RE: I'm Addicted To Drugs

[reddust]

One of my meditation teachers Sn Goenka broke his addiction to some kind of opium drug doing vipassana, it's a great story, I know so many people that have broke their addictions in so many ways. You can do it🙏🌸🌸

Edit...I had panic, night terrors, and anxiety problems years ago, really bad, broke mine at a meditation retreat...don't recommend this technique, it was awful and painful. I did try antidepressants for a year and they didn't help.

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[whatsup]

Gosh, now I will have to google vipassana.

[reddust]

I had severe attacks of migraine every fortnight, I was given a sedative injection of morphine as its cure. This unpleasant situation kept on worsening day by day. Then, family doctors cautioned me that I could become an addict to morphine. They said, ‘if this happens, then you will have to take a morphine injection daily.’ They advised me to consult the leading doctors of the foreign countries I visited on my business. They also said that even if they were not able to cure this special type of migraine they might prescribe an alternative painkiller. I agreed to their good advice and the next time when I went abroad, I consulted the leading doctors in Switzerland, Germany, England, America and Japan. But I failed to get any relief from either migraine or morphine. When I returned home extremely disappointed, a very close friend of mine named U Chan Htoon, the Attorney General of Burma advised me to sit a 10-day Vipassana course. He was confident that practicing Vipassana would definitely free me from migrain. He maintained that the illness is psychosomatic i.e. related to the body and the impurities of the mind and that the Buddha’s teaching of Vipassana would purify the mind of the impurities and I would for ever get rid of migraine and its antidote-- the sedative morphine.

http://www.vridhamma.org/en2012-01

[whatsup]

Hey, Thank you for the information. I will check it out.

[reddust]

I'll get you the story, it's awesome, but to do a retreat you gotta promise to do the retreat to become enlightened, to help others. It's free too, there are all sorts of dhamma.org retreats all over the world.