Teddy
@foxfiredharma.bsky.social
Ph.D. student in clinical psychology exploring the overlap between Buddhism, esoterica, and psychedelic practices. Psilocybin changed my life and it is a labor of love to understand it.
Bay Area-based. And Queer.
https://foxfiredharma.com
Bay Area-based. And Queer.
https://foxfiredharma.com
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Teddy
@foxfiredharma.bsky.social
· Oct 1
Ten Principles of Psychedelic Buddhism - Foxfire Dharma
Articulating clear principles is both historically and practically necessary, with the hope of providing a shared compass to individuals and communities walking a path that is ethical, autonomous, and...
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The need to articulate guiding principles for the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice arises the openness and fascination they engender. This presents us with unique opportunities for both insight and harm. Lack of clarity on these issues harms both the practitioner and the practice.
Just a little more than 24 hours from when I leave Seattle
to move back to the Bay Area,
I'm up late at night dealing with a good amount
of bittersweet emotions.
An open heart doesn't cling.
to move back to the Bay Area,
I'm up late at night dealing with a good amount
of bittersweet emotions.
An open heart doesn't cling.
January 18, 2026 at 9:59 AM
Just a little more than 24 hours from when I leave Seattle
to move back to the Bay Area,
I'm up late at night dealing with a good amount
of bittersweet emotions.
An open heart doesn't cling.
to move back to the Bay Area,
I'm up late at night dealing with a good amount
of bittersweet emotions.
An open heart doesn't cling.
Suffering does not end if one does not surrender to compassion.
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Suffering does not end if one does not surrender to compassion.
New Year's is falling a little flat for me this year. I guess I'm just at a point where I'm exhausted of trying to bargain with a force that does not bargain. I think the shift is, not using the calendar to try to predict or control conditions, but just staying with conditions are they are, now.
January 1, 2026 at 12:02 AM
New Year's is falling a little flat for me this year. I guess I'm just at a point where I'm exhausted of trying to bargain with a force that does not bargain. I think the shift is, not using the calendar to try to predict or control conditions, but just staying with conditions are they are, now.
If it cannot accompany you to Hell, it is not the Dharma.
December 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If it cannot accompany you to Hell, it is not the Dharma.
Practice gets weird in ways the teachings don't prepare you for.
December 27, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Practice gets weird in ways the teachings don't prepare you for.
When light appears, it is no less intimate than darkness.
Death and rebirth are only names
for how that which is shifts its face.
What is unborn does not die;
what does not die was never born.
Tonight, light is not born—
it merely awakens.
Death and rebirth are only names
for how that which is shifts its face.
What is unborn does not die;
what does not die was never born.
Tonight, light is not born—
it merely awakens.
December 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM
When light appears, it is no less intimate than darkness.
Death and rebirth are only names
for how that which is shifts its face.
What is unborn does not die;
what does not die was never born.
Tonight, light is not born—
it merely awakens.
Death and rebirth are only names
for how that which is shifts its face.
What is unborn does not die;
what does not die was never born.
Tonight, light is not born—
it merely awakens.
This isn't universal, and this isn't "orthodox." But it is honest, and spoken with great sincerity.
I don't think it's possible for insight to move in some lives without the interference of things like psilocybin and THC. Karma—conditions—can only be worked upon within lived, actual conditions. (🧵)
I don't think it's possible for insight to move in some lives without the interference of things like psilocybin and THC. Karma—conditions—can only be worked upon within lived, actual conditions. (🧵)
December 19, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This isn't universal, and this isn't "orthodox." But it is honest, and spoken with great sincerity.
I don't think it's possible for insight to move in some lives without the interference of things like psilocybin and THC. Karma—conditions—can only be worked upon within lived, actual conditions. (🧵)
I don't think it's possible for insight to move in some lives without the interference of things like psilocybin and THC. Karma—conditions—can only be worked upon within lived, actual conditions. (🧵)
Awareness unfolds toward form within me, but which form that takes cannot be planned. It can only unfold. I can't worry about what it is I'm becoming, I can only become it.
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Awareness unfolds toward form within me, but which form that takes cannot be planned. It can only unfold. I can't worry about what it is I'm becoming, I can only become it.
