Is It Possible To Attain Psychic Ability Through Meditation? – Modern Koans

Of course you should never have had to ask this question. All the psychic meditators out there would have answered it before you had to expend the effort to ask the question. Unless of course they are just a very impolite group of people.

Sarcasm aside, if being psychic was the ability to read the thoughts of others, I would have great pity upon anyone with that ability. It is likely that they would go insane.

Consider this little koan:

How would you distinguish the thoughts of others from your own?

When we meditate, we sit and watch thoughts arise, pass through, and dissipate across the sky of mind.

What exactly is it about these thoughts that make them yours? Are they yours because they are in a certain voice? Or because they passed through the patch of sky that you just happen to be watching?

Here's a koan: If you were psychic, how would you distinguish the thoughts of others from your own?
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What if you could experimentally demonstrate the same thought passing through someone else’s mind? Would that mean one or both of you was psychic? Neither of you could tell. So what difference would it make?

Is psychic ability real? Why do the Buddhist teachings even mention clairvoyance? Is it bunk or is there something to it?

I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

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