Three Ways to Combine Marijuana and Meditation

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Cannabis and other psychedelics are wonderful tools to use in conjunction with meditation. The key is to know how you wish to incorporate these tools within your practice and methods. The possibilities are only limited by your own imagination. Marijuana and meditation both bring states of relaxation, clarity and euphoria, combining them seems natural in this world.

1. Wake, Bake, Meditate

meditation and marijuana

Lots of stoners wake and bake as a ritual to start their day. Pour a glass of water along with your morning toke then when you feel the relaxation of being high come over your body and mind find a comfortable place to rest outside on your porch, by a tree or in the morning sun and set your mind free for a couple of minutes.

The timing works well because you don’t have a full day of happenings to contemplate yet. Often times my days go smoother because I visualize how my day will go during this meditation and I set priorities without stress or tension clouding my judgment. Make sure you set aside a good chunk of time so you don’t feel rushed.

Marijuana’s ability to “distort” time makes it easier to sit for longer stretches of time, so light up on your path to enlightenment and enjoy the moment.

2. For The People Who Get Paranoia, Flip The Script


If marijuana makes you paranoid and brings up the doubting/judgmental voice in your head then this is the perfect time to sit and meditate. Many times when we meditate we have to go through the swirling thoughts that arise before we can reach that tranquil state full of knowing, love and acceptance.

If cannabis brings a certain paranoia or thought patterns, sit and listen. Your own consciousnesses is communicating with you giving you insights into who you are, who you believe you are and who you want to be. Embrace yourself, you are the sum of all your thoughts, feelings and actions.

3. End The Silence With A Bong Rip


Sometimes after a workout or a stretching routine I’ll sit comfortably for a meditation session. I enjoy meditation after physical activity because when you close your eyes or fix your gaze on a spot the blood flow within your body is apparent and it brings the feeling of being inside of yourself.

When I feel my consciousness return to this earthly experience and away from my meditative state I leisurely grind herb and pack my bong. I make sure to have all my utensils around me so I don’t have to go far from where I meditate. I inhale deeply and allow the weightlessness to come over my tired body, soothing my previously active muscles.

This bong rip to the dome brings, an at ease state of mind, into an euphoric existence. This helps extend and ground the meditative state I feel beyond the time of the session into my next activities and tasks.

Bob Marley – When You Smoke the Herb, It Reveals You to Yourself

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When You Smoke the Herb, It Reveals You to Yourself– Bob Marley

In a culture that promotes manufactured identities suitable for constant consumption, most of us can get lost in the chaos. Cannabis breaks down the walls and reveals your current state, negative or positive. It shows truth, don’t blame the plant if you get paranoid, listen to Joe Rogan on the Marijuana and Paranoia Relationship for some herbal science.

Joe Rogan – How Hemp Became Illegal, DMT Reset Button (Video)

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Cannabis is illegal because of the economical effects it would have on cigarette sales, alcohol sales and as a viable alternative for many pharmaceutical drugs. Hemp is also useful for paper production and in the textile industry. Joe Rogan also explains the purpose of DMT, “the spirit molecule” that acts as a gateway to other realms of reality.

Hemp Became an Economic Threat to Various Industries

William Randolph Hearst who owned all these newspapers and paper mills, it was going to cost him millions of dollars to convert over to hemp. So instead he started printing stories in his paper about some new drug called “marijuana”. Marijuana wasn’t even a slang term for cannabis yet, it was used to describe a Mexican wild tobacco, completely unrelated. They got it illegal by saying people are smoking it, blacks and Mexicans are raping white women. Congress outlawed this new drug “Marijuana”, with no idea that they were outlawing hemp, which had been in use for thousands of years.

DMT, Psychedelics Isolates the Mind From Cultural Conditioning

It’s not about something that kills you. You won’t be able to absorb propaganda the way you do now. You won’t be able to look at the news the way you do now. You won’t be able to look at common cultural conditioning and predetermined patterns of behavior. None of that no longer makes sense after you’ve gone through a psychedelic experience. Any psychedelic experience is like pressing CTRL ALT DELETE on your brain.

Incubus – Summer Romance, Anti-Gravity Love Song (KJ Song Rec)

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Incubus is one of the premiere stoner rock bands. From hard rock to hip hop, funk metal to jazz; Incubus has its own special groove embedded within every song.

Incubus is a band from Calabasas, California. The band was formed in 1991 by vocalist Brandon Boyd, lead guitarist Mike Einziger, and drummer Jose Pasillas while enrolled in high school and later expanded to include bassist Alex “Dirk Lance” Katunich, and Gavin “DJ Lyfe” Koppell; both of whom were eventually replaced by bassist Ben Kenney and DJ Kilmore respectively.

