Buddhist mummies

[Spiderman]

One of the worst ways to go would be buried live. Some Buddhist monks welcomed it as a final means of gaining total victory over the flesh.

Who are the Sokushinbutsu, you ask? The Japanese Buddhist monks who mummified themselves while still alive. The bodies that have been found by archeologists date to between the 12th and 20th centuries AD. But apparently, the process is much older. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about mummifying yourself while still alive, as the Japanese Buddhist monks did.

self-mummification was originally a Taoist practice, and notes that, while the Japanese monks are the most famous self-mummifiers, cases of deliberate self-mummifcation have been recorded in China and India as well."

There’s a lot of talk about the “spiritual goal” as far as the Sokushinbutsu are concerned. "Where sokushinbutsu was concerned, a successful act of self-mummification meant the successful execution of a final spiritual practice,” according to Davis. "If, after an attempt at self-mummification, the attempted practitioner was found decayed, it was taken as a sign that the spiritual goal had not been achieved."

The process of self-mummifcation wasn’t seen as suicide by the Taoists who practiced it, but more a path toward immortality. The Sokushinbutsu, in a similar way, thought of the process as a way to transcend death

They would remain in their mummified state, which was viewed as a death-trance, for 5.67 billion years until they would be called upon to assist Maitreya for the benefit of all humankind,” Davis reports.

So, apparently, you don’t just wake up one day and decide you want to mummify yourself. Sorry for those of you at home with hopes of trying. There’s actually a 3,000-day training process of sorts.
The key element of the process is dietary,” Davis reports. "Japanese ascetics would commonly abstain from cereals, removing wheat, rice, foxtail millet, pros so millet, and soybeans. Instead, they would eat things like nuts, berries, pine needles, tree bark, and resin (which is why the diet of the sokushinbutsu was called mokujikyo, or 'tree-eating.'"

Then, you’re essentially buried alive up to your neck with a little space left for you to breathe, and you kind of just.. wait to die. "Once the ascetic was prepared to attempt to become a sokushinbutsu, it's said he would step into a tiny burial chamber and has himself buried alive, with a small opening to allow air inside the chamber,” Davis writes. "There he would sit, chanting sutra and ringing a bell to signal that he was still alive."
How Japanese Buddhist Monks Mummified Themselves While Alive

Does anyone feel inspired by this epic display of self-discipline? I confess that I found inspiration from it.

 

[metis]

Were the Buddhist mummies found near the Buddhist daddies?

 

[Spiderman]

It makes me feel like I'm not so weird after all.

I wonder if any of them regretted making that decision after it was too late!?

 

[Spiderman]

Were the Buddhist mummies found near the Buddhist daddies?

Oh I get it mummy daddy lol

 

[Spiderman]

Were the Buddhist mummies found near the Buddhist daddies?

Does such acts of self-discipline inspire you in any way?

 

[Jainarayan]

Were the Buddhist mummies found near the Buddhist daddies?

We need a 'groan' emoji.

 

[Spiderman]

If only Donald Trump would have become a Buddhist monk? I think he missed his calling

 

[Jainarayan]

Does such acts of self-discipline inspire you in any way?

Yeah, uh... no. No it doesn't.

 

[Spiderman]

This Thread was an improvement over my thread on Hitler's sexuality at least

 

[metis]

Does such acts of self-discipline inspire you in any way?

If I ask my wife how good I am at being self-disciplined, her laughter likely would go on into infinity. Not my strong suit. Matter of fact, I'm still looking for my strong suit. Would a moderately strong suit do?

 

[Spiderman]

Yeah, uh... no. No it doesn't.

Well at least that lets me feel that if meditation can give these guys the power to bury themselves alive, meditation can give me the power to suffer my lot in life

 

[metis]

We need a 'groan' emoji.

If you weren't such a kiddee.

OK, I'm leaving.

 

[Jainarayan]

I'm still looking for my strong suit. Would a moderately strong suit do?

If it's made of kevlar, sure!

 

[Jainarayan]

This Thread was an improvement over my thread on Hitler's sexuality at least

Polyester thread would be an improvement over that one.

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

Polyester thread would be an improvement over that one.

another groaner, for sure!

 

[sandy whitelinger]

It makes me feel like I'm not so weird after all.

I wonder if any of them regretted making that decision after it was too late!?

"Why didn't I take the blue pill?"

 

[Spiderman]

If Only They had channeled that Zeal into something more productive

 

[Aldrnari]

Seems a bit pointless to me.

Then again, so does much else in life. It goes to show just how powerful the human will is, though. It's able to bend and even break the most basic and essential of animal instincts.

 

[David T]

Seems a bit pointless to me.

Then again, so does much else in life. It goes to show just how powerful the human will is, though. It's able to bend and even break the most basic and essential of animal instincts.

