One should read this along with Nature Care
Ecstasy
This
idea is not mine.
One
of my friends.
He
enjoys a good hard drink.
I met
him once in front of a liqueur joint and I invited him for a drink.
Sadly
for him it was closed, a Poya Day.
My
plan was to try weaning him off.
Asked
him;
Why
he loves a drink?
He
was well versed with Dhamma than me and he point blankly said, even
hard meditators are addictive to what is called meditative ecstasy
and one can achieve ecstasy much easier with alcohol.
Then
I said even hard drugs give this feeling of ecstasy.
Then
he said they are addictive.
I
retorted even alcohol is addictive.
I
could never wean him off but he made me to analyze this feeling of
ecstasy in there main themes.
1.
Number one, the hard drugs and alcohol.
Even MKUltra was established
to find a ecstasy drug (LSD was the outcome) but later diverted to
remote viewing and training political assassins.
2.
Number two are the modern meditators.
3.
Number three are the extreme sports, like marathon, mountaineering
and even tennis.
The
looking forward for a state of ecstasy by winning the titles drive them.
I
looked at the Jhana states in Abidhamma and the goal in early stages
of meditation is achieving Piti (rapture) and Sukha (Joy).
But
in higher states of Jhana one should drop the addiction to Piti and
Sukha.
The
ultimate goal is equanimity which is very hard state to achieve.
