"So many people regularly intoxicate themselves with all kinds of things, in order to try to temporarily escape from their boredom, problems, and suffering.

They chase after the fleeting experience of some kind of distorted state of perception, and an intoxicant induced bliss and happiness, which eventually puts so much strain on their mental and physical health, and also strain on those around them. This is very sad, because a samsaric sentient being’s perception is already distorted, and intoxicants just amplify it, which will just contribute to perpetuating samsara - their uncontrollable recurring rebirth with further problems and suffering.

If they are chasing after bliss and happiness, they should know that if you could take all of the bliss and happiness that comes from meditation, and put it into a bottle, and then give it to them, it would become their favourite drink. Because no intoxicant induced sensation could come close to the magnificent energetic bliss and happiness that one experiences from meditation.

Of course, unfortunately it is not possible to put the effects of meditation into a bottle. But the good news is, that unlike any expensive and harmful intoxicant, meditation is always free of charge, and there are no harmful side effects, and it is always good for your mental and physical health, and it is always available, and the more meditation that you do, the more health, bliss and happiness that you will experience, and the closer that you will get to your freedom from samsara, where you will experience the supreme everlasting pure bliss of nirvana, and further, the enlightened state of a buddha."

Chamtrul Rinpoche