You mean reading and posting about Buddhist mummies on RF is pointless? I think that's breaking some forum rule somewhere!! Although I do have to disagree not everything is pointless it's only an irrational feeling perpetuated by posting on RF About buddhist mummies and then some lame response from some unknown idiot in Internet lala land lecturing you about not everything is pointless., those dudes are idiots.

 

[David T]

View attachment 20025 One of the worst ways to go would be buried live. Some Buddhist monks welcomed it as a final means of gaining total victory over the flesh.

Who are the Sokushinbutsu, you ask? The Japanese Buddhist monks who mummified themselves while still alive. The bodies that have been found by archeologists date to between the 12th and 20th centuries AD. But apparently, the process is much older. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about mummifying yourself while still alive, as the Japanese Buddhist monks did.

self-mummification was originally a Taoist practice, and notes that, while the Japanese monks are the most famous self-mummifiers, cases of deliberate self-mummifcation have been recorded in China and India as well."

There’s a lot of talk about the “spiritual goal” as far as the Sokushinbutsu are concerned. "Where sokushinbutsu was concerned, a successful act of self-mummification meant the successful execution of a final spiritual practice,” according to Davis. "If, after an attempt at self-mummification, the attempted practitioner was found decayed, it was taken as a sign that the spiritual goal had not been achieved."

The process of self-mummifcation wasn’t seen as suicide by the Taoists who practiced it, but more a path toward immortality. The Sokushinbutsu, in a similar way, thought of the process as a way to transcend death

They would remain in their mummified state, which was viewed as a death-trance, for 5.67 billion years until they would be called upon to assist Maitreya for the benefit of all humankind,” Davis reports.

So, apparently, you don’t just wake up one day and decide you want to mummify yourself. Sorry for those of you at home with hopes of trying. There’s actually a 3,000-day training process of sorts.
The key element of the process is dietary,” Davis reports. "Japanese ascetics would commonly abstain from cereals, removing wheat, rice, foxtail millet, pros so millet, and soybeans. Instead, they would eat things like nuts, berries, pine needles, tree bark, and resin (which is why the diet of the sokushinbutsu was called mokujikyo, or 'tree-eating.'"

Then, you’re essentially buried alive up to your neck with a little space left for you to breathe, and you kind of just.. wait to die. "Once the ascetic was prepared to attempt to become a sokushinbutsu, it's said he would step into a tiny burial chamber and has himself buried alive, with a small opening to allow air inside the chamber,” Davis writes. "There he would sit, chanting sutra and ringing a bell to signal that he was still alive."
How Japanese Buddhist Monks Mummified Themselves While Alive

Does anyone feel inspired by this epic display of self-discipline? I confess that I found inspiration from it.View attachment 20026

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[Grandliseur]

View attachment 20025 One of the worst ways to go would be buried live. Some Buddhist monks welcomed it as a final means of gaining total victory over the flesh.

Who are the Sokushinbutsu, you ask? The Japanese Buddhist monks who mummified themselves while still alive. The bodies that have been found by archeologists date to between the 12th and 20th centuries AD. But apparently, the process is much older. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about mummifying yourself while still alive, as the Japanese Buddhist monks did.

self-mummification was originally a Taoist practice, and notes that, while the Japanese monks are the most famous self-mummifiers, cases of deliberate self-mummifcation have been recorded in China and India as well."

There’s a lot of talk about the “spiritual goal” as far as the Sokushinbutsu are concerned. "Where sokushinbutsu was concerned, a successful act of self-mummification meant the successful execution of a final spiritual practice,” according to Davis. "If, after an attempt at self-mummification, the attempted practitioner was found decayed, it was taken as a sign that the spiritual goal had not been achieved."

The process of self-mummifcation wasn’t seen as suicide by the Taoists who practiced it, but more a path toward immortality. The Sokushinbutsu, in a similar way, thought of the process as a way to transcend death

They would remain in their mummified state, which was viewed as a death-trance, for 5.67 billion years until they would be called upon to assist Maitreya for the benefit of all humankind,” Davis reports.

So, apparently, you don’t just wake up one day and decide you want to mummify yourself. Sorry for those of you at home with hopes of trying. There’s actually a 3,000-day training process of sorts.
The key element of the process is dietary,” Davis reports. "Japanese ascetics would commonly abstain from cereals, removing wheat, rice, foxtail millet, pros so millet, and soybeans. Instead, they would eat things like nuts, berries, pine needles, tree bark, and resin (which is why the diet of the sokushinbutsu was called mokujikyo, or 'tree-eating.'"

Then, you’re essentially buried alive up to your neck with a little space left for you to breathe, and you kind of just.. wait to die. "Once the ascetic was prepared to attempt to become a sokushinbutsu, it's said he would step into a tiny burial chamber and has himself buried alive, with a small opening to allow air inside the chamber,” Davis writes. "There he would sit, chanting sutra and ringing a bell to signal that he was still alive."
How Japanese Buddhist Monks Mummified Themselves While Alive

Does anyone feel inspired by this epic display of self-discipline? I confess that I found inspiration from it.View attachment 20026

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