In the mid-1970s ... - Dhamma by Ajahn Jayasāro

In the mid-1970s, before I became a monk, I spent a year in India. Many of Westerners I met there were interested in hallucinogenic drugs as a means to realize higher states of consciousness. For many years, a German Buddhist teacher, Lama Govinda, lived in the Himalayas, near Almora. One day, a Western traveller asked him: “What do you think about mind-expanding drugs?” Lama Govinda gave a brilliant reply “If your mind is ignorant, the only result will be expanded ignorance”

Buddhism is not about gaining special state of mind. It is about finding freedom from ignorance

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