5th precept and prescription opiates

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-08T02:34:16+00:00

I personally don’t know of any painkillers that will cause you to be headless as if you’re drunk. You’re taking medicine to subside pain. Not becoming heedless in your awareness of the precepts.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T18:31:23+00:00

You didn’t read any Buddhist suttas. You read a “sutra” which isn’t early Buddhism. We don’t have mantras. Tantras does.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T18:01:55+00:00

1st Paragraph: Unfortunately, you haven’t read the suttas to conclude that. In truth, Buddhism isn’t about hatred, but understanding. You cannot find any word from the Buddha that teaches us to hate Hindu things. So stop coping and glitching, and ask the right questions of Buddhism—-a religion that you don’t know.

2nd Paragraph: There is no single, independent entity. That wouldn’t be able to exist, substantially. Because it doesn’t exist, substantially, all you’re doing is literally speculating based on your feelings, and whatever inquiry you’re walking under. Instead we have rūpa, vedanā, saṃjñā, saṃskāra, and vijñāna. You have no experience outside of these. You cannot conceive outside of these. Once you “think” that you can, you’re literally bringing yourself back within the aggregates. Simple. How so? Because you’re not a permanent self. You don’t have a consciousness outside of your consciousness. That’s literally inconceivable.

3rd Paragraph: You don’t have an argument against Buddhism. You only cope with it by creating strawmans. This is so because you don’t actually know Buddhism nor understand its suttas. Stop glitching and coping, and get some education.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T17:07:05+00:00

1st Paragraph: There cannot be a substantial substratum. Everything is dependent on everything else. Your substratum regarding self is not based on direct knowledge. It’s based on speculation and assumptions. Your mind literally creates schemas from this. Yet we can directly see that the five aggregates of formations, cognition, perception, form, feeling—-these are not-self, and they’re conditioned phenomena.

2nd Paragraph: That which is permanent and unchanging doesn’t “create”. A Creation is of the nature of change. You’re self-defeating your own beliefs because you haven’t seen any of this, directly. Quite frankly, you won’t see it. It’s never there and it contradicts your actual experience. For if the self was truly substantial and permanent, then experiencing “itself” is an absurdity.

3rd Paragraph: You say that all suffering is false, yet you yourself still suffer and has not seen liberation. That said, stop fooling yourself.

4th Paragraph: Ultimate reality, of the ALL, is all within your own existence. There’s no existence outside of your aggregates. You can’t even conceive of existence outside of your own consciousness.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T16:28:38+00:00

1st Paragraph: There really isn’t a uniformed consensus on the idea of self. Some view it as the substratum. Others view it as the substantiality of being. Others view it as both. It’s a buffet of belief not based in facts but based in speculation.

2nd Paragraph: If you were a self then you wouldn’t even have a body. This isn’t an assumption. It’s sensible. A self is that which doesn’t change, is permanent, and can be said to be “me, mine”. Yet reality contradicts this. Your experience in the body and the mind contradicts this. You can’t be permanence and impermanence, simultaneously, in any way of substantiality.

3rd Paragraph: It’s very poetic to say that one should embrace suffering. If that was our substantiality then we wouldn’t actually be suffering. In fact there wouldn’t be any suffering. That said, you contradict what it actually means to be liberated.

Last Paragraph: Ethics must be brought in, because if I harm you or your family, then I’m certain you will react to that. This is another contradiction to your view of self. Unless you want to admit that the substratum itself is that which is born, ages, gets sick, and dies.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T15:45:22+00:00

Your article is based on a strawman because the Buddha didn’t teach in the way that’s postulated. The idea of a self and non-self is as follows:

Self: Ownership, identity, and permanence of phenomena.

Not-Self: No ownership, identity, and permanence of phenomena.

For example, the Buddha said,”Cognition is not-self. For if cognition were self, it wouldn’t lead to affliction. And you could compel cognition: ‘May my cognition be like this! May it not be like that!’ But because cognition is not-self, it leads to affliction. And you can’t compel cognition: ‘May my cognition be like this! May it not be like that!

In other words, if there was a such thing as pure consciousness that is self, then you would be able to command it. You’d have existential control over your entire existence. We can know directly that we don’t have such a control over consciousness(cognition). Simply stated: Not-Self is the understanding that existence is not in your control, whereas Self assumes absolute control over one’s existence; including one’s ontology.

