Hello friends,
I across a video at youtube, where Theravadin monks is doing a kind of Exorcism.
Maybe metta didn't work...
Exorcism of Evil Spirit
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Excorcism or wet t shirt contest? 
Seriously though what has modern day Buddhism become?
Seriously though what has modern day Buddhism become?
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB
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That was a bit of a let down, no pea-soup spew!
Now here's an excorcism...
and more...
Just a word of advice...
If you feel like the spiderwalk is coming on - its time to for some vipassana.
Now here's an excorcism...
and more...
Just a word of advice...
If you feel like the spiderwalk is coming on - its time to for some vipassana.
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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HAHA Ben! Your right, now that's an excorcism!
Liberation is the inevitable fruit of the path and is bound to blossom forth when there is steady and persistent practice. The only requirements for reaching the final goal are two: to start and to continue. If these requirements are met there is no doubt the goal will be attained. This is the Dhamma, the undeviating law.
- BB
- BB
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Hello Goedert, all,
Miraculous Power What Buddhists Believe by Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
The Buddha knew of the power that could be developed by training the human mind. He also knew that His disciples could acquire such powers through mental development. Thus the Buddha advised them not to exercise such psychic power in order to convert less intelligent people. He was referring to the 'miraculous' power to walk on water, to exorcise spirits, raise the dead and perform the so-called supernormal practices. He was also referring to the 'miracles of prophesy' such as thought-reading, soothe-saying, fortune-telling, and so on. When the uneducated believers see the performance of such powers, their faith deepens. But the nominal converts who are attracted to a religion because of these powers embrace a faith, not because they realize the truth, but because they harbor hallucinations. Besides, some people may pass remarks that these miracles are due to certain charms. In drawing people to listen to the Dhamma, the Buddha appealed to their reasoning power.
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/wh ... iev/31.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The development of the Amulet belief in Thailand is an example of "charms".
with metta
Chris
Miraculous Power What Buddhists Believe by Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera
The Buddha knew of the power that could be developed by training the human mind. He also knew that His disciples could acquire such powers through mental development. Thus the Buddha advised them not to exercise such psychic power in order to convert less intelligent people. He was referring to the 'miraculous' power to walk on water, to exorcise spirits, raise the dead and perform the so-called supernormal practices. He was also referring to the 'miracles of prophesy' such as thought-reading, soothe-saying, fortune-telling, and so on. When the uneducated believers see the performance of such powers, their faith deepens. But the nominal converts who are attracted to a religion because of these powers embrace a faith, not because they realize the truth, but because they harbor hallucinations. Besides, some people may pass remarks that these miracles are due to certain charms. In drawing people to listen to the Dhamma, the Buddha appealed to their reasoning power.
http://www.buddhanet.net/budsas/ebud/wh ... iev/31.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
The development of the Amulet belief in Thailand is an example of "charms".
with metta
Chris
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Re: Exorcism of Evil Spirit
i was gonna bring that up...plwk wrote:Ratana Sutta
สัพเพ สัตตา สุขีตา โหนตุ
the mountain may be heavy in and of itself, but if you're not trying to carry it it's not heavy to you- Ajaan Suwat
the mountain may be heavy in and of itself, but if you're not trying to carry it it's not heavy to you- Ajaan Suwat
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Yeah.....this is the kinds of stuff that pulls away from the healthy philosophical core of Buddhism and runs right into the unhealthy superstition of religion.
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Well of course the difference is the Buddha knew how to take common beliefs of his day and use them as starting points to render his listeners more likely to be open to his actual message.
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This has nothing to do with the teaching tactics of the Buddha, I believe. As Buddhism moved throughout Asia local beliefs were incorporated into Buddhism. I think many of the practices of Thai lay Buddhist have more connection with older Thai beliefs then Buddhism. There have been many Thai monks who have disagreed with many lay practices for just this reason.PeterB wrote:Well of course the difference is the Buddha knew how to take common beliefs of his day and use them as starting points to render his listeners more likely to be open to his actual message.
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Yes Luang Por Chah was an expert psychotherapist. Of course if it had been a person educated along western lines he would have used different means.
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There is not a contradiction here necessarily. The Buddha utlised the existing belief systems of his day to liberate people from belief systems.Thaibebop wrote:This has nothing to do with the teaching tactics of the Buddha, I believe. As Buddhism moved throughout Asia local beliefs were incorporated into Buddhism. I think many of the practices of Thai lay Buddhist have more connection with older Thai beliefs then Buddhism. There have been many Thai monks who have disagreed with many lay practices for just this reason.PeterB wrote:Well of course the difference is the Buddha knew how to take common beliefs of his day and use them as starting points to render his listeners more likely to be open to his actual message.
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Interesting. When western converts to Buddhadhamma see life long practioners, born into the tradition, doing something they don't understand or approve of, it's the people who've lived the tradition for centuries who are wrong, or superstitious. We never stop for even a minute to consider that just maybe we don't know as much as we think we do. 
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Yes, very clever. I am working through Food for the Heart right now and am finding him very smart about humans and our behavior.Moggalana wrote:Ajahn Chah - The Exorcist