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Has anyone seen any meditation master demonstrating abhinna or supernatural powers?
It is not desirable to answer such questions because inevitably some smart cookie will debate every example by offering counter examples of parlor magicians who can do the same.
As the Kevatta Sutta ...
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Has anyone seen any meditation master demonstrating abhinna or supernatural powers?
Sansayan: the short answer to your question is yes, I have. A Sri Lankan monk who is now deceased for some years now, Ven Anandamaitreya, definitely had acquired it. There is nothing unique to this ...
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Is it possible to fly?
This is actually nothing special to feel excited about. In Ayurvedic terms, when Vatha(air element) is imbalanced in the body, people tend to see dreams of flying. More information here
On the other ...
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Psychic Powers and the Kevatta Sutta (DN 11)
There are 2 things here.
developing supernormal powers
displaying supernormal powers
Developing supernormal powers as side benefit of meditation is welcome and long as they are used to teach and ...
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Is fortune telling allowed in temples?
No. Fortune telling, astrology, palmistry, divination etc. are considered to be "animal" arts by the Buddha, which is forbidden to monks in DN 2 (quoted below).
From DN 2:
"Whereas ...
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Does Buddhism cause longevity?
Quoting from Maha-parinibbana Sutta: Last Days of the Buddha,
And the Blessed One said: "Whosoever, Ananda, has developed, practiced, employed, strengthened, maintained, scrutinized, and
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I was wondering about deep meditation and out of body experiences
I suddenly looked down and saw myself sitting, I was out of my body, I
tried to look around and I saw what I can only describe as many beautiful places/doors
This is an effect of certain Samatha ...
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Credible Modern Videos/Stories of Buddhist Six Paranormal Powers
The Buddha forbade monks to demonstrate psychic powers to lay people. Therefore, at least in Theravada Buddhism, it is uncommon to meet Buddhists claiming & displaying psychic powers.
The monks ...
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Can Buddhists see into the future?
Can Buddhists see into the future?
Here are some prophecies made by Padmasambhava :
Many people are familiar with the prophecies of Nostradamus made more than seven hundred years ago, but few ...
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Discernment or blind belief?
You do not have to believe in these things if you do not want to but do not reject then outright also. Though maybe not all aspects, you might realize some aspects of Buddhism which you might have ...
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Discernment or blind belief?
There are several topics about faith on this site.
I think that "faith" may be a preliminary state e.g. as described in this topic.
If you were drowning and someone throws you a rope, you need enough ...
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Buddhism and miracles
Yes, most Buddhists do believe that the Bodhisatta walked 7 steps immediately after being born and also believe in the miracles mentioned in the scriptures literally. Within this group some believe ...
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SN 41:3,4 Where do these monks vanish to?
It should be not understood as "rejection" or disprove if offered isn't made use of, good householder, can have many reasons, often Vinaya. Ones act of merits (if meritorious intended) ...
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In a Buddhist perspective how do we recall memories of this life and beyond?
There is a simple difference between the modern perspective of memory and the Buddhist perspective of memory.
So what is it?
In the modern understanding the brain is the storage device of the mind ("...
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Can Buddhists see into the future?
On the main topic of the question "Can Buddhas see into future"
Yes,here are some incidents given in Buddhist teachings...
One morning when lord Buddha was scanning the universe he saw that a
boy is ...
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Jhanic concentration and feeling
It is inappropriate to ask such questions, because they unequivocally end in an argument which is basically the same as trying to convince someone in the 14th century of how an aeroplane works. It ...
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Did the Buddha tell how to visit another part of universe via meditation?
The Buddha mentioned many supernatural powers called siddhi but he did not teach them. He mentions that samadhi is required to developing siddhi but since siddi do not help to end dukkha the Buddha ...
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Is it possible to fly?
Ajahn Chah once answered this similar question with something like; "dung beetles can fly, what is so special about flying?". He was asked if he could fly. IMO ajahn Chah tried to say that the ...
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I was wondering about deep meditation and out of body experiences
What you're describing is one of the many superpowers you can develop when practicing meditation.
In the Kevatta sutta http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.11.0.than.html the Buddha ...
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Monks chosen for Tibetan Telepathy
Not all worthy (enlightened) monks have psychic powers. In fact, Satan or Mara also has psychic powers. The Buddha's enemy Devadatta, who tried to murder Buddha, also had psychic powers. Psychic ...
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Buddha's Power of Seeing Other Beings Mind
Katamañca, kevaṭṭa, ādesanāpāṭihāriyaṃ? Idha, kevaṭṭa, bhikkhu parasattānaṃ parapuggalānaṃ cittampi ādisati, cetasikampi ādisati,
vitakkitampi ādisati, vicāritampi ādisati: ‘evampi te mano, ...
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Buddha's Power of Seeing Other Beings Mind
The word you are looking for is para citta vijana nana
Pali:
Para - another
Citta - mind
Vijana - understand
Nana - knowledge
I.e., knowledge of another's mind.
This is also known as ceto pariya ...
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Do we believe psychic and supernatural powers of Buddha?
You are basically saying "I have doubts about the Buddha's supernatural powers. Can someone prove them to me?". Nobody can do this for you unless the Buddha himself comes and show you. But that's not ...
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Is there a list of (all the) Suttas that mention supranormal powers?
Here are the search results for "psychic" in five main nikayas. It is not exhaustive since translation is not complete:
AN10.90
AN10.97
AN11.10
AN1.188-197
AN1.235-247
AN1.394-574
AN3.101
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How reliable is that the Buddha actually spoke about supernatural powers?
Monks (Bhilkhus) are not allowed to speak about their gained higher attainments (toward non-Bhikkhus), good householder, as well as not showing special skills, by the rules they are given by the ...
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How reliable is that the Buddha actually spoke about supernatural powers?
I think that for a Buddhist, the fact that something is recorded in the Pali canon is usually evidence enough that the Buddha said that -- its being in the canon is some of the only evidence that the ...
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