The Boy With Divine Powers

kullukid

I was flicking through the channels a few weeks ago & came across this program called "The Boy With Divine Powers!" I think it was the discovery channel.

It was about the boy Buddha who was meditating under a tree in Nepal. The program was an hour long & quite detailed, i've read about him before here on IM & thought not another religioscam (new word i've just invented) but not at all, the people who made the program were there to try & disprove the claims that he had meditated for months without food, water or toilet.

The boy as had 2 fences built around him with a inner & outer compound, the first fence keeps the masses (who have now built a town where before it was just jungle) out at a distance of 50yards, but the film crew managed to negotiate their way into the first compound which meant they were only 25yards away, here they set up a camera targeted on the meditating boy constantly for 96hrs & not once was he seen eating or drinking.

He was paid a visit by a high lama from a tibetan monastery near Dehra dun who claimed the boy was one of his pupils and that he had vowed to sit there until he achieved enlightenment the monk sat in front of him for about an hour trying to work out what type of meditation technique he was using, during this hour it was noticed the boy was sweating & you could see the sweat running down his face & neck. The lama came to the conclusion that the boy was practising a form of Tumo which actually takes many years to perfect.

Tumo is the Tibetan Buddhist technique of keeping warm. ... Tumo is a meditation that channels mystical heat through the veins, arteries and nerve channels, it is done by visualising that you are surrounded by a flame. The film crew also went to visit a scientist in India who as been doing laboratory controlled tests on a Sadhu who claims not to have eaten for 60yrs, the sadhu is constantly under surveillance in the lab (by video camera) with no access to food.

The sadhu claims that he receives his energy from the sun, using a technique where you stare at the sun, it was suggested the Buddha boy may be using the same technique. Finally the crew made their way back to Nepal to the Bhudda boy only to discover that the day before 59 witnesses had seen a flame shoot out of the boys chest!!!!! Serious!!!! weeks later the boy disappeared & was not seen again. KK

crvlvr

there ihas been quite a bit of news reports and articles on this. he has been missing since March 2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_Bomjon

milan

AWesome.

Kiki

This is really very interesting. Of course, it could be a big hoax, but it could also be sincere...guess we'll have to wait six years to find out, eh? If this child really is able to do what they say, hiding from a bunch of people wouldn't be that difficult!

I read the article referenced above. Please note that "Lama" is a fairly common surname in Nepal and does not mean that the person mentioned in this article under that name is an actual Lama.

amyl

oops...his disappearance has ruined a lucrative means of earning money for the local opportunistic group . just a thot...

yes.. this is interesting......but did not get why they had to deal with that outer fence in the first place... if the fences are not see thru just hook up a high zoom camera on some nearby tree. that shud work, ain't it? Did not get that logic behind that 'only 25yrds away'

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milan

I've been following this case for months.

I haven't seen that documentary - but I wonder where that whole "divine powers" thing comes from! As far as I, and everybody else knows, he's just a young boy meditating under a tree. That was, of course, before he went missing!!!

kullukid

You mean he just "DISAPPEARED" must be Divine powers! KK

sirensongs

Don't think there were ever divine powers attributed to him - just great tapas (fasting, never sleeping or walking or going to lavatory etc).

The latest: he's disappeared, yet again.

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moo

Now you see him . . . now you don't.

sirensongs

And, so he is!

Nepal's Buddha boy plans live burial: report
From correspondents in Kathmandu, Nepal, 07:32 PM IST

Ram Bahadur Bomjan - Nepal's 'Buddha Boy' whose followers claim he has meditated without food or water - is back in the news with media reports suggesting that he plans to be buried alive while meditating.

complete story: India ENews

...maybe it was the only way he could get some peace and quiet. ?

kullukid

Here's the guy who hasn't eaten for 60yrs mentioned above:
http://www.amazingabilities.com/amaze5a.html
You may find the other stories on this link very interesting too! KK

IndeGuru

Quantum physics can explain this, perhaps..we're all essentially energy, comprising of sub atomic particles which are constantly appearing & dissapearing, sort of rising & falling in no random fashion.. so essentially human are same as everything we see in this universe..You can also raise/alter the frequency of your vibrations and thus bring drastic change in your physical state.

Meditation can sort of alter this frequency & thus change your physical state..

For more explanation try reading 'Yoga of time travel' by Dr. Fred Alan Wolf - Phd