'Buddha Boy' comes into contact, disappears again

[The Straight Story]

'Buddha Boy' comes into contact, disappears again
Nepaleyes Report
Hetauda, March 19

'Buddha Boy' Ram Bahadur Bomjan, who had disappeared mysteriously from his meditating site in Ratanpuri village of Bara district nine days ago, came into contact on Sunday briefly before disappearing again.


Bomjan returned to the jungles to meditate after coming into contact with seven members of Tapoban Preservation Committee south-west of his meditating site, Bed Bahadur Thing, chairman of the committee, told our correspondent in Hetauda.


According to Thing, Bomjan said he left the meditating place due to increasing disturbance and asked them not to search for him and worry about him.


The committee later showed media workers a visual clip in which Bomjan said he will be meditating for six years in the jungles of Nepal.

http://www.nepaleyes.com/read.php?topic=headlines&id=1736

[NMDemDist2]

1. six years? 2012 huh?

just saying... :shrug:

[beam me up scottie]

4. I hope he packed a lunch.

:evilgrin:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. More meditation.... less crime....

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFDE153CF93BA1575BC0A965958260

Contrary to Dr. Park, the project was set up as a scientific experiment to test an important hypothesis: that reductions in social stress could reduce urban crime. More than 40 research studies testing this hypothesis have been done in the last decade and published in leading peer-reviewed journals. A 27-member independent scientific review board was set up to monitor our Washington experiment and evaluate its outcome. Preliminary data indicate total violent crime in Washington dropped significantly during the eight-week experiment, as predicted. JOHN S. HAGELIN Director, Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 19, 1993

[varkam]

3. It wouldn't surprise me..

given that there's been a spike in crimes set off by "mean mugging" or dissing or whatnot...maybe if we just took a deep breath and closed our eyes for a few minutes, we wouldn't pull the trigger.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

15. My husband did a very non-scientific experiment with

meditation. He was living in a part of Ft. Worth TX where the crack houses were in the next block, most of the houses on his block were abandoned, lots of break ins and violence happening. Anyway, he moves in. In about three months, things have changed. The crack houses have moved away, families have moved into the abandoned houses, and kids feel safe enough to play on the street in the evenings. In meditation one evening, he wondered about this change--and then realized, through inner guidance, that his meditation had had an effect.

Interesting that when he left, things started deteriorating again in that neighborhood.....

[soothsayer]

5. Glad he's on the case! What on earth will the time lords be up

to when they return?

[charlie]

6. I've gotta say

while the no-food-and-water bit is bunk, if he sat in full daylight view of the public for 10 straight months, then he's the real deal. No dilettante, that boy means business.

[XxRouninxX]

7. Samsara

See the whole "no food no water" thing is the public creations of our own conditioning.

Granted if you follow the story in detail, there are questions relating to Bomjom's brother who "managed" the community that devloped around him before his disappearance. Lots of money was made, rumors were spread.

Plus anyone who's read any buddhist sutra's knows that its full of beams of light bursting from chests, levitation and other such things, although theset hings mostly come from the monks and thinkers post-gotama. Gotama's words themselves are typically irregardless of discrimination unless skillfully used to express a concept to someone who hasn't trancended duality.

Meditation slows down everything about the mind/body.. slowing down your metabolism will require alot less food and water. Perhaps the boy drank at night, perhaps he didn't. I wouldn't be suprised fi the boy ate once a month and drank once a week.

And to be honest, with some of the awe-inspiring things ive seen meditation do, perhaps the boy just didn't eat or drink.

Do your research (i dont have any links right now im sorry) and you will find out about an indian ascetic (who lives now) who claims he hasn't eaten or drank anything since his enlightenment at 8 years old.

Scientists observed him in a room for 10 days straight. Finally, they discovered someone that sunlight was reacting with his mucos, and calorific particles in the air, and creating a digestible ball of goop in the back of his throat, that becomes his life sustaining

Perhaps its real perhaps its not.

Someone correct me if im wrong but Shakyamuni Gotama Buddha fasted for the most 49 days (i beleive), according to traditional story, that is.


What I do know is that when iw as 16, i could sit still for 10 minutes, let alone 6 months.

Then again the brother wouldn't allow filming at night time, who knows.

Just as I told myself "A real buddha wouldn't be fond of the kind of corruption and confusion surrounding his meditaton" he said "there is no peace here" and disappeared.

I pray for his return in (may?) 2012, and should he come back preaching the dharma as it is relative to todays world, i may just seek him out.

[charlie]

8. "These things come mostly from the monks...

and thinkers post-gotama..."

Isn't that always the case? As with Jesus, there are no contemporaneous accounts of Guatama. All we have are recollections that are certainly tinged with agendas. Hagiography and embellishments. Hell, you can watch the elevation of mortals into super-mythic status in recent times, e.g., the inflation of vapid, mediocre Reagan into the iconic quintessential American. Or Parson Weems' recasting of Washington into the immaculate paragon of virtue.

As for the boy not eating... he's eating. And drinking. Maybe he's sustaining himself on an austere regimen, but he has his limits. Jesus and Siddartha had their limits too, they both died. As for the Indian ascetic who lived on the rarified diet of sunlight (which I don't buy for a minute), he was nonetheless bound to the demands of the flesh, dependent on external physical sustenance, like the rest of us.

You're waiting for the return of Guatama? He's not coming. By his own reckoning, Guatama was a living fiction that ended over 2 and a half millennia ago. The Buddha, on the other hand, is before you, around you, and within you. You couldn't tweeze yourself apart from the Buddha if you tried. Quit waiting.

[XxRouninxX]

10. Actually

I believe you misunderstood me and perhaps the whole of buddhist ethics and philosophy. What I actually said was:

I pray for his return in (may?) 2012, and should he come back preaching the dharma as it is relative to todays world, i may just seek him out.

He being Bomjon (not Gotama), the dharma being an insight into the nature of things that may help people live happier lives, and by seeking him out i mean I may visit his homeland and speak or listen with or to him.

"The Buddha, on the other hand, is before you, around you, and within you." One who speaks such wisdom should not partake in such petty thoughts and speech such as "he's not coming" "there is him" "Quit waiting" or even any such discriminations. So perhaps if you would like to shar eand collaborate ideas you could make better use of your words.

[charlie]

12. Yes, I misunderstood you

I thought you hoped for the return of Guatama in 2012. You wouldn't be the first or only. For whatever reason, 2012 is a date that looms large in the eschatology of many current esoteric worldviews. But nonetheless, I made an unwarranted presumption.

But inflating a mere miscommunication into my misunderstanding of "perhaps the whole of buddhist ethics and philosophy"? Lecturing me about "such discriminations" and "petty thoughts"? Speech IS discrimination. Thoughts ARE discrimination. They're all petty. Affectations AHOY!!

I smell a whiff of self-aggrandizement.

[XxRouninxX]

13. yes

perhaps you are correct. After I posted I thought I could have left it at a simple explanation of misunderstandment, but I took your comments personally, and such does the buddha teach the arising of suffering thru ignorance.

My Apologies

[cyborg_jim]

9. Hmm

Scientists observed him in a room for 10 days straight. Finally, they discovered someone that sunlight was reacting with his mucos, and calorific particles in the air, and creating a digestible ball of goop in the back of his throat, that becomes his life sustaining

My bullshit meter is going ape-shit.

[XxRouninxX]

14. I doubt it too, just sharing things i saw -NT

[greyl]

11. Another R/T thread on Ram :

Nov 2005 - March 2006
here