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Have you ever witnessed an exorcism ritual??
Tavs
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If you have personally witnessed an exorcism, what are your thoughts on what you saw?
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Yes. Also done them.
Form of theatrics.
You?
No, can’t say that I have… I’m not really interested in that kind of thing.
I’ve seen @federica exorcise a few demons from the newbuddhist forum, and they don’t go quietly. It can get scary at times!..
On a more serious note:
Yes through meditation. Transforming one’s own mind by confronting internal demons like greed, anger, and delusion is a form of self-exorcism. These unwholesome negative energies possess the mind and cloud perception.
Thank you for your comments everyone. I've never seen an exorcism myself. I personally think demons are both psychological and also physiological. I say physiological because if the 'demon' is a result of trauma or has been around for many years, I think the psychological effects then have such an effect on the nervous system, the 'demon' then has physical effects too. However, I don't know anyone who claims to be or have been possessed or any exorcists. So I wanted to know if anyone had a first hand account of an exorcism. Lobster, what was your motivation for doing the exorcism? Shoshin, yes I think meditation can do that and perhaps the exorcism ritual adds a physical element to it?
Just can not help it. I am an exorcism.
There as Shoshin1 mentions, different elements familiar to Tantrika.
Ultimately we are literally a catalyst forcing people to confront the very nature of our multiplicities. This is a 'high' calling and does little for our reputation but it is the nature of wrathful and more supposedly kind encounters.
In other words we are both angel/demon and The Middle Way. No longer muggles or wizarding folk. No longer the stream or the far shore. We are the bridge. Knocked down but always built. The paradox of a duality of four Noble Truths in One.
Jesus compels you!
🙂
@Tavs
I think exorcising Klingons might be more my style but this might be of interest...
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/exorcising-body-politic_king-m
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice
Thanks very much! I didn't know about any of that! Tibetan Buddhism is so different to the other Buddhisms, much more visceral. I'd heard of Lion's Roar but I didn't actually know what it was. I really like the imagery in the legend. There's some really complex ritual / sympathetic magic going on there! The contrast of violence and peace and the individual and the nation is really interesting.
I'm not really a trekkie but can you tell me more about exorcising Klingons?
@lobster is something of a court jester. Don't take at least half of it literally.
I took part in what was supposed to be an exorcism. It was in a Pentecostal setting, so there wasn't any real ritual involved. A lot of shouting and speaking in tongues. It was pretty intense. Did it work? Who knows?
Don't be so hard on our favorite crustacean! He/She/It can't help it. In a former life, [appropriate pronoun] was whatever the opposite of a Bodhisattva is. [appropriate pronoun] came upon the Buddha eating cornflakes. The antibodhi pee'd in the Buddha's cornflakes. This was such bad karma, that a gazillion generations, couldn't purify it. Lobster is an avatar of that same karmic yadda yadda.
Birth after birth as someone just like Lobster. The horror of it. I think there's a Hell Realm that this antibodhi rules over, called the Hell of Being Lobster.
> Thanks very much!
You are welcome. As you may notice, we all are in both the heaven and hell realms of our creation/karma and with those possessed with knowing what others require...
The process of ridding our own demons/impediments is the Buddhist path. Everything begins and ultimately ends with a new beginning...
Well, I think there is a fair amount of crazy wisdom mixed in there, a bit of a savant is our lobster.
they can be quite the head turner 😃
This is what I had in mind saying court jester, that's sort of the role they played. Not just a fool.
Like a holy trickster?
Indeed. But the court jester was more a ‘wise fool’ than a holy man, which was why I felt the reference to Tibetan-style ‘crazy wisdom’ might be closer to the mark. Anyway…
That comes pretty close, yes. 😄
..And quite uplifting, so I have heard