How to Refrain From Intoxicating Beverages

There is no prohibition here on anything. There's just a recommendation, and that is to refrain as much as possible from intoxicating if english is not your native language, it means alcohol. If you cannot enjoy a dinner without a glass of wine, than you can have a glass of Wine. It one glass of wine would not unduly interfere with the arising presence in you. But two, might, and three, it will. Unless youare really already deeply engaged in presencs, deeply rooted in presence,. In which case you wouldn't even want to drink too much, and you certainly wouldn't get drunk. So as little as possible, i recommend, none at all would be