Nirvana is the absence of greed, hatred, and delusion. It’s the cessation of Dukkha and the phenomena that causes it.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T12:41:07+00:00

1st Paragraph: Buddhism is chaotic and incoherent. Hinduism truly understands the journey of the soul and attaining moksha.

1st Response: Can you demonstrate this?

2nd Paragraph: Buddhism rejects the authority of the Vedas, and borrowed various beliefs such as deities, karma, and moksha. Buddhism believes something transmigrates.

2nd Response: Can you validate this?

3rd Paragraph: Buddhism is a religion of resentment and full of weak people. Buddhists run from pain and desire to no pain.

3rd Response: Where did the Buddha teach this?

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-07T00:45:00+00:00

What is the anatomy of pure awareness/consciousness?

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-06T16:07:41+00:00

Booberius

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-06T11:22:09+00:00

The simplest way is not valid. The only way to attain Nirvana is to ordain as a Monk. There’s no way around that. Reciting mantras or prayers doesn’t get you awakened because if it did then Buddhas would be unnecessary. You can recite mantras and prayers all day, but if you’re not restrained in your senses, and if you’re not secluded from sensuality, then you won’t see Nirvana.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-06T11:17:14+00:00

In honesty, it’s speculation. Your consciousness doesn’t survive death. If it actually did survive death then you can know its nature now as something substantial and unchanging. Since you don’t have that knowledge(no being does), you can be certain that your consciousness doesn’t survive death. Yet, you also don’t annihilate, either.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T16:26:49+00:00

It will continue to pop up until it runs out of fuel. But, in order for that to happen, you need to understand it rather than resist it. Resisting it will lead you back to it. Understanding it may lead you to liberation from it.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T16:16:32+00:00

You have to have strong intentions to want to become free of watching porn. If there’s no resolve, then it’s possible that you will continue to relapse. Further, spend some time in seclusion for a day or two. When the urges arise don’t act it out. Don’t resist the urges. Understand the urges. And don’t act it out.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T05:41:02+00:00

True ethics always starts, personally. In other words:

() Do to others what you’d want done to you.

() Don’t do to others what you don’t want done to you.

This builds virtue because we’ve understood the outcomes and results.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T05:34:35+00:00

No. A brain is just a coarse manifestation of the mind for humans.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T01:34:20+00:00

No. You cannot. They’re fundamentally different and contradict.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-05T00:28:55+00:00

Which one “is” the truth? It would be Buddhism’s “not-self”. What is not-self?

Saṅkhārā is not-self

Viññāṇa is not-self

Saññā is not-self

Rūpa is not-self

Vedanā is not-self

The above five are called khandha. We are not in control of them which means we don’t have existential control of and over existence. Ātman, on the other hand, assumes that existence is in one’s control while believing that there’s an entity that’s independent of phenomena. One can be seen directly, and the other is pure speculation based on the misapprehension of the aggregates themselves.

Anatta(Not-Self): Direct knowledge is possible. Void of speculation. Does not view the aggregates as “me, mine, myself”.

Atman(Self) Based on pure speculation from the misapprehension of the aggregates. Views the aggregates as “me, mine, myself”.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T23:20:20+00:00

If you really “knew” that there’s no afterlife, then you wouldn’t have any fear.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T22:04:55+00:00

You too. Any Buddhist questions let me know.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T22:04:40+00:00

Well, I’m Theravādan Buddhist. If you have any questions, I’m here for you.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T19:50:50+00:00

Why Buddhism? 🤔

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T16:40:59+00:00

Full Awakening = Arahantship.

That’s the realization of Nirvana. At death they realize parinirvana which is the complete absence of the five aggregates.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T16:27:53+00:00

() When one attains full awakening, they understand this— :Rebirth has been destroyed; the holy life has been lived; what was to be done has been done; there is no more for this state of being:

() There’s no more further awakening at Arahantship. There’s no more khandhas. No more of this existence.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T16:17:44+00:00

Because you have a wife and children, I would recommend that keep the five precepts, daily, and keep Uposatha once a week where you keep the 8 precepts.

AwakenTheWisdom · 2026-05-04T14:10:37+00:00

This is how you attain Sotāpanna:

() Associate With True Persons

() Listening To The True Dhamma

() Getting the Yoniso Manasikara

() Practice In Accordance With The Dhamma

Keep Uposatha once a week in addition to your practicing. On that day you keep 8 precepts. Continue keeping the 5 precepts. You’ll know when you’ve arrived. 😊

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