Can some Buddhist or other monks read minds?
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Can some Buddhist or other monks read minds
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Samana Johann
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Householder @danieldemol,
Be sure that there are even lay people, following the Buddha, not to speak about contemplatives, and careful (not because they would do harm on something but in regard of effects out of your thought, kamma-vipaka)!
As for other sects, possible, but seldom.
Once having learned to read your own, it's no more that difficult. Why not learning it?
(What one thinks when making a poll in regard of facts... maybe he is after other interests...)
Be sure that there are even lay people, following the Buddha, not to speak about contemplatives, and careful (not because they would do harm on something but in regard of effects out of your thought, kamma-vipaka)!
As for other sects, possible, but seldom.
Once having learned to read your own, it's no more that difficult. Why not learning it?
(What one thinks when making a poll in regard of facts... maybe he is after other interests...)
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HonestJoe
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What gave you the impression that they could or that it is possible in general terms?
A Buddhist monk currently on RF claims he can.
To what extent are Islamic terrorists inspired by Muhammad and the Quran?
I suspect you knew that
Samana Johann
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Be careful, householder and your clan, that not spread something that might be objected in harming monks, since such might have not good consquences for one. Just to inform in general. Choices, how ever, are his and they are free.A Buddhist monk currently on RF claims he can.
To what extent are Islamic terrorists inspired by Muhammad and the Quran?
I suspect you knew that
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Samana Johann
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For those ho might be interested on the topic itself:
abhiññā: Intuitive powers that come from the practice of concentration: the ability to display psychic powers, clairvoyance, clairaudience, the ability to know the thoughts of others, recollection of past lifetimes, and the knowledge that does away with mental effluents
...(3) “He knows the minds of other beings (parassa-ceto-pariya-ñāṇa), of other persons, by penetrating them with his own mind. He knows the greedy mind as greedy and the not-greedy one as not greedy; knows the hating mind as hating and the not-hating one as not hating; knows the deluded mind as deluded and the not-deluded one as not deluded; knows the shrunken mind and the distracted one, the developed mind and the undeveloped one, the surpassable mind and the unsurpassable one, the concentrated mind and the unconcentrated one, the freed mind and the unfreed one.
SA Huguenot
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Well, it is quite easy for this person to proof that he can read my mind.
When can we meet.
When can we meet.
In other words, knowing which message to deliver to a given being that will aid them in overcoming a mental effluent, perhaps?
"Therefore, monks, your task is to learn: 'This is Suffering, this is the Arising of Suffering, this is the Cessation of Suffering, this is the Path that leads to the Cessation of Suffering.' That is your task."
~The Simsapa Leaves Sutta
~The Simsapa Leaves Sutta
To actually read someone else's mind, doubtful IMO. However it is possible to predict what someone is thinking. Facial expression, body language, choice of words, familiarity with the individual. Some of this happens on a subconscious level, so I'd imagine a few might see this as reading minds.
No.
The Reverend Bob
Fart Machine and Beastmaster
Superstitious bollocks used to prey on the minds of the weak. Pretending have superpowers to take advantage of people who do not know better. I have heard and seen this all before.
Hhhmmm religious quakery vs hyper reductionism scientifically?
Which do i find more annoying?
As an anrachist i would have to say its easy to read some folks minds. Chaos, thats all thats going on. ..
Nothing did, hence I voted no. However as you will see from post #6 of this thread, that there does not seem to be evidence hasn’t stopped somebody making the claim ;-)
So far in your comments to me, it has been clear one can not read minds.
Reading what you were saying to @adrian009, I would suggest he would feel the same. Or maybe I read his mind.
Regards Tony
People have intuition wired in to their brains, it is not reading minds, it is being observant and forming intuitive thoughts.
In some Hindu schools, it's believed that enlightened beings gain clairaudience as a natural siddhi (power) as a result of becoming enlightened. But it wouldn't be used or talked about, as the enlightened being also has loss of ego, and there would be no need to talk of it at all. It might be used naturally as a teaching tool, similar to the way good teachers or doctors use keen observation to help someone. Someone else, having observed it, might talk about it.
Darkforbid
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I never met a western Buddhist with the clarity of mind and power of thought that would make them think they could.
Samana Johann
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Being "just" a sideeffect on the path, yes, for the ability to teach toward good it is used. And of course also to know what, whom, to avoid.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Samana Johann
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A worldling is not able to see such: good to keep in mind. Of course its merely seldom that such a person dwells in lands of wrong view and to meet a "real" monk, knowing it, oh, very seldom.