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A Burmese woman I know once told me that after the time of the Buddha, after Buddhism had spread to Southeast Asia, the skies in Sri Lanka were crowded with flying arahants. It was recommended for bhikhus to first attain nibanna and then develop all the magical powers as they wished. I don’t have a scriptural or written source. This older lady grew up hearing discourses from monks and reading lots of practise books and stories from the Burmese literature of which there are many.
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I wanted to share this book title with you for 1 year now but it kept missing.
Dipa ma is a great thervada Buddhist monk. She was trained by Burmese lineage masters. She taught me few things astrally, and she used to visit higher worlds from being in the physical world.
She told me once "Even Brahma world is not worth to strive for because even that will decay one day". She know my inner objective and advised me to strive further.
Her Bones are full of austerity.
She is called lioness daughter of Buddha. Her story is amazing inspiration for women ascetic.
Very profound ascetic!
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Thank you, Ani, for the link to this book about Dipa Ma. I was going to check it out from a small Buddhist libary at the Yellow Springs Dharma Center in Yellow Springs,Ohio but it was checked out by someone else so I ordered my own copy from Amazon.
Some of the older meditators of the Yellow Springs vipassana group knew Dipa Ma (and Munindraji, her teacher) or know people who knew her. The author, Amy Schmidt, knows people from the Yellow Springs group too. So I had heard about Dipa Ma, but let me say, this book is informative and beautifully written. It brings one energetically close to Dipa Ma.
Apart from the psychic skills she mastered, her loving kindness and simplicity seems to have impacted those around her the most. She was a lay woman who succeeded to the highest goal. That said, near the end of the book, she recommends doing intensive retreats, which she did, in order to achieve the stages of enlighenment and insight.
Another wonderful aspect that Dipa Ma points out, is that she herself simply had faith in the teachings and felt that it had something for her. She didn't study theory and philosophy. She practiced with faith and it carried her to the highest goal. Also, she was not shy to say that she feels women have an advantage in meditation because their hearts and minds are softer and more pliable,
The book has a scarcity of theory and philosophy, is written in simple language, mostly comprised of recollections students had about their interactions with Dipa Ma, and has some questions and answers.
Here is the book link:
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Thanks Marcia.
I will check it out.
Dipa ma is indeed very advanced soul, she has so much disinterest in the creation that once she told not to aim for Brahma world as it is also goes down into dissolution.
She is a lioness daughter of Buddha as her followers call her lovingly.
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