I suppose it's not very "equanimity" of me to suggest that we completely nix the colonial-era translation of bodhi as "enlightenment" once and for all
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I suppose it's not very "equanimity" of me to suggest that we completely nix the colonial-era translation of bodhi as "enlightenment" once and for all
Man, the AI slopocalypse has really hit Buddhist YouTube hard hasn’t it?
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Man, the AI slopocalypse has really hit Buddhist YouTube hard hasn’t it?
After all the years of suffering, I have come to see:
Reality never commanded my pain.
Suffering was never intrinsic to life,
but born of not seeing life as it is.
To see clearly is to be free—
the only freedom there is.
The barriers to awakening are paper thin
but take aeons to cross.
Reality never commanded my pain.
Suffering was never intrinsic to life,
but born of not seeing life as it is.
To see clearly is to be free—
the only freedom there is.
The barriers to awakening are paper thin
but take aeons to cross.
November 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
After all the years of suffering, I have come to see:
Reality never commanded my pain.
Suffering was never intrinsic to life,
but born of not seeing life as it is.
To see clearly is to be free—
the only freedom there is.
The barriers to awakening are paper thin
but take aeons to cross.
Reality never commanded my pain.
Suffering was never intrinsic to life,
but born of not seeing life as it is.
To see clearly is to be free—
the only freedom there is.
The barriers to awakening are paper thin
but take aeons to cross.
Trauma isn't just an injury to the psyche, it's a forced adaptation to an inhuman pattern. The symptoms of traumatic disorder are simply the organism refusing to normalize the intolerable.
October 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Trauma isn't just an injury to the psyche, it's a forced adaptation to an inhuman pattern. The symptoms of traumatic disorder are simply the organism refusing to normalize the intolerable.
Craving, “recoil,” is not merely the root of suffering, but the root of the one who suffers.
Does sidewalk moss have Buddhanature? - Foxfire Dharma
The Second Noble Truth is the tenet of Buddhist teaching that carries the highest potential for misuse and harm.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Craving, “recoil,” is not merely the root of suffering, but the root of the one who suffers.
I've definitely noticed differences in approach to practice between those who were introduced to Buddhism through rupture, versus other paths. When suffering is undeniable and can't be abstracted or seen only as a doctrinal issue, the First Noble Truth really sounds out like a clear gong.
October 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I've definitely noticed differences in approach to practice between those who were introduced to Buddhism through rupture, versus other paths. When suffering is undeniable and can't be abstracted or seen only as a doctrinal issue, the First Noble Truth really sounds out like a clear gong.
Trying to "kill" the ego is a lot like a cat chasing a laser pointer.
October 9, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Trying to "kill" the ego is a lot like a cat chasing a laser pointer.
We have to admit that psychedelics in Buddhist practice are an innovation, and that’s okay. That keeps us honest about the actual work we’re doing: rooting ourselves in the here-and-now, and meeting the Dharma in exactly this time and place.
Psychedelics are an innovation in Buddhism, and that's ok - Foxfire Dharma
Dharma arises from the actual lived conditions of a place and its people. For me, that's meant poverty, queerness, and psychedelics.
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October 2, 2025 at 7:37 PM
We have to admit that psychedelics in Buddhist practice are an innovation, and that’s okay. That keeps us honest about the actual work we’re doing: rooting ourselves in the here-and-now, and meeting the Dharma in exactly this time and place.
Reposted by Teddy
The need to articulate guiding principles for the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice arises the openness and fascination they engender. This presents us with unique opportunities for both insight and harm. Lack of clarity on these issues harms both the practitioner and the practice.
Ten Principles of Psychedelic Buddhism - Foxfire Dharma
Articulating clear principles is both historically and practically necessary, with the hope of providing a shared compass to individuals and communities walking a path that is ethical, autonomous, and...
foxfiredharma.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The need to articulate guiding principles for the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice arises the openness and fascination they engender. This presents us with unique opportunities for both insight and harm. Lack of clarity on these issues harms both the practitioner and the practice.
Like, we can all agree that Avalokiteșvara is extremely psychedelic right?
