Psychedelic magic mushrooms in 11 mins

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(StoneAgeMan) Why we got it wrong: Fly Agaric 101: The Magical Mushroom (Amanita muscaria)

Why we got it wrong: Fly Agaric 101: The Magical Mushroom (Amanita muscaria)

 

(StoneAgeMan) This is the Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), aka the mushroom from Super Mario Brothers. It’s famous, yet I think the general consensus is that no one should ever eat it, never. That’s probably the safest thing to do, but it has been used for thousands of years by our ancestors.

CONTENTS

• 0:00 - Intro
• 1:03 - The legend of Santa Claus and Amanita urine
• 2:21 - Mushroom hunt
• 2:52 - Mushroom time-lapses
• 2:42 - When are changes updated?
• 3:06 - Amanita and mycorrhizal associations
• 3:52 - Identification of Amanita muscaria.
• 5:17 - Amanita chemistry
• 6:20 - Decarboxylation
• 7:07 - What the mushroom does
• 8:11 - Conclusions

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• SHAMAN: Shaman Claus: A Siberian Santa Story
• Amanita muscaria vs. psilocybin effects: experience, duration, dosage (Cheech & Chong's Global)

Amanita, Fliegenpilz (wiki)

Ever wonder, "Is Amanita muscaria psychedelic?" The short answer is yes. Also known as the Fly agaric mushroom, it has psychoactive properties that can alter perception and mood. This intriguing fungus interacts with brain and body to produce unique effects. The answer about it being psychedelic is more nuanced.

What is a safe dosage for first-time users? Are there risks or side effects associated with this mysterious entheogen. Guidance on preparing for an experience that is responsible use that understands the potential legal implications is also covered.

What is it, where does it come from?

Dude, it's totally grove if you prep set 'n setting

Amanita is often recognizable by its vibrant red cap with white spots and is a mushroom species native to temperate and boreal regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

This fascinating fungus has a rich history tied to nature and culture because it is known for its psychoactive properties.

How does it affect brain and body?

Aware Project: rethinking psychedelics

It contains two primary active compounds, ibotenic acid and muscimol. These chemicals interact with the brain's neurotransmitters, specifically targeting the GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) receptors. This interaction can lead to various effects, including changes in perception, mood, and consciousness. Some may experience euphoria, a dream-like state, or heightened sensory experiences. More: magicdoze.com

• Is Amanita muscaria psychedelic? Unveiling the mysteries of this LEGAL Fly agaric (shamanic) mushroom (Magic Doze)

(Dark Mode) Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom: proper preparation and trip report

Psychedelic elephants: animals get high

The drunkard said, "They're here, they're there, pink elephants [are] everywhere!"

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Oh no, it's not just humans. Elephants and other animals SEEK out psychedelics. (Think of the magic mushroom-loving reindeer of the Arctic circle, who not only search for Amanita muscaria or Fly agaric hallucinogenic mushrooms in the snow but also lick "yellow" snow in the hopes that the reindeer responsible for the deposit found some, just as shamans filter the strong entheogenic compounds in magic mushrooms for their followers and patients). There are humans and animals in Nepal, Turkey, and the Hindu Kush region who feast on hallucinogenic "mad honey," derived from rhododendron (grayanotoxins) and other plants collected by bees.

Don't get high, Kids. Meditate to see visions.

Mushrooms, contrary to what many might think, are not plants. They are a whole different kingdom, the fungi studied by mycologists. But there are plenty of plants -- like the components of Ayahuasca of the Amazon Jungle/Rainforest, which is comprised of three plant pharmacy ingredients, strangely, not the same three -- that are entheogens. There is Syrian Rue, there are alkaloids galore in rainforests, and animals are looking:

• Even in the Buddha's time, among the Sakas (Shakyas, Indo-Scythians), there was a "magical" entheogenic/psychedelic drug known in Vedic Sanskrit as soma (haoma in the Avestan language of the Indo-Iranians/Aryans west of ancient Jambudvipa). No one knows what exactly was in this concoction, but it seems to have included powerful local cannabis, kumis, and the mysterious psychedelic known as blue lotus. Did wandering ascetics (sramanas, shamans) partake of it for divine visions or did warrior princes imbibe it for guidance and/or to go berserk in battle like Berserkers?

