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Monks.say the wackiest things.....
Bunks
Australia Veteran
I recently heard a monk say in a talk he was giving that he honestly believed that human beings lived five million years ago and that, at that time, had a lifespan of 65,000 years!
I read in a book from the same tradition that they believed people used to be able to fly!
What's the wackiest thing you've come across in your practice?
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Hmmmm...that aids can be cured with olive oil or lemon juice, and that contraceptives are the work of the devil.
(My 'ex-practice'.... really. Hardly surprising it's 'ex'....)
That people from the continent west of Mount Meru are made of butter as opposed to the people from the southern continent that are made out of meat.
That one of the possessions they were thinking of hanging onto after ordaining was their AK-47,but perhaps this shouldn't apply since they were not yet ordained at that point.
At a retreat with Lama Dudjom Dorje, someone who lived far out of town said he was feeling guilty about driving his car into town to study the dharma (he also attends twice weekly sangha meetings, he is about 20 miles out of town). He explained his guilt was over environmental concerns, he didn't want his love of Buddhism to contribute to global warming.
Lama laughed a big belly laugh and slapped him on the shoulder and said "HA! Do not worry. If we blow up this planet, we will simply be reborn on a new one!"
I don't know what would happen in the case of the destruction of the planet, but his response was just bizarre and no one knew what to say. Very awkward, lol.
Sogyal Rinpoche made us wait. Not cool.
May be they want to say 65000 years ago dinosours used to fly.
I wish that were true but I know that they meant what they said.
@Bunks They might have read all bulky scriptures as it is. And intepreted wrong. There are some monks comes from human society and may be prone to mistakes.
All monks come from human society. And all are prone to mistakes without exception. Even HHDL has (by his own admission) 'made mistakes'.....
I think a lot of it is just translation and language. Some of it is just understanding. I don't think anyone was trying to say it was anything but a mistake. Mistakes can be funny though
My teacher laughs heartily at his all the time 
I don't know the guy, but I very much doubt what he said should be taken at face value. After all, such scruples about burning a rather insignificant amount of fossil fuel in the scope of things could not be expected to be taken seriously by a serious spiritual aspirant —at the expense of common sense. In other words, "To Hell with things like that; first pay attention to things that really matter and the rest will fall into place."
The slap on the shoulder: how Zen-Master like.
Unenlightened monks giving sermons on enlightenment. People listening. Game on.
"Me"
“Kwatz!” It is a sound, found by Zen, that shatters your mind.
Who requires a shattered mind? Puddy kwatz?
Miaow!
Regarding the original question; it was a monk advocating piss drinking ...
http://skepdic.com/urine.html
Keep an eye on the sangha, guys ...
~ He was just taking the piss @lobster
That smoking or drinking alcohol can be made safe by a "purifying" method, very expensive to learn so it must be true!
Ay curumba, these 'Buddhists' ...
I will tell you the free method, which works. Abstention.
Did Chogyam Trungpa tell you this ?
No, it was a Chinese esoteric buddhist school, based in LA.