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Why do they call Cannabis "Buddha"?

BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
edited June 2011 in General Banter
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  • compassionate_warriorcompassionate_warrior Veteran
    Who's "they"? I've never heard that term. Why not ask "them", instead of us?
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    i think because people also call it bud and bud is really close to buddha. i don't think there is anymore meaning behind it then that. lol.
  • BeachHouseGuyBeachHouseGuy
    I don't know them anymore lol
  • ThailandTomThailandTom Veteran
    i have heard that term a few times when I was still in the UK, although by few people and never heard it that often.

    I expect it has something to do with what taiyaki suggested, but also that you often get that type of stoner who thinks smoking weed i just, enough so that it fits into buddhism and is zen like...
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    edited June 2011
    it may have something to do with beatnik and new age; which may have been detrimental for the Dharma if it wasn't a gateway to it.
  • ZenshinZenshin Veteran East Midlands UK Veteran
    edited June 2011
    A friend I knew who spent years in India and Thailand told me French people used to call hash and grass Buddha S**t.

    Off topic and on a slightly related note I once went to an an underground trance night called Escape from Samsara, I don't think anyone did while out of it on hash and pills though, but I could be mistaken.
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    I doubt you are.


  • ZenshinZenshin Veteran East Midlands UK Veteran
    Off topic again but slightly related, when I've practiced Samatha and the session seems to have gone well I seem to feel like I've smoked a fatty in the sense that I'm calm and have an amused grin on my face, is this normal? I don't have a teacher so have no-one to ask. Of course this is without the paranoia, disorientation and racing thoughts that became increasingly prevalent after smoking Ganja for a number of years before I quit.
  • ZenshinZenshin Veteran East Midlands UK Veteran
    I apologise if relating the meditative experience to smoking a joint has offended anyone and seems to trivialise meditation, its just the only experience I've ever had that seemed a little similar.
  • seeker242seeker242 Zen Florida, USA Veteran
    Because people smoke it and they think they get some kind of enlightenment from doing that...
  • ZenshinZenshin Veteran East Midlands UK Veteran
    Yeah, well seeker, as a former drug user they are sadly mistaken all it leads to is more dukkha, I realise that now, wish I'd never bothered.
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    "it may have something to do with beatnik"

    I'd bet on that. The beat poets such as jack kerouac smoked marijuana and studied buddhism. Jack wrote several books showing those influences such as the Dharma Bums http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dharma_Bums
  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    "Off topic again but slightly related, when I've practiced Samatha and the session seems to have gone well I seem to feel like I've smoked a fatty in the sense that I'm calm and have an amused grin on my face, is this normal? I don't have a teacher so have no-one to ask. Of course this is without the paranoia, disorientation and racing thoughts that became increasingly prevalent after smoking Ganja for a number of years before I quit."

    No need to be ashamed of your meditation experience. I think the site has to contend with legal issues about pro-drug posts. And many people may be 'drug phobic'. And of course drugs wreck lives so there is good reason for that phobia to some extent.

    In my opinion you should just not get attached to your meditation experience. Just without judgement perceive it very directly.
  • ZenshinZenshin Veteran East Midlands UK Veteran
    @Jeffrey, thanks Jeff, I wasn't trying to get attached to it or chase the experience, sometimes it does that and sometimes it doesn't. Thanks for the tip about trying to perceive it directly.
  • VincenziVincenzi Veteran
    in the words of Bill Hicks: "lets hear the whole f_ story" (it is in youtube under drugs and Bill Hicks).

    even if some drugs are illegal, talking is not a crime.
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