What are
the Effects of the 4 Feet of Spiritual Force?
The Blessed Buddha once said:
When a Bhikkhu develops 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: He remembers many of his prior lives,
one rebirth, two lives, three lives, four lives, five lives, ten past lives,
twenty lives, thirty lives, forty lives, fifty lives, a hundred past lives,
one thousand prior lives, several hundred thousand lives, many
aeons
(universal
cycles) of world-contraction and expansion (big bangs):
There such was my name, species, family, such my appearance, such
was my food, such my experience of pleasure and pain, such my life;
passing away from there, I was reborn elsewhere. There such was
my name, species, family, such my appearance, such was my food,
such my experience of pleasure & pain, such my life length; passing
away from there, I was reborn here. Thus he recollects his manifold
various past lives & abodes in all their particular modes & details...
Source (edited extract):
The Grouped Sayings of the Buddha.
Samyutta Nikāya. [V:265-66]
section 51: The 4 Forces: Thread 11: Shaking The Mansion.
About
Abhiññā: The
6 suprahuman forces, higher powers, or supernormal knowledge's see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/a/abhinna.htm
About
Kappa: The
immensely long universal cycle or eon or kalpa (big
bang to next big bang) see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/kappa.htm
On folly longing after
a now unreal past, that has passed never ever to return:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/No_Nostalgia.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/At_All_Times.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seing_the_Past.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Hidden_Horror.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Seing_Past_Lives.htm
More
on the 4 Feet of Suprahuman Force!
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/g_m/iddhi_paada.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_I.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_II.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_III.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_IV.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Suprahuman_Force_V.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Desire_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Energy_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Thinking_as_Way_to_Force.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Investigation_as_Way_to_Force.htm