Incubus has received both critical acclaim and commercial success, reaching multi-platinum sales, as well as releasing several highly successful singles.

The ninth track on S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is “Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)”. S.C.I.E.N.C.E. draws influence from diverse genres, including heavy metal, electro, funk, jazz, hip hop and techno.

Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Album Version

I’m home alone tonight.
Full moon illuminates my room, and sends my mind aflight.
I think I was dreaming up some thoughts that were seemingly possible, with you.
So I call you on the tin can phone.
We rendezvous at a quarter-two, and make sure we’re alone.
Think I’ve found a way for you and I to finally fly free.

When we get there, we’re gonna fly so far away,
Making sure to laugh; while we experience anti-gravity.
Anti gravity. Anti Gravity

For years, I kept it to myself.
Now potentialities are bound, and living under my shelf.
Simply choose your destination from the diamond canopy, and we’ll be there.
So I call you on the tin can phone.
We rendezvous at a quarter-two, and make sure we’re alone.
I may have found the way for you and I to finally be free

When we get there, we’re gonna fly so far away,
Making sure to laugh; while we experience anti-gravity.
Anti gravity. Anti Gravity

*Saxaphone Solo*

Anti gravity. Anti Gravity

Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) Acoustic Version

Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song) Live from Mountain View 10/9/2011

Incubus still gots that good sound. The guitar solo instead of the saxophone is a sick switch up.

Wiz Khalifa – In The Cut (Song Rec)

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Wiz Khalifa –  In The Cut
Album: Kush & Orange Juice (Mixtape)

Before Wiz blew up with “Black and Yellow”, he was hard at work putting out mixtape tracks for his stoner fanbase. In The Cut is all about chilling and having a good time with your buds (tress and people).

“Wake up, bake up, gotta get my cake up”

Top 10 Greatest Stoner Athletes of All Time

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Weed makes everything better including catching touchdowns passes, submitting opponents, and winning gold medals. Cannabis is the best option for athletes who want to rest and recover, eventually you’re going to see team doctors carry ounces of herb with them on team flights. Here is our list of top ten stoner athletes who represent for their favorite plant.

10. Rasheed Wallace

Sport (Years Played): Basketball (1993-2010)
Accolades: 2004 NBA Champion, 4x NBA All-Star

Famous for holding the NBA single-season record for technical fouls (he committed 41 in 2000-01), ‘Sheed is less well known for being one of the savvier players during his 15-year career (flipping the script on the laid back but dumb pothead stereotype). He was arrested with fellow Blazer Damon Stoudamire and charged with weed possession in 2002.

 

9. Mark Stepnoski

Sport (Years Played): Football (1986-2001)
Accolades: 2x Super Bowl Champion (1993 and 1996), 4x Pro Bowl (1992-1996), named to the NFL 1990s All-Decade team

You’ve got some smokers who only feel motivated to hit up their weed man to re-up and then you have others who are really all about the movement. Mark Stepnoski is a member of the latter group. After his football career, which included a couple Super Bowl rings with the Cowboys, Stepnoski has put his focus on advocating the legalization of marijuana. He’s a member of NORML (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws), Stepnoski’s public support of the group led his alma mater—a Catholic high school—to rescind his nomination for their hall of fame despite Mark’s success on the field. Eh, their loss.

 

8. Rob Van dam

Sport (Years Played): Pro Wrestling (1990-present)
Accolades: 2x ECW World Tag Team Champion, WWE Heavyweight Champion

Rob Van Dam has amazed wrestling audiences around the world with his aerial athleticism and martial arts skills. Throughout his wrestling career, Rob Van Dam rarely hesitated to voice his affection for cannabis — coining the popular catch-phrase, “Nobody gets higher than Rob Van Dam”. RVD was stripped of his WWE World title following his arrest for minor marijuana possession. RVD is open about his marijuana use and the need to reform America’s cannabis laws, frequently discussing the issue on his live radio show.

Our federal government prohibited this organic plant based on lies, continues to classify it among the most dangerous drugs to validate billions in funding pointless agendas, and denies it’s medical value, causing countless lives to suffer needlessly. How can anyone not care?

7. Dock Ellis

Sport (Years Played): Baseball (1968-1979)
Accolades: 1971 All-Star team, 1971 World Series champion, 1976 A.L. Comeback Player of the Year, No-Hitter thrown on 6/12/1970

Dock Ellis is most famous for having thrown a no-hitter while high on LSD, but he was an all-around badass baseball player, who famously did not take shit from anyone (he once intentionally hit three of the first five batters in a game).

