Tobacco: The Guide That Leads the Blind on a False Path Which Ends in a Precipice

In his endless kindness to Vajrayana practitioners, KyabjŽ DŸdÕjom Rinpoche quotes from the gTŽrmas of Chšgyal Ratna Lingpa, Sang-gyŽ Lingpa, RigÕdzin GoÕdem, DŸdÕdŸl Dorje, gTŽrtšn Longsel, Thugchog Dorje, DroÕdŸl Lingpa, and Ma-g‚ig Labdršn, in order to explain the non-ordinary visionary history which illuminates the deleterious nature of tobacco. Warnings concerning tobacco have been revealed as gTŽrmas since the first spread of Buddhism in Tibet, and therefore authentic Nyingma practitioners cannot have association with tobacco. D ŸdÕjom RinpocheÕs treatise deals with demonic intentionality as discussed in the gTŽrmas of the great gTŽrtšns, and is thus mainly influential with those Vajrayana practitioners who have confidence in Padmasambhava and the gTŽrma tradition. It should, however, be of interest to other Buddhists Ð and to people in general Ð that such warnings have existed for so long and that they are so vehement.