Showing posts with label magic powers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label magic powers. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Awakening (liberating insight) is normal

What if the ego (self, soul) were just to melt and disappear for a moment? Would we let go?

Awakening is totally normal, Dude. Don't go looking for special magic experiences
Wake up, Zen meditators, or it's the paddle!
(The Theory of Samsara) Premiered Nov. 27, 2025: 🧘‍♂️ Why do we all so easily fall into "spiritual delusion"? Why do we chase psychedelic highs, promises of supernatural powers, or “special” experiences instead of understanding the ordinary, unchanging nature of consciousness [and related phenomena] itself?

This video dives more deeply into the mechanics of self-deception on the spiritual path —
  • How craving fuels suffering,
  • Why Western culture’s addictions make it worse,
  • Why meditators so often mistake mental fabrications for awakening.
Let's explore the Buddha’s actual teaching:
  • Craving is the root of suffering
  • Consciousness is ordinary, not something to be manufactured
  • Awakening can’t be given to us by a teacher
  • Psychedelic trips are NOT enlightenment
  • Pride, jealousy, and other delusions and fabricated identities destroy the Path
  • True realization begins with a stable, uncontrived mind.

Whether we practice Zen (jhana), Mahamudra ("great seal"), Vipassana (insight meditation), or Dzogchen (choiceless awareness), the message is the same: Stop looking for the extraordinary.

Instead, recognize the nature of mind as it is: SUCHNESS, ordinary mind — nothing to adopt, nothing to abandon.

If we want to avoid spiritual self-sabotage and cultivate a genuine path toward awakening, this is for us. Check out ultimatemeaning.org for more information.

#spiritualdelusion #buddhism #awakening #meditationpractice #dzogchen #mahamudra #ordinarymind #buddhadharma #spirituality #selfdeception #craving #suffering #mindfulness #psychedelics #nondual #zenmeditation #enlightenmentpath
  • Anand Universe Official, Is there a God? Nov. 23, 2025; The Theory of Samsara; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly 

Thursday, October 26, 2017

10 Superpowers Monks Have in Real Life (video)


Real Magic? Levitating monk, can we believe our eyes? THE SUPERNATURALIST/Discovery

Levitating monk's magic secret revealed!
Masked Magic Secrets Revealed(Masked Magic Secrets Revealed) Oct. 28, 2025: 1,102,967 views. In this video, MMSR reveals the truth behind the "real-life" levitating Nepalese [Vajrayana] Buddhist monk on the Discovery channel. #magicsecret #magicrevealed #magictricksrevealed

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Magician Dan White meets up with a Buddhist monk in Nepal with the power of levitation allegedly. THE SUPERNATURALIST on Discovery.com On a quest for magic in Nepal, fake stage magician Dan White reveals some of his magic tricks to the local residents.
  • Some meditators can levitate. Is this one doing it in front of the camera? Very doubtful. It looks to us as if Discovery went too far in trying to get a sensational "story," not the first time Westerners have overreached. Read Magic and Mystery in Tibet. Does it not look odd that he's so close to the wall, a great place for a wall mounted crane or life, a few camera tricks. The thing that seems most fake about it is Dan White's lame reaction and the cameraman's non-fascination. Someone has to tell you to get a picture of this? Someone has to ask, Are you seeing this? No, Dan, we were too busy scratching off this snow flea to notice. Oh, look, you're right, he's floating. You don't see that every day. Thanks for pointing it out. And he doesn't zoom in, and he doesn't get close, and he doesn't fixate on the spectacle. Oh, brother. Not to mention that it is a grave Monastic Code violation to flaunt magical powers, as it would cause a disruptive uproar of people going to see him do it again...and again and again.
  • The Richest; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly UPDATED Oct. 25, 2026