The Second Trial
At the second trial held in July 2020, the following questions and answers were exchanged.
The prosecutor insisted "On March 3, 2020, when the defendant was arrested, DMT was detected in the urine of the defendant, but not detected in May and June. This is the physical evidence the defendant took the tea in February 26".
The lawyer argued "DMT taken from outside the body is rapidly metabolized when used in combination with MAOI. Within approximately 12 hours, the concentration of DMT excreted in the urine canntt distinguish it from the range of variation in the concentration of endogenous DMT. Even if the defendant's statement that he took the tea on February 26 was true, the fact that DMT was detected in the urine of the defendant six days later means that the defendant applied tea at the tea ceremony. It's not physical evidence."
In criminal trials, physical evidence is more important than confession.
Most drug crimes in Japan are abuses of methamphetamines. Methamphetamine is not biosynthesized in the body and is excreted in urine at a detectable concentration for about a week after being taken into the body. I suppose that the Kyoto Prefectural Police misunderstood DMT is a kind of methamphetamines, so the Police arrested the defendant six days after the tea ceremony to detect the methamphetamine in the urine.
The defendant responded to the prosecutor as follows.
I admit that I took Mimosa tenuiflora tea at the house in my friend on February 26, 2020.
However, I don't admit that the tea is "aqueous solution containing DMT".
I don't know that the tea I took at that time really contained DMT. Usually, I can feel only intoxication of DMT.
And, by training, I was able to synthesize DMT in my without taking DMT from tea. So, I'm not sure the tea I took contained how much DMT.
At the time of the interview, the defendant said to me that he became able to biosynthesize endogenous DMT on his own brain by meditation method called "pineal gland training" during detention, and he was aware that the meditation method is just like Rinzai Zen meditation. Even if he feel DMT, the effect of exogenous DMT from the tea and the effect of endogenous DMT from the meditation cannot be distinguished.
In other words, "Tea and Zen are of one taste"
The prosecutor seemed to be frustrated.
He didn't understand what endogenous DMT is, or he was afraid because he knew the disciplinary action for a government official who possesses illegal drugs in his brain[*1].
Let the one among you who is without endogenous DMT be the first to throw a stone at the defendant[*2].
The Fourth Trial
Furthermore, at the 4th trial held in October, the following questions and answers were exchanged.
The prosecutor insisted. "If DMT can be synthesized in the body, there should be no need to make tea and take it from outside the body."
Defendant Aoi responded to the prosecutor's point as follows.
This opinion is very similar to the argument that the realm is the realm of meditation and years of Zen practice, and that the world that is easy to reach with psychedelics is fake.
DMT is secreted in large quantities to protect brain cells and maintain vital function when the brain becomes moribund under hypoxia. It will be experienced as a near-death experience. In other words, in order to biosynthesize a large amount of DMT on your own, you have to put a heavy load on your body and mind.
In addition, religious people have repeatedly alerted us to the dangers of Zen illness, makyo, and spiritual emergencies, or accidents called spiritual crises, during the course of Zen and meditation. During the course of training, we often fall into mental modulations such as physical modulation, hallucinations and delirium, and illogical thinking.
Drinking tea allows you to experience the same territory as someone who has been practicing meditation and Zen for decades for only two hours and then return to normal consciousness. It will not interfere with the subsequent social life at all.
Of course, meditation and many years of Zen training may lead us to a deeper level, and we respect our predecessors who have practiced such practices.
But right now, those who are mentally distressed cannot afford to practice for decades to come.
I have been working with the belief that it is useful for people to have a culture of drinking tea and having a psychedelic experience with safety in mind.
Theravada Buddhism, which began in India, is a self-help and difficult teaching that one must meditate in order to get rid of the hesitation. This is the correct theory. However, for many ordinary men who are lost in worldly desires, such meditation practice is almost impossible.
After that, a religious reform called Mahayana Buddhism took place. Mahayana Buddhism developed the teachings of other powers and easy practices, calling Theravada Buddhism "Hinayana Buddhism" and criticizing it. "Hinayāna" means "small vehicle" that can save only a few people, and "Mahāyāna" means "big vehicle" that can save many people. is there.
At the first trial, Aoi likened his activity to a "bodhisattva." Bodhisattva is a concept of Mahayana Buddhism, and although it is already possible to get rid of the hesitation, it dares to stay in this world and help those who are lost to get rid of it.
In other words, the tea master is a bodhisattva, and the tea ceremony is a bodhisattva.
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Last Updated in 11-04-2022/2565
*1:「懲戒処分の指針について（平成１２年３月３１日職職―６８）（人事院事務総長発）」『人事院』
*2:This is a metaphorical use of the phrase in the Gospel of John 8: 7, and is not a deliberate distortion of the words of the Bible. The original Greek text referred to Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum GraeceNovum Testamentum Graece: Nestle Aland 28th Revised Ed. of the Greek New Testament, Standard Edition.
