iddhi造句

• However, it is exceedingly common to encounter the Buddha describing meditative states involving the attainment of such magical powers ( P . " iddhi " ) as the ability to multiply one's body into many and into one again, appear and vanish at will, pass through solid objects as if space, rise and sink in the ground as if in water, walking on water as if land, fly through the skies, touching anything at any distance ( even the moon or sun ), and travel to other worlds ( like the world of Brahma ) with or without the body, among other things, and for this reason the whole of the Buddhist tradition may not be adaptable to a secular context, unless these magical powers are seen as metaphorical representations of powerful internal states that conceptual descriptions could not do justice to.