1161 From: meg Date: Fri Jul 1, 2005 1:01pm Subject: <no subject> margaretsueh... Send IM Send Email
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3Such unusual gifts [siddhis], whether cultivated or not, may deflect the aspirant from his path to true mystical experience of God, and have never been highly regarded by great teachers; one of the four cardinal sins in the monastic order of the Buddha - after unchastity, theft, and killing - was laying claim to miraculous powers. It is related that Sakyamuni once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had wasted twenty years of his human existence in learning how to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.2
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