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Actually its not even as specific as that. The precept says to ' undertake a rule of training to refrain from that which causes heedlessness...' alcohol is nowhere mentioned.
Well, that's what it's translated into English as.
But, the key -- to me -- is the phrase "that which causes heedlessness".
Some like to say, "Well I won't get drunk (heedless) from just a few". And that may be true.
Of course, take the same philosophy. Not everyone who has sex with a person with AIDS will contract HIV. So would they risk that?
People who want to drink are going to make all kinds of justifications about it. But in the end, they will drink...if they want to. (Which by the way, is fine with me...just do it...don't play with words to justify it).
Typically done over ordinary water to transform it. The mind boggles as to what would happen if said "oṃ bhaiṣajye bhaiṣajye mahābhaiṣajya-samudgate svāhā" 108 times over a glass of red wine.
Well, that's what it's translated into English as.
But, the key -- to me -- is the phrase "that which causes heedlessness".
Some like to say, "Well I won't get drunk (heedless) from just a few". And that may be true.
Of course, take the same philosophy. Not everyone who has sex with a person with AIDS will contract HIV. So would they risk that?
People who want to drink are going to make all kinds of justifications about it. But in the end, they will drink...if they want to. (Which by the way, is fine with me...just do it...don't play with words to justify it).
Justify to whom ? If I have a glass of wine this evening I wont feel the need to justify it to anyone.
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But, the key -- to me -- is the phrase "that which causes heedlessness".
Some like to say, "Well I won't get drunk (heedless) from just a few". And that may be true.
Of course, take the same philosophy. Not everyone who has sex with a person with AIDS will contract HIV. So would they risk that?
People who want to drink are going to make all kinds of justifications about it. But in the end, they will drink...if they want to. (Which by the way, is fine with me...just do it...don't play with words to justify it).
If I have a glass of wine this evening I wont feel the need to justify it to anyone.
I don't have the sense you are trying to play with words to justify it. So that's fine with me...not that it matters.