Is it true that buddhist monks have super powers
By amrithgk
@amrithgk (162)
India
January 8, 2007 11:56am CST
I have heard that buddhist monks especially in nepal have mind powers attained by meditation. Is it true?? The leader of buddhist monk called Rimpocha has mental powers to more objects without touching them
3 responses
@monkeykingaround (896)
• United States
19 Feb 07
It might be possible that they could have mind control / psychic powers. There are lots of area in our brain that scientist hasn't uncover yet. The monk could somehow use some part of their brain that we didn't know yet. Anything is possible.
@tigertang (1749)
• Singapore
6 Oct 07
I think you are right. We only use 10-15% of our brains capabilities and we don't know what the remaining 85-90 percent of our brains can do, which is probably why we assume super powers whenever we see people doing something that we would imagine to be impossible.
Monks spend their lives in intense meditation and as such attune their brains and focus into being able to control their bodies. Their mental strength is well developed and I suspect that some of the higher monks who have lived intensly in the world of monastic discipline have found the ability to use the parts of the human brain that we don't use.
@usman400 (1587)
• Pakistan
8 Jan 07
I dont believe that, if some one could have super powers, than why there is too much soruce of powers in the world, also if this could happened then the person with super powerd must would change the world according to its own will, I believe that there is only one super power, & i.e. GOD
@gharinder (2044)
• India
22 Feb 07
yeah it is true they do have mind powers, about 2-3 years back i had seen a program on discovery channel in which they had shown that how monks are able to bear the freezing temperatures of cold water, which is not possible for a common man, it is just the power of meditation and person's who meditate daily are only one's who can understand the secret behind these mental powers, and for other's it may be untrue.
