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Ram Bahadur Bamjan from the Nepalian village Bara has been meditating non-stop for the last six months. In that time he is supposed to have gone without water and food. He started his meditation marathon after a trip to nearby Lumpini, the place where the Buddha was born 2500 years ago. In another coincidence, his mother is named Maya Devi, which was also the Buddha's name. People have taking this a clues that he might be an incarnation of the Buddha. According to Bamjan he isn't there yet, coz he has only reached primary enlightenment (I didn't even know there were different levels).

Source: BBC News
 
yep there are different levels

EDIT - no joke, because i was isulted (runs home crying)
 
Shakermaker said:
... non-stop for the last six months. In that time he is supposed to have gone without water and food.
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Not biologically possible for humans. That's just rediculous. It's not even scientifically possible, or physically possible, or what-have-you. These aren't the biggest reasons as to why, but for example how can he not dry out? It looks pretty hot in that picture (which doesn't really have much of an effect, it is inevitable water evaporates) You can't just sit there for 6 months and not die from lack of food to keep the body going, or water to keep the body hydrated.

You don't even need know much about science to see that it's not possible.

Muffin Man, you have a twisted mind. I would stop playing violent video games if I were you. And yes I'm being completely serious here, although you may not go on a killing spree as some morons *cough* might suggest, I do believe your sense of violence and how your mind works has been effected. I suspect you are young too, which would make you further susceptable to this.
 
he could be dead...just sitting in the tree rotting...does anybody know if the kid is still alive?
 
Mabye he's actually just dead?.....anyone checked his vital signs?
The insense would certainly cover the smell of month old dead flesh.

Well whatever he's doing, he's wasting his time, i have more understanding than he'll ever have.

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Kamikazie said:
he could be dead...just sitting in the tree rotting...does anybody know if the kid is still alive?
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Damn you got there first :)
 
I vote for him already being dead.

short recoil said:
Well whatever he's doing, he's wasting his time, i have more understanding than he'll ever have.
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Care to enlighten the rest of us?
 
In the first test he was also bitten by a snake - three months after he began the meditation.

The second snake-bite episode led to increased curiosity.

After being bitten, Bamjan was said to have asked his aides to put a curtain around him.

"In less than a week he asked us to take the curtain away," Prem Lama said.

Now another curtain is to be drawn around Bamjan - for the scientific examination.
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He has said stuff, and some have said he has been drinking some milky substance that the tree roots give off.

Also they are going to conduct a scientific study of him.
 
I didn't mean the religion is a load of crap, I ment the kid sitting there for 6 months without food or water? C'mon can you seriously believe that?
 
Dog-- said:
I didn't mean the religion is a load of crap, I ment the kid sitting there for 6 months without food or water? C'mon can you seriously believe that?
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Nah, I don't go for it. Wait... There's an old Buddha!?

(okay, that didn't make a lot of sense, but leave me alone. I'm tired.)
 
Buddhism is a philosophy, not a religion. They don't worship anyone.

Anyone remember when the reincarnated Dalai Llama was three different people? And one of them was a boy from Seattle? Too bad his parents were devout catholics.
 
*snip* Oops, wrong thread. Peace. Don't know how that happened.
 
i wanna be Buddha, but i think i have ADD, so the whole meditating for six months thing just wouldn;t work out.... *sigh*
 
Muffin Man said:
way to go and diss on a whole religion there =\
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Where's Absinthe? I like that guy. Dissing religion is his raison d'etre.
 
Shakermaker said:
In another coincidence, his mother is named Maya Devi, which was also the Buddha's name.
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Um, wasn't the Buddha's name Siddhartha Guatama?
 
bvasgm said:
I vote for him already being dead.

Care to enlighten the rest of us?
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you want your head to explode?
 
Why would he want his head to explode?
 
That's really cool. Weird if he has gone this long without any food or water.
 
Random factoid - the other day, Kirovman managed to convince me that you were dead, Absinthe. It was a weird moment.

-Angry Lawyer
 
O_o

Did he make a cool story? Like, did I spontaneously combust with acid?
 
Cool if true - sad if he's dead.

At least he'll be enlightened either way.
 
Absinthe said:
O_o

Did he make a cool story? Like, did I spontaneously combust with acid?
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It was a weird situation. Kirovman alluded to it "Absinthe died today", and then Korebolter questioned it. And I said "Yeah, liver faliure. Drinking does that to you."

And then Kirovman said "Crikey, he was so young, and all. Its really weird when someone you've spoken to on the net dies".

At that moment, pangs of "Holy shit, I just made a joke about somebody dieing, and he might actually be dead! D:"

Freaky moment. We later found you were still alive.

-Angry Lawyer
 
You can do some crazy shit when meditating, he's probably levitating right now.
 
You can't become enlightened simply through meditation. Sure you'll reach a hightened state of awareness of your mind and things around you, but there's more to it than meditation.

And the kid is clearly dead. Or blind/deaf/dumb...
 
The one who started it all was indeed Siddhartha Gautama, though.
 
This thread needs a bump since there is quite a lot of news about the alledged new Buddha.

Buddha Boy went missing a couple of days ago. One morning he was gone and people feared he was abducted. Yesterday he visited some of his loyal followers though. He left the spot he was meditating because he couldn't find peace anymore there. Not so strange considering the fact that he was visited by hundreds of people every day. Buddha Boy now supposedly went deep into the forest to meditate and won't appear again until 2012.
 
I find it interesting but pointless. Any reason to surviving for six months without food or water? Proving to thyself maybe?
 
Shakermaker said:
This thread needs a bump since there is quite a lot of news about the alledged new Buddha.

Buddha Boy went missing a couple of days ago. One morning he was gone and people feared he was abducted. Yesterday he visited some of his loyal followers though. He left the spot he was meditating because he couldn't find peace anymore there. Not so strange considering the fact that he was visited by hundreds of people every day. Buddha Boy now supposedly went deep into the forest to meditate and won't appear again until 2012.
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But wait, did he drink or eat or whatever?
 
I also found a vid of Buddha Boy's reappearance yesterday. Link. It's Dutch but the video speaks for itself.

Oh and Wikipedia has a good page on Buddha Boy.



vegeta897 said:
But wait, did he drink or eat or whatever?
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Not known. If I were him I would have gotten into disguise and visited the local restaurant to have a grand feast of a meal.


Black Mesa corp said:
I find it interesting but pointless. Any reason to surviving for six years without food or water? Proving to thyself maybe?
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corrected

And welcome to the wonderful world of fasting. It's a millennia old tradition over on the Indian subcontinent. People that fast (or do other wonderful feats like standing upright for 12 years) want to prove the strength of their mind. With it they can even overcome basic needs like food and drink. The wonderful thing about it though is that when doctors have check people that have fasted, they actually seem reasonably healthy, considering what they have gone through.
 
This fascinates me. Buddhism in part, but mostly the effects of intense meditation on the body. Quite frankly, I'm hesitant to write it off as impossible- there's some crazy shit out there.
 
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