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Domains of Consciousness

An Interview with Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart (Bantam), teaches Vipassana at Spirit Rock Center in Woodacre, California. This interview was first conducted by Robert Forte, a longtime student of Buddhism and an independent scholar of history and the psychology of religion, on February 3, 1986, in San Anselmo, California, and revised for Tricycle in 1996.

Tricycle: Is there a Buddhist point of view on psychedelics?

KornField: No. Psychedelics are found rarely, if at all, in the Buddhist tradition, and generally would be lumped together in the precepts under “intoxicants.” In Zen, Vajrayana, and the Theravada traditions, there is very little mention of them and there is no traditional point of view about their use. It is important to understand that. What points of view we have come from the understanding of Buddhist masters and teachers based on contemporary experience.

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