What is Reddit's opinion of Rainbow Body and Resurrection: Spiritual Attainment, the Dissolution of the Material Body, and the Case of Khenpo A Chö?

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Catholic priest wrote a book about the miracles in Tibetan Buddhism.

https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Body-Resurrection-Attainment-Dissolution/dp/1583947957

Tibetan Buddhism has more miracles than Christianity.

Even a Catholic priest wrote a book about them:

https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Body-Resurrection-Attainment-Dissolution/dp/1583947957

Tibetan Buddhism has more miracles than Christianity.

Even a Catholic priest wrote a book about them:

https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Body-Resurrection-Attainment-Dissolution/dp/1583947957

Tibetan Buddhism has more miracles than Christianity.

Your own Catholic priest Francis Tiso wrote a book about them.

https://www.amazon.com/Rainbow-Body-Resurrection-Attainment-Dissolution/dp/1583947957

> To equate the creation of the smartphone to various magical beliefs is quite the stretch, in my opinion. Literally every step in the manufacturing process, from raw materials to completed smartphone, can and is directly observable. The principles on which smartphones operate are all testable and experimentally observable.

I feel like you're not responding to the theme of what I was saying.

Magical activities are too profound, and their teachings are too complex, for me to think that they were merely an accident or misunderstanding.

Magicians didn't "misunderstand" their way into developing tummo any more than scientists misunderstood their way into inventing smartphones.

Tummo and smartphones are both results of thousands of years of trial and error, examining nature, testing experiments and sharing the results with others.

And tummo isn't just about raising body heat; it has magical effects such as the manipulation of subtle body energies and the development of psychic powers.

For as long as people have been practicing tummo, they have been experiencing these magical effects. It's not a Tibetan urban legend; it's a normal part of the practice that everyone is expected to accomplish.

Tummo is merely the most public example the fruits created by this ancient process experimentation.

For some reason Tibetans chose to reveal tummo to the world, and not other things.

>If you can demonstrate any magic whatsoever, the James Randi Foundation has $1 million for you. Many of these magical abilities should be trivial to prove if someone actually possesses the ability to perform them.

>Telekinesis -- let JRF set up an experiment and prove it. It would not only be groundbreaking, you'd undoubtedly be helping humankind. We could save billions of lives with telekinesis and other claimed magical abilities.

>If your counter is that anyone who can perform telekinesis has lost the desire to demonstrate it to others who are skeptical, I think that's awfully convenient, and would make them a terrible person. If you had the ability to help billions, wouldn't you?

This is an excellent question: why does the occult need to be secret?

There are several reasons.

One reason is the occult is dangerous, and so it's kept secret in order to protect people from naive people from dabbling with it and hurting themselves or others. I think it's easy to imagine that if you do tummo the wrong way, you can really hurt yourself.

A second reason is to protect the teachings from disappearing.

In Tibetan Buddhism there is a practice that causes your body to dissolve into light when you die. It's called achieving the rainbow body, and while it is very rare, it has been recorded in Tibetan society several times, including modern times.

There are even non-Buddhists Tibetologists who write about it, like Francis Tiso.

What would happen if the teaching became public?

People would start making "new versions" of it that lack the proper magical instruction.

Religious zealots would burn books and kill Buddhists, believing they are aligned with Satan.

China would get involved and screw things up even more.

With all of that mayhem happening, after a few hundred years the correct teaching would be lost, and then people would start saying that there never was a literal rainbow body, that it was just a metaphor.

A third reason is that knowing magic is real doesn't stop humans from being horrible.

For the past 2000 years a large portion of humanity has believed that a very powerful magician existed: Jesus.

And what has come of that?

Thousands of years of war and oppression and hatred, because many Christians thought that that's how they should honor Jesus.

Tibet is another example of the horribleness humans possess regardless of magical knowledge.

Even though they had rainbow body and all sorts of other amazing stuff, their society was still plagued by selfishness, hypocrisy, and political power grabs.

Humans are always going to be stupid until they become enlightened, but history shows that revealing precious magical secrets to the public makes the stupidity worse.

A fourth reason is that when you are at such an advanced magical level that you can do miracles, your perspective on the world changes.

You don't care about fame or money.

You don't care that skeptics think magic doesn't exist.

You're too busy fathoming secrets of the universe.

You don't resent the fact that they doubt magic, because you understand that they are doing the best they can, and many people are better off not knowing magic exists at this stage of their evolution.

A fifth reason is that revealing secrets can have bad consequences for you.

Revealing secrets can weaken you magical power.

Remember the rainbow body stuff?

Tibetan Buddhism has spirits called dharma protectors that try to prevent all of that bad stuff from happening, and they will harm you.

In summary, the James Randi Foundation's prize is nothing to an adept; lineages needs to be protected, and an adept's compassion for others would prevent them from igniting a butterfly effect of mayhem.