Hallucinogenic plants

Oh no, Dumbo, it's bad trip time! Set and setting!

Deep within the heart of Africa, a captivating spectacle unfolds — one that challenges our understanding of animal behavior and the natural world.

Elephants, the majestic titans of the savanna (grasslands), have been observed engaging in a curious ritual: seeking out and consuming plants known for their psychoactive properties.

So that's why they stink so much: detoxing

[This is in addition to elephants' penchant to visit fallen fruit that has fermented and the ground (by the natural activity of yeasts and bacteria) and gorge themselves on it until they are as drunk as skunks, if skunks could get drunk, which they can if enough fruit falls on the ground to pique their interest or if Uncle Kelly leaves his glass of the "water of life" (Gaelic fuisce, whisky) out overnight after passing out and they come searching for Seamus the Dog's food bowl for freebies.]

This behavior, both fascinating and enigmatic, raises intriguing questions about the motivations and experiences of these gentle giants.

As we delve into this phenomenon, we uncover a tapestry of ecological interactions, evolutionary adaptations, and mysterious quests for altered states of consciousness. [Wow, suddenly AI started writing this intro for MSN?] Let's read on: The Psychedelic Elephants of Africa: How Some Animals Seek Out Hallucinogenic Plants

Does Wisdom Quarterly advocate (entheogenic) drug use?

Experimentation beyond science?

Certainly not. Drugs are bad and go against the fourth of the Five Precepts incumbents on Buddhists. If any thing (drug, food, behavior) occasions heedlessness (the violating of precepts or engaging in any of the Ten Courses of Unwholesome Conduct), it should and must be avoided and abstained from. Who in their right mind would take something that destroyed all one's virtue. One often hears of people who say, "I would never [fill in the blank with any bad thing]...unless I were drunk or high." Therefore, one should not get drunk or high because to do so is to engage in harmful karma that will come back to one, and it won't matter that one was high, as when drunk drivers get imprisoned just for driving drunk even though they didn't hit anyone yet. And when they do hit someone, it will not have been "on purpose" (with intention), so how can they be held liable? They can. They are. If one murders or steals while high, it does not matter to judges, juries, or the general public that the perpetrator excuses the behavior by saying, "Yeah, but I was high." Stay sober. Praise sobriety. Study plants:

• Study magic mushrooms, ecstasy, drugs at CIIS

Oh, much better, trippin' on reality

Get high on life or the ecstatic meditations (jhanas), with samadhi in mind, opening the third eye (dibba cakkhu), stimulating the pineal gland in natural and nonharmful ways. Try pranayama to alter consciousness in a way that does not destroy one. There's a fine line between character-building and soul-destroying (even though "soul" is not really the best word to use as it has misleading connotations) experiences. Drugs are a kind of Russian roulette. Find a shaman, a guide, a discipline before f'ing around and finding out. Will kids find out? Don't they always? It is an explorer's function to go on a quest. So let it be a spiritual quest of mind-expanding "soul" searching that brings about the end of suffering by heightening compassion and wisdom. That's what Wisdom Quarterly is saying. Read Dr. Ammon Hillman's The Chemical Muse to see just how long this has been going on in Western culture. Then read John Allegro's banned magic mushroom text about the real meaning of Christianity. Antihero Homer Simpson is the perfect example of what not to do, besotted on the couch being programmed by TV's hypnotic influence, accomplishing nothing.

• DiscoverWildScience via MSN.com, April 8, 2025; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

American ship lands on Moon? (video)

Ooh, look, there we are in the foreground! (Who's taking the picture?) And the Pale Blue Dot!

Lunar lander Blue Ghost touches down

(ABC News) Texas startup Firefly Aerospace made history today (Sunday, March 2, 2025) when it allegedly landed its spacecraft, Blue Ghost, on the lunar surface with a flawless touchdown. ABC News reports.

