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: deCypher]
#21050037 - 12/31/14 07:41 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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You can mediate while drunk. But I wouldn't do it. It is not recommend it, you won't concentrate as much, at all.
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Re: Can you meditate while drunk? [Re: ShiVersblood]
#21050178 - 12/31/14 08:30 PM (9 years, 30 days ago) |
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alcohol sucks
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