Precept motivation: Don't touch alcohol (video)

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Seth Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Stop drinking alcohol now: one of the most eye-opening motivational videos ever

(MotivationHub) Summer 2023: No More Alcohol Motivation Playlist Countless people -- including Dr. Jordan Peterson, Theo Von, Dr. Andrew Huberman, Mike Thurston, Tom Bilyeu, Andrew Kim, and Chris Williamson -- explain why we need to not touch alcohol.

Do no harm. Stay away from drinking.

Never mind that the historical Buddha pointed out that, karmically, it is a fundamental basis of being reborn on the human plane. Buddhist practitioners, to be virtuous, keep the fifth of the Five Precepts. It circles back to all of them. What a person normally wouldn't do -- kill, steal, cheat, deceive -- one does on account of intoxication. Therefore, the Buddha realized the harm in drinking (or any intoxicant). An intoxicant that "occasions heedlessness" (not heeding the precepts) is a harmful act (deed) from which to abstain. One wouldn't kill, but driving drunk one might. One wouldn't steal, but being stoned one might. One wouldn't cheat on a partner, but being tipsy... One wouldn't deceive others, but if one could just tie one on afterward, one sure might. One wouldn't keep getting high, but being high, one sure might. In the famous Sigalovada Sutra, the "Advice to Lay People Discourse" or "The Householder's Code of Discipline," the Buddha states it very clearly and gives reasons why. He is not setting forth how he wishes people to behave. He is revealing what karma (deeds) brings what results. Seeing hidden danger and great harm in these five things (and more), the Buddha warns against them. We can pick and choose, rationalize and make excuses -- that won't make any difference. The universe is not "punishing" us with consequences. It is merely following a natural law regarding the causes and conditions that support the fruition (phala) of resultants (vipaka). The deeds are laid down in the mind, and it is the mind that will elicit the appropriate effects in the future when karma ripens. As we have planted many, many seeds in doing a deed, so we will reap many, many results from that one deed. For happiness and benefit for a long, long time, don't touch alcohol.

• The fifth precept says avoid intoxicants (alcohol, drugs, etc.) [12, 13]. Early Buddhist Texts condemn alcohol, as do post-canonical Chinese Buddhist texts. More

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FACTS: Drinking about 3.5 drinks a day doubles or even triples risk of developing cancer of the mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus. Drinking about 3.5 drinks a day increases risk of developing colorectal cancer and breast cancer by 1.5 times. Even moderate alcohol consumption has been linked to an approximate 30 to 50 percent increased risk of breast cancer. The less alcohol one drinks, the lower one's cancer risk. 

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I don't have a problem because I'm not sleeping in an alley. "Alcohol abuse disorder" my ass.

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