 

6. Tim Lincecum

Sport (Years Played): Baseball (2004-present)
Accolades: 2x NL Cy Young Award winner, 2010 World Series Champion, 4x All-Star

If the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) ever starts a PETA-style celebrity campaign, Tim Lincecum would be a perfect pitchman. He looks like a stoner, talks like a stoner, has a stoner nickname (“The Freak”), and, judging by the misdemeanor pot charge he picked up in November 2009, probably is a stoner. And he’s really, really, really good at what he does. In his first four full seasons in the majors, Lincecum’s logged more than 200 innings each year, and led the National League in strikeouts three times. He’s done it all with a frame many scouts considered too small for a power pitcher, and with an unorthodox delivery that many of those same scouts thought would lead to injury. Think an occasional puff has anything to do with his prowess?

 

5. Nick Diaz

Sport (Years Played): MMA (2001-present)
Accolades: 27-7; Former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion

If there’s one group of athletes who deserve a pass when it comes to a little recreational toking, it’s gotta be MMA fighters. These dudes are subjected to some of the most brutal indignities in organized sports, and yet they’re not allowed to get high now and again? One of MMA’s respected and rising stars, Nick Diaz is known as Captain Cannabis and beloved by members of the MMA stoner community like Joe Rogan.

 

4. Ricky Williams

Sport (Years Played): Football (1995-2011)
Accolades: 1998 Heisman Trophy, 2002 1st team All Pro, 2002 Pro Bowl MVP, 10,000 Rushing Yards Club member

Football x marijuana = Ricky Williams. No other athlete has ever received as much coverage and created as much controversy for their marijuana use as the stoner NFL running back. Ricky’s love of the ganja led to his first retirement in August of 2004. This decision came as Williams had already reportedly failed three drug tests and was facing a one-year ban from the NFL. While away from the league, he studied holistic medicine at the California College of Ayurveda that fall in Grass Valley, Calif and openly used marijuana saying it was a form of psychotherapy treatment for his social anxiety disorder.

 

3. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Sport (Years Played): Bodybuilding (1968-1980)
Accolades: 1968 Mr. Universe, 7x Mr. Olympia (1970-1975, 1980)

The same man with one of the craziest life stories ever (bodybuilder/actor/governor) has also been one of the biggest influences on the marijuana movement in this country. Aside from lighting up back in his younger days, Schwarzenegger changed the whole game in 2011 when, while serving as California governor, he reduced the charge for carrying an ounce or less of marijuana to an infraction rather than a misdemeanor. Meaning people found with that amount would only face a fine of $100 and would not have the offense appear on their criminal record.

 

2. Randy Moss

Sport (Years Played): Football (1996-present)
Accolades: 1998 Offensive Rookie of the Year, 7x Pro Bowler, Record for most TDs in a season (23), Fifth on the All-Time TD list (154) and All-Time Receiving Yards list (14,858)

Randy Moss was the cool stoner version of T.O. and Chad Ochochinco before those guys were making headlines for their antics. Back in ’96, before reporting to jail to serve a 30-day sentence for a battery conviction, Moss lit up an L and later tested positive for THC during his bid. As a result, his sentence was extended by 60 days, Florida State revoked Moss’ scholarship, and he was subsequently dismissed from the university. Moss had another positive test—administered by the NFL—in 2001 but he passed on the other tests throughout his career despite admitting to using the drug in a 2005 interview with Bryant Gumbel.

 

1. Michael Phelps

Sport (Years Played): Swimming (2002-present)
Accolades: 22 Olympic medals including 18 gold

Ahh, the most infamous bong rip in sports history. After becoming a media sensation by winning a record eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Phelps was seen as an American hero who could pretty much do no wrong. Well, right until a photo of him using a bong at a University of South Carolina house party was released by the British tabloid News of the World in January 2009. As a result, Phelps received a three-month suspension from USA Swimming and Kellogg’s said they would not renew their endorsement of the Olympian. Bad move by Kellogg, Joe Rogan and other stoners love cereal.

The 25 Greatest Stoner Athletes of All Time | Complex

The Grouch & Eligh – Lake Release (KJ Song Rec)

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We can lose focus when our thoughts are filled with too much clutter, fortunately cannabis is here to help us relax and release from the noise.

[Chorus: Eligh]
When G & E is in the flesh we fresh with style’s, give it to the crowds,
Sing it out loud, put your palm to the gods if you sick of facades,
And you wanna go down to the lake for a break,
Take this journey don’t be scared, be prepared,
For the light that shines from the top of the spine,
Not the mind to the mouth, creativity release

[Eligh:]
Sittin’ by the lake, skippin stones, rippin’ poems, thinkin’ bout what I gotta do next,
For the moment trynna get my Chi in a zone, all alone on the park bench, reading through texts.
Hard to get my shit together when the brains, forever on go.
Green light, let it all flow, let em’ all know… elbow to the gut when I’m on flow. Ho
Sittin’ by the lake, and inspire me, fire me up, cause I’m bored on the back of a pick-up truck.
Trynna pick up luck like a passerby, when everything I need to survive is in side the ride of a lifetime,
Bring on, to bring on the ultimate goal, God holds my soul.
Like a pot of Gold, when the Pot gets old, I stop drop and roll,
To the next pleateu, that’s a couple of thoughts that pass me,
Like traffic on the 101, reflection, eternal, especially… by the lake, that’s one.

