Alcohol / Intoxicants

Overview

This canonical ID (7) currently groups 6 source layers with divergent titles. Milestone-1 migration preserves every layer below without inventing a single merged narrative. Status: needs-review.

Also attested under these titles

Nesajjika — The Sitter’s Practice
Three Corpses / Three Worms
Katashiro
Fire-Walking
Fu — Talismanic Technology

Research layers

Layer 1: Nesajjika — The Sitter’s Practice

Source file: 01_Buddhism.md

A dhutaṅga in which the practitioner does not lie down, sleeping and resting in a seated posture.

Historical context: Used by some forest ascetics as a discipline of wakefulness and energy.
Hazard: Prolonged sleep deprivation or forced posture can be harmful.
Reliability: A/B.

Layer 2: Three Corpses / Three Worms

Source file: 02_Daoism.md

Chinese: 三尸 sanshi
Entities imagined as inhabiting the body, contributing to decay and reporting misconduct to celestial authorities.

The belief became linked to morality, longevity techniques and Gengshen vigils.

Reliability: B.

Layer 3: Katashiro

Source file: 03_Shinto.md

A broader category of substitute form/object onto which pollution, danger or spiritual influence may be transferred.

Reliability: B.

Layer 4: Fire-Walking

Source file: 04_Syncretic_Japan.md

Some Shugendō-derived festivals include walking over an extinguished/managed bed of coals after ritual fire ceremonies.

Hazard: burn risk. Not a self-guided practice.
Reliability: B.

Layer 5: Fu — Talismanic Technology

Source file: 07_PRIMARY_SOURCE_PROCEDURE_UPGRADES_v1_6.md

Chinese: 符
Authorization: TRANSMISSION / REGISTER / PRIESTLY depending school

What a fu is

A talisman is a celestial credential, diagram and command written in a graph-system considered readable by divine officials. It is not simply decorative calligraphy.

Prerequisites

Identify the exact talismanic corpus/lineage.
Receive the scripture, talisman pattern and oral instructions.
Where required, receive the register/ordination granting authority over the named spirits or divine bureau.
Learn the deity names, seals, breath/visualization and writing order attached to that fu.

Ritual preparation

Purify body and workspace.
Prepare the transmitted paper/support, brush and ink.
Establish the ritual altar or protected space if required.
Invoke the relevant deity/bureau/general.
Adopt the transmitted internal visualization or breath method if the manual specifies one.

Writing / activation

Trace the fu in the required order.
Recite the corresponding incantation or divine names where transmitted.
Add prescribed seals/signatures.
Activate/consecrate according to the lineage.
Verify that the fu is intended for the requested application.

Deployment modes attested by specialist scholarship

A fu may be:

worn on the body;
affixed in the four directions;
placed along the route to a dwelling;
installed to protect a space;
used in healing;
burned and its ashes mixed with water in some historical rites.

Closing

Thank/dismiss invoked officials, close the altar and dispose of unused ritual materials according to the lineage.

Learning

The diagram alone is not the whole method. Traditional learning combines text + transmission + authorization + pronunciation + internal visualization + seal/brush order + deployment rules.

Safety

Historical ash-drinking is documented, but modern ink/paper may be toxic. Research reproductions should not be ingested.

Layer 6: Alcohol / Intoxicants

Source file: 13_FORBIDDEN_TABOO_RESTRICTED_INDEX_v2_1.md

Class: MORAL-PROHIBITION / DISCIPLINARY
Lay precept: abstention from intoxicants causing heedlessness. Monastic rules are stricter and text-specific.