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Is there a relationship or similarity between samadhi and drugs?

Drugs can mimic the experience of samadhi, but they only create a dreamlike illusion that keeps you asleep; true samadhi awakens your being through meditation and awareness, leading you to reality, not dependence.

— Osho
According to Osho, there is both a resemblance and a gulf: drugs can chemically mimic samadhi, producing a dreamlike, pseudo-ecstasy that soothes hunger for truth but never nourishes it, keeps you asleep, and leads to dependence and crash. True samadhi awakens and nourishes being, arising from meditation and awareness, not chemical coercion; it is reality, not illusion. Therefore drugs are obstacles, not a path, to enlightenment.

Drugs feel like the real thing but are just a dream that keeps you asleep; real samadhi wakes you up and feeds your soul.

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