Meditate for living?

[Sourzu]

I'm watching a nice documentary about some buddha boy that meditates without any water or food for years?
How long can this boy have been training meditation to succeed? or do he something else? He maybe eats and drinks when he meditate, in his mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29clGMWU84

[Selea]

I'm watching a nice documentary about some buddha boy that meditates without any water or food for years?
How long can this boy have been training meditation to succeed? or do he something else? He maybe eats and drinks when he meditate, in his mind?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v29clGMWU84

One thing you can be sure of is that he is not a reincarnation of Buddha. Buddha preached the middle way and he thougth a practice as what the boy is doing as not meaning much.

Fake or not fake (btw he moves while meditating and they are gentle movements, so he is not in Samadhi and neither in Dhyana) it doesn't really matter much. Doing a thing as that serves nothing.

[Sourzu]

Okays, I just watched all 5 episodes. They said reason why he moved is that he was balanced something. If just sitting still it damages body or something cus of the pressure or whatever it was.
Yeah it can also be fake ofc, but however they filmed over 90 hours(?)

[Selea]

Okays, I just watched all 5 episodes. They said reason why he moved is that he was balanced something. If just sitting still it damages body or something cus of the pressure or whatever it was.
Yeah it can also be fake ofc, but however they filmed over 90 hours(?)

I didn't say it is a false in what he is doing, I just said that the boy is not in Samadhi or Dhyana (that would be the only redeeming thing about all of it, albeit not in full).  

Lowering the functions of the organs to very minimal inputs it's not so difficult, you can do it also with hypnosis. However, it serves nothing at all in itself, apart letting others see your "miracle".

[Sourzu]

I didn't say it is a false in what he is doing, I just said that the boy is not in Samadhi or Dhyana (that would be the only redeeming thing about all of it, albeit not in full).  

Lowering the functions of the organs to very minimal inputs it's not so difficult, you can do it also with hypnosis. However, it serves nothing at all in itself, apart letting others see your "miracle".

Ahh ok
Well, when I said buddha boy I meant that he's buddhist and a boy, not a special known person like god or whoever you named.

[blis]

However, it serves nothing at all in itself

How can you know that without having done it?

[Selea]

How can you know that without having done it?

From a practical pow: if you are immortal do you worry about how you can live an year more? If you can reach the summit do you care about reaching only the middle?

From a "karma" pow: thinking no action better than action is a matter of duality. While there's no difference between a thing and another the nature of men is "to go", as for all the universe.

From a mystic pow: a man takes almost all his life to learn how to walk in the water so he can cross the river to meet some beautiful girls, while all the others simply swin across and enjoy them on the other side. Surely it will be a so great consolation making see all the others before dying how he can now walk on the water, isn't it?