Don's Source About Intense Meditation And Metal Bending

[Ming the Merciful]

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50.10 QUESTIONER I know of people who have been recently trained in meditation who, after a very short period of intense meditation, a couple of days or so, are able to cause the action at a distance effect on metal, bending it.

Does anyone here have any idea where Don got this information or have you ever heard of something like it? Thank you!

Without wanting to put a "Damper on Things", what is the point? I came from the School of Zen, and such practises are considered pointless. Meditation development is to achieve Spiritual Awakening and Self-Development, and eventually Liberation. Spoon bending achieves nothing. Are you seeking to become "Awake" with "Party Tricks", or in it for the "Real Thing". I consider such practises and something that is holding you back, and not taking you forward. It is like the story in Zen, where a student spent ten years in Meditation on the bank of a river, seeking to cross the river by Levitation. The Spiritual Master passed, and said use the bridge. It would be easier to bend a spoon with a hammer, than wasting time in Meditation.