If you want to bake cookies that look, smell and taste of grandma’s, then follow her recipe. And if you want to accomplish the Buddha’s liberation then you should follow his instructions. We could alter our states with plants or music, but he wasn’t interested in any of that. What was his goal? There are many stressors: circumstantial, physical, interpersonal, and mental. The Buddha found that the more we have fallen under the influence of our clinging, craving, and hating th