The super powers of meditation

Who hasn’t heard of the superpowers displayed by great spiritual practitioners and meditation masters? And who wouldn’t secretly want to get them?

Our world has opened up to different techniques, and with it have come incredible stories of Tibetan yogis able to generate such body heat that they can survive sitting for days on ice, without any clothing needed. Even Hollywood has come on board, big time and long ago. After all, wouldn’t meditation, provided we do it in the right way, give us the supernatural abilities shown in the Matrix trilogy: dodging the bullets, mind-travelling, foreseeing the future?

Nothing whatsoever can stop you: The powers that are super

Because when talking about meditation, one thing is for sure. If you meditate regularly and wholeheartedly (as if your hair were burning), you will be guaranteed to:

>>Feel love and compassion for complete strangers.

>>Understand what your cat is telling you.

>> Lose any appetite for personal ambitions.

>> Lose your ability to differentiate between waking state and dreams.

>> Pray for the life of a mosquito.

>> Taste an orange as if for the very first time.

>> Still, argue with your significant other – yet find it increasingly more like a game, not a war.

>> Stop dead in a beam of sunlight, with a blessed smile on your face.

>> See through death.

>> Laugh out loud at the concept of superpowers.

But being a human being, you are probably feeling frustrated when told about superpowers of this kind. Being a human being, you’re probably a bit irritated at the moment, feeling kind of cheated on and muttering to yourself, ''But hey, what about all the REAL magical abilities and feats listed at the beginning — the flying above mountain tops, the reading of other people’s minds? Are you just pulling my leg or is it your way of saying that these do not exist?’

Are the supernatural powers for real?

No one is trying to pull your leg. The short and simple answer to your question would be: ''Yes they are for real.'' All these mind-boggling super powers do indeed exist. Perhaps not in all those crazy shapes and varieties described in urban myth and popular culture, but nevertheless. And meditating earnestly will, quite probably, get you acquainted with a few of those powers.

Yet there’s a reason why we’ve dragged you right and left before coming to this. As with any other short and simple answer, it hides treacherous traps and could be easily misinterpreted. It is, in other words, quite a dangerous answer.

To proceed with any chance of solving the riddle of your life, you have to keep this “Yes, the super powers do exist” tightly wrapped into the following. at all times, and no matter what happens or does not happen.

1. Going into meditation in search of any supernatural abilities is the clearest indication that you are heavily caught in the cobwebs of your ego.

You are trying to boost yourself, either to get direct power over others (“I can do things you people cannot even dream of!”), or to unravel some of your personal knots (anguish, boredom, depression, insomnia, impotence of mind and body, you name it). And please be careful: even when you think that you want the super powers for the sake of others only, and not for your own glory — this is NEVER the case. How can your mind, without yet having entered the realm of the Eternal True Nature, have even the faintest idea about what might help others?! It simply doesn’t. But being a thinking, reasoning and calculating machine, it is very good at slipping in suggestions which go towards augmenting your Name and Fame.

2. Superpowers follow naturally from patient, non-desiring efforts.

They are a by-product, a tool like anything else: you can use them for good or for bad, there is nothing really special or revolutionary or world-changing in them. Some great saints and masters who have graced this earth have made ample use of those powers and abilities; others have walked right through them as if they did not exist at all. If you consider this fact very carefully, then you will realize that there’s nothing “must-have” about the acquiring or displaying of these supernatural powers.

What is absolutely inevitable and necessary on the path to awakening, however, is this attitude: “Whether I seem to go backwards like a crab or soar across the plains of many a mystical world, may I continue sitting humbly and earnestly as a solid unmoving mountain.”