Devas are 'shining ones,' celestial deities

We didn't get to our Moon (Luna, Chandra, Soma) the first time, says Eric Dubay (as seen on bitchute.com), so it's doubtful the U.S. had a lander there now.

But that's what the mainstream media is feeding us. So let's suck on this story with lip smacks and baby faces.

Budai (not Buddha) points at Moon

Ooh, ahh, we're so great, we're Number 1! Take that, Russia! Eat our shorts, China! Have a seat, India! Don't even think it, Japan.

Private contractor Firefly Aerospace out of Texas (what, not Elon Musk Global Corp?) has done NASA the favor of placing a lunar lander on the hollow celestial body that is Earth's own satellite. Or so they say.

NASA Moon and Mars Hoaxes

Eric Dubay (bitchute.com): NASA Moon and Mars Landing Hoaxes

• ABC News, March 2, 2025; Eric Dubay (ericdubay.com); Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Kombucha Mushroom People

LAMS (lamushrooms.org)

Los Angeles tries. We're the center of the world, if not the entire solar system. So everything that is is biggest and best here, Hollywood adjacent. Beverly Hills builds houses, Brentwood estates, UCLA graduates students, USC football stars, and LAMS (Los Angeles Mycological Society) forages wild mushrooms more than any other place in America, except apparently for Telluride, Colorado's Mushroom Festival. If only we had more forests, marshland, and old-growth forests.

The famous Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria)

Instead, we're in a Mediterranean climate zone that looks in every way like a desert with sand dunes and precious little rain most of the time. Last weekend, LAMS held the annual Wild Mushroom Fair at LA's Arboretum. Maybe someday someone will film it, whereas six months ago, at the height of a warm summer high in the mountains, Telluride outdid the City of Angels by celebrating a class of magic mushrooms called psilocybe, which contain two "magical" (entheogenic) substances known as psilocybin and psilocin.

Inside the biggest (Magical) Mushroom Festival in North America | Telluride Mushroom Festival

We may have to go Down Under to get to this year's Mushroom Valley Festival 2025

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We are sentient beings who talk

(North Spore) Join Lou from North Spore as he explores the biggest, oldest, and most magical mushroom festival in North America. From foraging with Mycologist Alan Rockefeller in the picturesque San Juan Mountains, to a private lunch with Chef Graham Steinruck, to participating in the wildest and wackiest mushroom parade in the world, this video has something for everyone. Special thanks to Telluride Mushroom Festival (tellurideinstitute.org). Visit: northspore.com. Use this link to get 10% off tickets events.humanitix.com.

The Kombucha Mushroom

What inspired System of a Down? "Sugar"

The SCOBY produces the fizzy drink kombucha

Kombucha (the bubbly drink made of a symbiotic mix of probiotic bacteria and yeast) is not a mushroom, but it sure looks like one sitting atop a sugary drink of polyphenol-rich tea. The tea provides the protein to form of symbiotic community of beneficial organisms, and the sugar feeds them. The community is called the SCOBY (symbiotic community of bacteria and yeast). What does it want? More SUGAR! It will keep growing, leaving traces of "mother" (the rust found in unfiltered apple cider vinegar), creating new generations. Like a UFO, it drops discs of new SCOBYs.

• Surā (सुरा): Indigenous beer beverage prepared with sugars from cereals or jaggery (palm sugar) and other spices that are naturally fermented. It is beneficial for the emaciated and those suffering from obstruction in urine, piles, alleviates vata (wind imbalance) and useful in anemia. Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद) is the branch of ancient Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy, and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millennium BC and its literature is commonly written in Sanskrit (Sura, Shura, Surā, Sūra, Śūra, Sūrā)

Who would drink alcohol-free moonshine?

