What are
the Effects of the 4 Feet of Spiritual Force?
The Blessed Buddha once said: When a Bhikkhu develops the The Feet of Force that is enriched with
concentrated desire, concentrated energy, concentrated thought &
concentrated investigation,
all constructed by effort, by thinking:
In this
way will my desire, energy, thinking and investigating neither
be too
slack nor too tense, it will neither be constricted internally
nor scattered externally, then he dwells experiencing both what is
in
front & what is behind, so above, so also below, so by day, so also
at
night! Therefore, with a mind that is all open & unrestricted, he
develops the dazzling bright mind which is pervaded by luminosity...
When the 4 feet of suprahuman force have been developed, refined
and cultivated in exactly this way, the Bhikkhu possesses the various
kinds of suprahuman force: With
the divine ear element, which is
purified and surpasses the human, he hears both divine and human
sounds, both those that are far away as well as those that are near.
Source (edited extract): The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya. [V:265-66]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
