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July 2008 
Teenage Buddha Missing, or, We See The Gurus We Expect
Bill
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) -- A teenage boy in Nepal whose followers believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha is missing after 10 months of meditation, allegedly without food or water, officials said Saturday.
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Buddhist priests who visited him said the boy was not the incarnation of Buddha but believed he had been meditating for months.
Buddhism teaches that right thinking and self-control can enable people to achieve nirvana -- a divine state of peace and release from desire. Buddhism has about 325 million followers, mostly in Asia.
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It's not every day you see the headline "Teenage Buddha Missing" on CNN, so when it happens you just have to be interested. I'd heard before about the meditating boy who didn't eat or drink, the story has been making the rounds, but the interesting new twist is that he has disappeared. Not poof into the air in front of witnesses disappeared, that would be a whole 'nother story, but disappeared in the night, when he is normally concealed from the admiring crowds with screens.
I hope he's okay. Religion like this is big business all around the world, which means money, which means the fellow isn't that safe, because money makes people do crazy things (not the least of which is to commit frauds to attract the attention of religious crowds, that still happens every day.)
I thought it was interesting that in Nepal a meditating boy who doesn't seem to need to eat or drink excites the interest of the crowds - while here in the US it's usually the image of the Virgin Mary in a window or on a wall or a tortilla somewhere.
I wonder wether a meditating boy here in this country could excite as much interest?
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Yes and no -
No - because the authorities would have hooked him up to an IV within a few days and arrested his parents for abuse…..
Which in turn would have caught the eye of the press and got peoples attention - at least for a few days.
And you are right to be concerned for him…even in a country where there is more enlightenment in one small village than we have in a whole state over here, there will be people who will take advantage of a situation for profit. A sad but true comment on the human condition. We can only hope to send out positive energy to him and request to the universe for his safe return.
I haven’t anything more about him, which I’m hoping is a good sign. I’d like to think he just got the hell out of there and went to find someplace better to think.
I don’t think it would help my meditation to have crowds of people thronging around. It might be an interesting challenge, but even Gautama and Milarepa got some alone time. ;-}
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had a small piece on this in “This Week In God” - no further news, just a short video clip of the meditation boy in his 'shrine' at the base of a tree, and the comment that the boy had gone missing. This was yesterdays show, so about april 3rd 2006.
There has been at least one well documented case in Europe of a woman who survived on the Eucharist only… a breatharian if you will, according to a book I read on the breatharian subject quite a while ago. I’m convinced it’s quite possible. Truth on the edge is almost always stranger than fiction.
Knew a chap who reached the stage where he no longer needed to sleep. After going a few weeks he decided it was just too strange and downshifted his vibe rate a gear or two till he needed it again.
Kenneth