[Chorus:]
When G & E is in the flesh we fresh with style’s, give it to the crowds,
Sing it out loud, put your palm to the gods if you sick of facades,
And you wanna go down to the lake for a break,
Take this journey don’t be scared, be prepared,
For the light that shines from the top of the spine,
Not the mind to the mouth, creativity release

[The Grouch:]
When the world is heavy on my shoulders, I can’t get a grip (grip).
I take a break, go to the lake, there I can skinny dip (dip).
Watch me skip a rock across the greatest body of water (water),
In it I see no limit, just reflections make me hollar (hollar) (yeauh),
I’m a Baller, I got balls (balls), I rest em’ at the lake edge.
Mother Earth supports my stress, cause people often fake it (fake it).
Splash I make it last until the sun can’t even take it (take it)
Have a conversation with crickets, cause I’m sick… when I kick it (kick it).

[Chorus:]
When G & E is in the flesh we fresh with style’s, give it to the crowds,
Sing it out loud, put your palm to the gods if you sick of facades,
And you wanna go down to the lake for a break,
Take this journey don’t be scared, be prepared,
For the light that shines from the top of the spine,
Not the mind to the mouth, creativity release…

Release Release Release… Release Release Release,
Release Release Release Release Release Release Release…
Release Release Release… Release Release Release… Release Release Release,
Release… Release…
Release Release Release… Release Release Release,
Release Release Release Release Release Release Release…
Release Release Release Release… Release… Release…
Release Release Release… Release.

[Chorus:]
When G & E is in the flesh we fresh with style’s, give it to the crowds,
Sing it out loud, put your palm to the gods if you sick of facades,
And you wanna go down to the lake for a break,
Take this journey don’t be scared, be prepared,
For the light that shines from the top of the spine,
Not the mind to the mouth, creativity release…

Woody Harrelson – Thoughts From Within, a Stoner Poem on Society (Video)

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Woody expresses his stoner observations on the world, our environment, the government and his hope for change.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

I sometimes feel like an alien creature
for which there is no earthly explanation
Sure I have human form
walking erect and opposing digits,
but my mind is upside down.
I feel like a run-on sentence
in a punctuation crazy world.
and I see the world around me
like a mad collective dream.

An endless stream of people
move like ants from the freeway
cell phones, pc’s, and digital displays
“In Money We Trust,”
we’ll find happiness
the prevailing attitude;
like a genetically modified irradiated Big Mac
is somehow symbolic of food.

Morality is legislated
prisons over-populated
religion is incorporated
the profit-motive has permeated all activity
we pay our government to let us park on the street
And war is the biggest money-maker of all
we all know missile envy only comes from being small.

Politicians and prostitutes
are comfortable together
I wonder if they talk about the strange change in the weather.
This government was founded by, of, and for the people
but everybody feels it
like a giant open sore
they don’t represent us anymore
And blaming the President for the country’s woes
is like yelling at a puppet
for the way it sings
Who’s the man behind the curtain pulling the strings?

A billion people sitting watching their TV
in the room that they call living
but as for me
I see living as loving
and since there is no loving room
I sit on the grass under a tree
dreaming of the way things used to be
Pre-Industrial Revolution
which of course is before the rivers and oceans, and skies were polluted
before Parkinson’s, and mad cows
and all the convoluted cacophony of bad ideas
like skyscrapers, and tree paper, and earth rapers
like Monsanto and Dupont had their way
as they continue to today.

This was Pre-us
back when the buffalo roamed
and the Indian’s home
was the forest, and God was nature
and heaven was here and now
Can you imagine clean water, food, and air
living in community with animals and people who care?

Do you dare to feel responsible for every dollar you lay down
are you going to make the rich man richer
or are you going to stand your ground
You say you want a revolution
a communal evolution
to be a part of the solution
maybe I’ll be seeing you around.

~ Woody Harrelson

Grandma’s Boy – The Best of Super Stoner Dante

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Enjoy this Grandma’s Boy compilation of the coolest and friendliest weed slanger in the neighborhood, Dante.

Mr. Cheezle: I had a dream last night. I was a snake slithering through the grass, until I came upon a dead elk, and I climbed into his soul, and its there I stayed until morning, which meant I will underestimate someone very close to me.

Dante: Wow… where do you get your weed?

Mr. Cheezle: From you, Dante.

Dante: Oh… THAT’S RIGHT! What’s up, Mr. Cheezle!