An intoxicant is any external source that draws you deeper into yourself, your beliefs, your egocentrism, and away from direct experience of the real, present moment.
Samsaric life is floating down a river of intoxicants; it’s difficult to go against the flow but it’s the only hope.
– insight from a fellow Zen hermit in my Twitter sangha.
(Photo of Oregon's Rogue River courtesy of Hamad Darwish and Wikimedia Commons.)
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