During Buddha's time,Bodhgaya was called Uruvela. It is here that the famous Mahabodhi Temple stands. King Asoka was said to be the first to build a temple here and henceforth, it became a place of focus for Buddhist pilgrims for more than 1500 years until the 13th century when the Buddhist viharas and shrines were devastated by Muslims. When a Tibetan pilgrim, Dharmasvamin visited Bodhgaya in 1234 AD, only four monks were left in the vihara and one said that all have fled in fear of the Turushka soldiery. As Buddhism further declined in India, the Burmese came in to rescue the decaying Mahabodhi Temple. That was during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Mahabodhi Temple was again forgotten thereafter and a wandering Hindu ascetic, Mahant Gosain Giri, later took control of the temple and since 1590 AD, the temple was under Hindu control. In 1861, Cunningham found the Mahant and the followers indulging in non-Buddhist ceremonies there and Sir Edwin, author of The Light of Asia, observed that Shrada, a Hindu last rite where mantras and verses are chanted on behalf of the dead to free the soul, was performed there and precious ancient relics of carved stone inscribed with Sanskrit were left around the area unattended. Just after the surprise Birthday Bash at our hotel, we made off for this temple. It must be about ten and the temple was closing...
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Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya...
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Mahabodhi Temple in Bodhgaya...
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Have a nice day! -himalman :)
In the form of orbs can present visions. It's the result of some advanced techniques. They can be pure and impure. Impure come forced by the mind, pure appear when the Chanels of Wissdom are open.
It's possible, I think, that it happens in the places like this to many persons. They say, there are "Places of Force" all over the world. Positive and negative too. Like Phyramid in Ghisa, others. I know only that they exist.
But in the case of photography... I don't know.
But I began to think seriously about it only about 10 years ago, when they became too... strange, invadent, I don't know to explain.
That is why I looked for explanations in different religions to know, what behaviour I have to have with them. Because they take offence very easily and can create problems in the life. So, I try to satisfy them.
That is why I know that there is not death of the being. After the death of the body the life continues and the being saffers very much that you don't see it, don't understand it. I feel these emotions very well. And -you know how it is- when you want but can't help, don't understand what to do... It's terrible feeling.
There are more great spirits and you can call them telling mantras unopportunetly.
So, said our Lama, imagine: this very powerful, not very patient and good being is sleeping, you begin to call him (unconsciously because you don't know about it and can't see him). He comes to you, asks you "what do you want from me?" and you -because you don't see, don't hear, don't feel- make a stupid -from his point of view. What would YOU feel if somebody made the same for you? He could be offensed and make something bad to you in this case.
Once I had courage to ask our Bon Lama about my experience with a tree. I was sure he will say bad about me. Buddhist Lama in our Institute did not recognize even animals as the same souls like humans -what can I say you about plants? (Sincerely, it was the reason I left the Institute -because I feel the life in other way, and pure philosophy was not enough for me)
But Bon Lama was absolutely not surprised hearing my question and explained me what I have to do.
There are different planes of existence in buddhist philosophy (different as number in every school too) but I think they reffere to our actual existance. Those are states of mind, of our continuum. One lives all his life as a hungry spirit, other feels all the life as evil ecc ecc.
So, like different schools in Christianesimus. What changes for me if I cross myself with 2 or with 3 fingers? What changes for me if the prist has golden or simple cup on his table? It was important in 1500 to protest against papst. Why have I to kill an other person for this reason TODAY?
About the tree... I had something like "special relation" with it, and it came to me for the last greeting when it was saw down (I knew about it only a day after). I was sure about what I feel (I had different experiences like that before that case), but could not believe that it's possible with a plant too. But our Lama had no doubts that it's possible.
I don't like to write about these experiences. Persons that do not have them are not ready to listen to them. We have not to provoke manifestations of bad karma in other persons.
By the way,(excuse me if I rememer it to you) you never write the exact address of the posts in comments -only general address of the blog and do not want to write so as I explained to you once.
It's very uncomfortable, first -because
1-you see the address broken in comment and, if it's general,
2-it's unpossible to find the post you are speaking about. I tryed to find the comment of a young man you wrote about before, but could not find it. Unfortunatelly.
Second, if you write the address in the right way, you ad your link to the page. If you don't do it,your link is lost for search engines. And this is bad too.
Excuse me, once more.
About the tree, it's interesting. You have a different perception from other people, I suppose and perhaps, you are lucky! You know more than others. Maybe, I 'll do a post on a tree soon but I have to find an old photo first and perhaps, take new photo.
And thanks for the comment about linking. Sometimes, I just don't think about it. It's so convenient to just give a general link which we remember well, not the specific link but as it say, it's very uncomfortable, there seems to be a break somewhere, which is true. That's why I say above, you can cross with one finger or two as long as it does not cause an adverse effect on others; in my case, I left a general comment; and it has an adverse effect on otherw which is bad. Sorry!
Anyway, I found BMX's comment at http://dhammadelights.blogspot.com/2008/02/ghost.html#comments interesting:
bmxforever said...
I may be only 18 but I believe in spirits. I have been around them my whole life. Just about every house I have lived has been the home to a ghost as well. Take for example my gradpas house. My aunt saw a jar of penutbutter fly from the counter to the table. She was the only one there. My gradpa had a shop in an old hotel around where I live and he would go to open shop and all his musical stuff would be playing. So how can I not believe.
One man had a Ficus in his flat. He treated it with great attention for different years. Once he find a girl-friend that he wanted to marry and she moved to him and they began to live together. After some time the woman began to feel bad and had diffrent disturbs, I don't remember precisely, but I think psychological and in health. And when the doctors made exams, they found that that ficus began to produce substances that damaged this woman (only her! so it could distinguish what chemical substance is bad for her, but not damage the man!). To catch the woman from the house.
Than there was written about how the trees speak between them. If worms begin to eat trees in one part of the forest, the trees in other part of the forest have the protective reaction too, so they know, that trees in other part of the forest have this problem.
Ah, every gardener knows that if you speak to your plant with lovely words, the plant grows better... Something begins to emerge in my memory about this research, when I think about it.
Maybe you know more facts from that research, I write it only to remember to you, and it would be interesting if you know more about plant-communication.
By the way, many ancestral religions recognize that it's possible "communicate" with plants. They say, if you know, what plant is good for you, you can go in the forest, huge the tree and you will have more forces or you can heal something -it's really so, this know everybody. I do not know much about it. I know that some healers use this technique -this is only information I have.