How it organizes itself and produces useful compounds like hyaluronic acid all while making a great tasting drink, technically a kind of "beer" or sura (brew) that tastes more like musky wine if fruit -- cherry, grape, pomegranate, and so on -- juices are added for their sugar content, phytonutrients, and resveratrol. Anyone who gets into it tends to become one of the "mushroom people," enthusiastically singing its praises and enjoying better gut health. Someone must've given Serj a sip at some time for him to sing the band's first hit: "The Kombucha mushroom people, sitting around all day / Who can believe you? Who can believe you? / Let your mother pray Sugar / Sugar..." More: Genius Lyrics

How the world appears through mushroom eyes

Picking wild mushrooms in Los Angeles

CHAPTERS

• 00:00 - Intro
• 02:10 - Foraging with Alan Rockefeller
• 12:35 - Exploring the Telluride Mushroom Fest!
• 14:35 - Magic Mushrooms: Potency Testing (Noah Novello) and Psychedelic Retreats (Irene Dubin)
• 16:26 - Medicinal mushrooms with Fruiting Bodies (Roger Holden) and PACT Outdoor mycoremediation products (Noah Schum)
• 18:12 - Cooking/lunch with forager and Chef Graham Steinruck
• 28:59 - Telluride Mushroom Festival Parade
• 31:47 - Outro

Don't drink kombucha, Kids, like SOAD once did

Full interview with Gabriela D'Elia: northspore.com/blogs. Full interview with Alan Rockefeller: northspore.com/blogs. Check out more fungi festivities here: northspore.com/pages/events.

• Kate Roelke (svparalus), Alan Rockefeller (instagram.com/alan_rockefeller), Mandie Quark (instagram.com/mandie_quark), Graham Steinruck (instagram.com/instantgraham), Noah Novello (Friday Ventures, fridayventures.net), Irene Dubin (Blue Portal, blueportalretreat.com), Gary Gilbert Roger Holden (Fruiting Bodies, fruitingbodies.co), Noah Schum (PACT Outdoors, pactoutdoors.com), Shroomski Magazine (shroomski.com)
• NOTE: North Spore does not condone the use/or distribution of illegal substances. This video is for educational purposes only.

Music from Epidemic Sound & Artlist Stock video from Artlist.

Slamming with System of a Down, circa 1997, Whisky A Go Go, Hollywood

System plays "Sugar" at Whisky (and Honey, Marmalade, Sweet Pee)

• System of a Down; North Spore, July 24, 2024; System of Down; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation) (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Indigenous Europeans are white Asians?

Sami peoples are the Indigenous groups of Scandinavia like those in Sweden and Finland

Shaman Santa is nice to a deaf Sami girl named "Sami"

Scandinavian shroom shamans were beloved figures.

Rugged Indian Americans Indigenous Scandinavians and their teepees tents, 1900 (wiki)

Sami ("Laplander") life might not be possible without reindeer, just as Indians needed buffalo.

Who invented our European-American version of "Christmas"? Sami shamans in Siberia-Scandinavia-Arctic Circle (North Pole) -- with their reindeer obsession, big red coat and boots, long beard, stocking distribution (used as bags over the fireplace to dry psychoactive Fly agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushrooms the shaman distributes to families living in yurts by entering through the "chimney" (open rooftop access where fire smoke is ventilated out by design. And even the reindeer get so high they "fly" by partaking of the magical mushrooms and the urine of the shaman or head reindeer, characteristically licking the snow for more of the molecule. Sounds unbelievable, but it's all true. The mushroom has a symbiotic relationship with pine trees, under which they grow, popping up as red and white wrapped "gifts." So we imitate the ritual by wrapping nice things in red and white, the color of peppermint canes, and placing them under the conifer pines tree we drag in for loved ones to find in the morning. It's like an Easter egg (mushroom vulva) hunt in winter snow with the helper Elves or mechanicals cybernauts speak of seeing and interacting with. It's starting to feel a lot like winter solstice time!

Ho ho ho, says the Shaman, gifts for everyone!

One of the least known ethnic groups of Europe. Who are they?

The Magic Mushroom Christmas Theory of those old Santa Claus Siberian and Sami shamans

Scandinavian Sami family, Finland, 1936

(Science) Aug. 18, 2024: Girl football? Forest spirits? Living in tents with advice of female shamans? Sápmi is the Sámi (\sammy\) people’s own name for their traditional territory. The Sámi people are the Indigenous people of the northern part of the Scandinavian Peninsula and large parts of the Kola Peninsula. They live in what some used to call "Lapland" in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. There is no reliable information on the population of the Sámi people; they are, however, estimated to number between 50,000-100,000. The Sami – an ethnic group who are known as the last indigenous people of Europe (or Laplandia).

