Buddhism: Watch Out for the Woo Woo

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Watch Out for the Woo Woo Mar 26th 2013, 18:57 Theravadin monk Shravasti Dhammika writes about out-of-body experiences and similar phenomena during meditation. He said that after a similar inexplicable experience, "For the next few weeks every one of  my meditation  was a failure.  I longed  to get into a deep stable concentration so I  could have a similar 'psychic' experience again. Of course this hope was the very thing that disrupted my meditation and blocked it from happening." This is the very reason people are often told to let go of expectations of some "woo-woo" experience during meditation. In Japanese Zen, "supernatural" experiences during meditation are called makyo, which means "realm of devils." In truth, usually hallucinations or "supernatural" experiences are neither good nor bad. Sometimes they're just the mind playing tricks on itself; sometimes they may be a side effect of intensive mind training.  But it's tempting to chase after them and attach to them, and that can be a fetter.

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