The Fifth Precept: Avoiding Intoxication that Clouds the Mind
The fifth precept: avoiding intoxication because it makes you heedless. So many things and sensory experiences can be intoxicating! And none of them automatically are. How intoxication—by molecules, media, narratives—deludes us with the real but short experience of pleasure into overriding our longer-term mindfulness and hijacks our agency. How to get free. Dependent Origination, of course, is the map.