#sami #indigenouspeople #saamisaami #nomads #swastika #aryan #lake #Eurasians #Asians #blended

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Connection between Caucasians and Asians? Genetics of Sami, Ainu, and Siberians

(Masaman) July 23, 2017: Could the Scandinavian Sami, white Japanese Ainu, and other Indigenous Siberian peoples be the missing link between modern East Asian and European populations?

Let's go through the genome, DNA, and haplogroups of many of the various peoples of Northern Asia. The natives of Siberia are a very interesting group to learn about, not very well known by the general public.

Let's touch on the fact that Hungarians, Finns, and Estonians all speak languages that come from outside the borders of Europe. Thoughts on the Sami, Ainu, and the native peoples of Siberia? Comment

• Map of Russian conquest of Siberia by Vologda Mapping: The Russian Conquest of Siberia: Ever...

Meeting (mushroom) spirits for X-mas

How could Shaman'ta be so nice?

Shaman Santa is nice to a deaf Sami girl named "Sami"

Scandinavian shroom shamans were beloved figures.

Fly Agaric and its ties with Christmas | Amanita Muscaria Mushroom

How can we spread Western culture/Xmas cheer?

(Danni in the Wild) Dec. 19, 2023: Did our much-loved Christmas celebrations derive from a psychedelic trip brought on by the Amanita muscaria mushroom? Where did the idea of "Father Christmas" come from? Do reindeer really learn to "fly" by eating magic mushrooms that get them high? Why does Santa Claus come down the chimney of all places? And are "machine elves" real?

• Wonder of Xmas in Los Angeles (Aldik Home)

Join me, Danni in the Wild, as I explore the parallels between traditional shamanic winter solstice celebrations from the Arctic communities of the Kamchadals and Koryaks of Siberia, and the traditional Christmas celebrations we practice today in Europe and the Americas. (Feliz Navidad, Latin America! We strongly advise people not to trip without a competent minder and sitter, like a shaman).

Sources and suggested further reading:

• Mushrooms and Mankind by James Arthur
• Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy by Clark Heinrich
• Pharmacia.pensoft.net/article...
• The Mushroom and the Cross by John M. Allegro

Foraging Wild Foods and Medicinal Mushrooms October | UK

These red-and-white gifts just popped up under the tree overnight. I wonder what's in them.

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(Danni in the Wild) Oct. 26, 2023: Join me, Danni in the Wild, for a late fall forage in a local woodland pasture. It is a beautiful day, and there are lots of wild edible berries, plants, and fungi to find -- some of the mushrooms being medicinal, too! Please see notes on species below before mushroom hunting.

• Acorns (oak seeds) contain high amounts of tannins which can cause stomachaches, so they must first be prepared (soaked, washed, rewashed, and rinsed over and over) before consuming or ground into flour;
• Rosehips (future rosebuds) contain itchy hairs that should be removed before consumption;
• Golden spindles are nontoxic but not usually recommended for consumption due to their tough texture and bitter flavor;
• Amanita muscaria (Fly agaric) contains psychoactive ibotenic acid and the hallucinogen muscimol, so failure to prepare it properly for its intended use may result in freaking out, vomiting, dizziness, vertigo, anxiety, and lots of other unpleasant feelings!
• WARNING: Remember never to eat any wild food -- be it plant, fruit, or fungi -- unless you are 100% certain of its identity. Always cross check resources to be 200% sure. Always do research before taking herbs internally, especially if pregnant, have severe allergies, or have a weakened immune system.
• PLEASE: Remember to take only what is needed from places of abundance (and never more than 10% of any plant) so as to always leave plenty for the other wildlife.
• To follow along for more foraging and forest garden content, join me over on Instagram, TikTok, and Threads: @danniinthewild; subscribe to channel for more mushroom content, or follow me on Instagram, Threads, and TikTok ‪@danniinthewild‬ Thanks for watching! :)
• Danni in the Wild; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

That time the Buddha ate mushrooms 🍄

Culinary truffles are dangerous for those who forage without sufficient experience and care.