October 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Like, we can all agree that Avalokiteșvara is extremely psychedelic right?
The need to articulate guiding principles for the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice arises the openness and fascination they engender. This presents us with unique opportunities for both insight and harm. Lack of clarity on these issues harms both the practitioner and the practice.
Ten Principles of Psychedelic Buddhism - Foxfire Dharma
Articulating clear principles is both historically and practically necessary, with the hope of providing a shared compass to individuals and communities walking a path that is ethical, autonomous, and...
foxfiredharma.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The need to articulate guiding principles for the use of psychedelics in Buddhist practice arises the openness and fascination they engender. This presents us with unique opportunities for both insight and harm. Lack of clarity on these issues harms both the practitioner and the practice.
My practice has always felt more raw, feral, and untamed than what I usually encounter on the cushion. My whole life I assumed awakening meant transcendence and profound settling. I’m learning it can also mean a deep rewilding.
The Author
My path in Buddhism has been unusual. I often feel at odds with conventional sanghas and meditation centers because my entry point was not what it was “supposed” to be. I didn’t come through a conv…
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September 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
My practice has always felt more raw, feral, and untamed than what I usually encounter on the cushion. My whole life I assumed awakening meant transcendence and profound settling. I’m learning it can also mean a deep rewilding.
It's been a while since I'm been admin for a site, so is it just me or have WP editing blocks and customization options become...clunkier?
September 28, 2025 at 3:19 AM
It's been a while since I'm been admin for a site, so is it just me or have WP editing blocks and customization options become...clunkier?
Here in the West we have our rituals and our observance of fear as liberation...but here, even in these settings, the role of fear-as-medicine is rarely acknowledged as a gateway to deeper realization of mind.
High strangeness as a gateway to awakening
Here in the West, we have our rituals of fear as liberation, but even in these settings, the role of fear-as-medicine is rarely acknowledged as a gateway to deeper realization of mind.
foxfiredharma.com
September 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Here in the West we have our rituals and our observance of fear as liberation...but here, even in these settings, the role of fear-as-medicine is rarely acknowledged as a gateway to deeper realization of mind.
I was caught in the very fault line that trauma opens in awareness itself. If you’ve ever felt an electrical jolt of shock or terror seize your body—imagine freezing it, and then descending so far into it that you watch it unravel at the molecular level. That’s where I was.
When the mind saw through itself, life changed
A painting of psychedelic visuals I made in the integration process after my first mushroom trip I want to explore the question of why we suffer, but first, I need to tell you about the moment when…
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September 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM
I was caught in the very fault line that trauma opens in awareness itself. If you’ve ever felt an electrical jolt of shock or terror seize your body—imagine freezing it, and then descending so far into it that you watch it unravel at the molecular level. That’s where I was.
The thing about starting a blog about my Buddhist and psychedelic practice is that I have no idea what I’m doing. It’s not a path I’m walking as much as a path that’s walking me. So yeah there’s a sense of “Why am I doing this again?” But take the “I” out, and it somehow makes sense.
September 25, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The thing about starting a blog about my Buddhist and psychedelic practice is that I have no idea what I’m doing. It’s not a path I’m walking as much as a path that’s walking me. So yeah there’s a sense of “Why am I doing this again?” But take the “I” out, and it somehow makes sense.
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What I’d failed to notice until this crisis is that this constant, incessant, reflexive, unthinking, utterly exhausting push and pull of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the engine that drives my entire life.
What I’d failed to notice until this crisis is that this constant, incessant, reflexive, unthinking, utterly exhausting push and pull of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the engine that drives my entire life.
Let’s start with suffering
The Four Sights of Siddhartha Gautama, Modern Thai Temple Mural I have to respect a tradition whose founder’s first teaching is one of the most obvious facts of existence: In life, we suffer.…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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What I’d failed to notice until this crisis is that this constant, incessant, reflexive, unthinking, utterly exhausting push and pull of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the engine that drives my entire life.
What I’d failed to notice until this crisis is that this constant, incessant, reflexive, unthinking, utterly exhausting push and pull of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is the engine that drives my entire life.