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 | We find warnings in Buddhist writings against the improper use of our psychic faculties. In one of the texts of the Pali Canon (Cullavagga, V, 8:1-2, Sacred Books of the East, 20:78-81) an incident is reported of a merchant of Rajagaha who acquired a block of sandalwood and had a beautiful wooden bowl made from it. He challenged anyone claiming to be possessed of iddhi, "power, craft, skill," (Pali form of the Sanskrit siddhi. These are of two kinds: the one "embraces the lower, coarse, psychic and mental energies; the other . . . exacts the highest training of Spiritual powers." -- HP Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence, p. 73) to fetch it from the top of a very tall bamboo; if he succeeded the bowl would be his. Several toyed with the idea, but went no further. Finally the venerable monk Bharadvaja came forward, and "rising up in the air, took the bowl, and went thrice" around Rajagaha. The villagers were ecstatic and began shouting and running after him. On learning the cause of this raucous behavior, the Buddha called the monks together. When Bharadvaja stated that he had indeed retrieved the bowl by the use of iddhi, the Buddha said to him and the assembled monks: This is improper, Bharadvaja, not according to rule, unsuitable, unworthy of a Samana [recluse], unbecoming, and ought not to be done. How can you, Bharadvaja, for the sake of a miserable wooden pot, display before the laity the superhuman quality of your miraculous power of Iddhi? -- Ibid., p. 80 After <b>...</b> | Views: 1480    41 ratings |
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