Muscimol: The legal "magic mushroom"

The Buddha sitting on Fly agaric

(Into the Shadows) Discover the fascinating world of Amanita muscaria or Fly agaric, the entheogenic, psychedelic, psychoactive mushroom of Siberian shamans (like Buddhist and pre-Buddhist shramanas) and their culture's all-important flying (high) reindeer (the real "Santa Claus" figures who bring the harvest to each family, who then dry them in stockings over the warm fireplace, after entering the yurts through the rooftop chimneys, among the indigenous Scandinavian Sami people). From ancient legends to its surprising effects of alkaloids like muscimol or pantherine, explore the science behind this iconic mushroom. Learn how it works and its potential real-world uses.

The Psychedelic Sangha (psychedelicsangha.org)

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Cunda Sutra: Cunda the silversmith

Initial translation by Ven. Thanissaro; edited and expanded by Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Thus have I heard. On one occasion, while the Buddha was wandering in the land of the Mallans with a large community of monastics, he arrived at Pāvā. He rested near the city in the mango grove of Cunda the silversmith.

Cunda the silversmith heard, "The Blessed One, they say, while wandering in the land of the Mallans with a large community of monastics and reaching Pāvā, is staying near Pāvā in my mango grove."

So Cunda went to the Blessed One, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side. As he was sitting there, the Buddha instructed, urged, roused, and encouraged him with a Dhamma talk on the Teaching.

Woo, look at all the colors and patterns!

Then the Buddha said to Cunda — after instructing, urging, rousing, and encouraging him — "Venerable sir, may the Blessed One accept a meal from me tomorrow, together with the community of monastics."

The Blessed One accepted in silence. Then Cunda, understanding the Blessed One had accepted the offer, rose from his seat, bowed to the Blessed One, circumambulated him, respectfully keeping him to his right, and departed.

Then, at the end of the night, after having exquisite hard and soft food, including a large amount of "pig's delight" [1] prepared in his home, he announced the time to the Blessed One:

• 1. The Commentary notes a wide range of opinions on what "pig's delight" means. The opinion given in the Mahā Aṭṭhakathā, the primary source for the Commentary we now have, is that is tender slaughtered pork. (This would be a very strange offering to make to (spiritual aspirants) wandering ascetics like the Buddha and Sangha in largely vegetarian proto-India. It more likely means what pigs delight in eating, such as soft bamboo shoots or truffle mushrooms that pigs love, or a special elixir for vigor and health). Given that the Indian subcontinent has long had a history of applying fanciful names to its foods and elixirs, it is only possible to say what is likely more than literal and therefore hard to say with absolute certainty what the Buddha ate for his last meal. This was his last meal.
• One reason it seems impossible that anyone would serve the Buddha and the Sangha a meal of slaughtered flesh is that their custom was never to accept an offering of meat killed to serve to them. So much was this the custom that the Buddha laid down a monastic disciplinary rule instituting this practice. If anyone should see, hear, or so much as suspect that anyone has killed an animal [to serve it], it is not allowable to accept, for in doing so one would be tacitly approving of the deed of killing animals. Anyone following the Dharma would not ask for, praise, allow, or accept killing animals. For the most part, Buddhist monks and nuns might accept anything, but they would not eat it or approve of its offering.
• “Three Purities” and “Pig’s Delight” | Great Middle Way
• The Buddha, seeing the danger in this truffle dish, this meal of toxic mushrooms, this elixir, did not consume it in ignorance. But seeing it, having completed his mission of establishing the Dharma and Sangha in the world, he willingly accepted it and protected everyone else from it.
• Later he would instruct others to comfort Cunda not to have any remorse for offering him his final meal, a meal as meritorious as the one offered to a meditator before awakening, as the lady Sugata had offered the wandering ascetic Siddhartha, giving him the energy that enabled him to become enlightened.

"Venerable sir, it is time; the meal is ready." Then early in the morning, the Buddha dressed and, carrying his alms bowl and saffron cloak, walked barefoot (as was customary) together with his community of monastics to Cunda's home.

Arriving, he sat on the seat prepared for him. And seated, he said: "Cunda, only serve me the pig's delight you have had prepared. For the community of monastics, provide them with the hard and soft food you have had prepared."

What tasty food do swine love? Savory truffles

Saying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Cunda served the Blessed One the pig's delight and the community of monastics the other food he had had prepared.

Then the Blessed One explained, "Cunda, bury the remainder of the pig's delight in the ground in a pit. I do not perceive anyone in the world -- with its devas, māras, and brahmas (shining ones, destroyers, and supremos), with all its people, wandering ascetics, and Brahmin priests, its royals and commoners -- able to digest it [in whom, when ingested, it would go to a healthy change] except for the Wayfarer (Tathāgata)."

Soma? Entheogenic plant elixirs called amrita

Saying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Cunda buried the remaining pig's delight in the ground in a pit. Then he returned to the Buddha, bowed, and sat respectfully to one side.

Sitting there, the Blessed One -- after instructing, urging, rousing, and encouraging him with a Dhamma talk -- rose from his seat and departed.

Then in the Blessed One, after having eaten the meal Cunda offered him, there arose a severe [gastrointestinal] illness accompanied by [the passing of] blood, with intense and deadly pains.

But the Blessed One endured it mindfully and alert [vigilant and clearly comprehending], rather than being struck down by it.

The Blessed One addressed his attendant: "Ānanda, let us go to Kusinarā."

"As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Ānanda answered.

I have heard that, after eating Cunda the Silversmith's

offering, the Enlightened One was touched by an illness

fierce and deadly.

After eating it, a fierce sickness arose in the Teacher.

After being purged of it, the Blessed One said,

"Let us go to the city of Kusinarā" [2].

Then the Blessed One, veering off the road,

Came to a certain tree and said:

"Ānanda, please arrange my outer robe in four folds.

I am now tired and wish to rest."

Replying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Ānanda

Arranged the cloak in four folds.

The Blessed One sat down on the seat made ready.

Seated, he said: "Ānanda, please bring me water.

I am thirsty and wish to drink."

• 2. This style of narrative in which prose passages alternate with verses restating what was already narrated is called campū. This sutra is one of the few instances of this type of narrative in the Pali canon. Another is the Kuṇāla Jātaka (J 5.416-456). There are also some Vedic examples of this form in the Brāhmaṇas, texts that apparently date from around the same time as the Pali language canon. When the incidents presented in this discourse were included in DN 16, these alternating narrative verses were included. Aside from the Buddha's conversation with Pukkusa the Mallan (see Note 4), these are the only incidents that DN 16 narrates in this style. This suggests that perhaps the version of the narrative given here was composed first as a separate piece then later incorporated into DN 16.

Mushrooms clear the forest of spent leaves.

When this was said, Ven. Ānanda said to the Buddha: "Venerable sir, just now a large number (500) of carts crossed. The shallow river, cut by the wheels, is disturbed and muddy.

"But the river Kukuṭa is nearby, with pristine and pleasing waters, cool and limpid waters [3], with restful and refreshing banks. There the Blessed One may drink and cool his limbs."

But a second time, the Blessed One asked, "Ānanda, please bring me water, for I am thirsty and will drink."

Did this meal lead to a Psychedelic Experience?

But a second time, Ven. Ānanda replied as before.

A third time, the Blessed One made his request. Then Ven. Ānanda, taking a bowl, went to the riverside. The shallow river, cut by wheels, that had been disturbed and was flowing muddy, on his approach suddenly began to flow clear, pristine, and undisturbed.

The thought occurred to him, "How amazing and astounding! How great the power and might of the Wayfarer! This shallow river, cut by wheels, was flowing muddy and disturbed. But on my approach, it began to flow clear, pristine, and undisturbed!"

Gathering water in the bowl, he returned to the Blessed One and told him. "Drink this water, O Blessed One! Drink this water, O Well-Gone-One!" Then the Buddha drank [4].

• 4. At this point in the narrative, DN 16 inserts the account of the Buddha's encounter with Pukkusa the Mallan. There is no way of knowing which version of the events is earlier, as the focus of this discourse is not on telling everything that happened to the Buddha on his final day, but on recounting all the events related to Cunda the Silversmith's meal offering.

Let's rest here a while, having slaked our thirst.

Then the Blessed One, together with his community of monastics, the Sangha, wandered toward the river Kukuṭa. Arriving, they went down to drink and bathe then coming out went to a mango grove.

Arriving, the Buddha said: "Cundaka, please arrange my outer robe in four folds, for I am tired and wish to lie down."

Replying, "As you wish, venerable sir," Ven. Cundaka arranged the cloak in four folds. The Blessed One arranged himself on his right side, adopting the lion's posture, placing one foot on top of the other, mindful, alert, and determining when he would get up. Ven. Cundaka sat in front of him.

The Awakened One went to the little river Kukuṭa

with its clear, pristine, and pleasing water.

the Teacher tired, the Wayfarer, without equal in the world,

went down, drank, bathed, and came out again.

Surrounded, honored in the midst of the Sangha,

the Blessed One, Teacher, proceeding here in Dhamma,

the Great Seer, went to the mango grove.

He addressed the monk named Cundaka:

"Spread out the cloak folded in four for me to lie down."

Asked by the One of Developed Mind,

Cundaka quickly set it out in four folds.

The Teacher arranged himself, tired,

and Cundaka sat down in front of him.

Fungi are a superdiversified kingdom.

Then the Blessed One said, "Ānanda, if anyone tries to incite remorse in Cunda the Silversmith by saying, 'It is no gain for you, friend Cunda, it is ill-done by you, that the Wayfarer, having eaten your offering, his last alms meal, gained final nirvana,' then Cunda's remorse should be allayed [in this way]: 

"'It is a gain for you, friend Cunda, and well-done by you that the Wayfarer, having eaten your offering, his last alms meal, gained final nirvana. For face to face with the Blessed One, thus have I heard. Face to face, thus have I learned:

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"'Two offerings of alms are equal to each other in fruit, equal to each other in result, of much greater fruit and reward than any other alms offering. What are the two?

"'They are the alms offering that, after having been eaten, the Wayfarer awakens to supreme enlightenment (unexcelled right self-awakening) and the alms that, after having been eaten, the Wayfarer gains (parinibbana, "final nirvana") nirvana without remainder [5].

• 5. Parinibbana, "final nirvana," nirvana without remainder, is what an arahant experiences when passing away, having overcome all further rebirth. The image is of a fire so thoroughly having exhausted its fuel that the embers are totally cool and at rest. This is distinguished from glimpsing nirvana (the deathless state, the unconditioned element) with fuel remaining -- nirvana as experienced during the lifetime of those who are not yet fully enlightened -- which is likened to a fire that has gone out but still has embers smoldering. See Iti 44, Thag 15.2, and the discussion in The Mind Like Fire Unbound, Chapter 1.

"'These are the two alms that are equal to each other in fruit, equal to each other in result, of much greater fruit and reward than any other almsgiving. Honorable [6] Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to longevity.

• 6. Āyasmant: This is a term of respect usually reserved for senior monastics. The Buddha using it here is probably meant to emphasize the point that Ven. Cunda's gift of the Buddha's last meal should be regarded as a very honorable and meritorious thing.

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"'Honorable Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to beauty. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to happiness. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to heavenly rebirths. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to high rank. Cunda the Silversmith has accumulated karma that leads to sovereignty.'

"In this way, Ānanda, Cunda the Silversmith's remorse should be allayed."

Then, realizing the significance, the Buddha on this occasion exclaimed this inspired utterance:

For a person who gives [lets go, shares], merit increases.

For one who exercises self-restraint, no animosity is amassed.

One who is skillful leaves harm behind. And from the cessation

of greed, hatred, and delusion (passion, aversion, wrong views)

gains full enlightenment and experiences nirvana.

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• Into the Shadows (video), YouTube, Oct. 23, 2024; Ven. Thanissaro (initial translation), accesstoinsight.org; Dhr. Seven, Amber Larson, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly