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: With the
divine eye,
which is purified &
surpasses the human, he sees beings passing away and being reborn,
as inferior or superior, beautiful or ugly, fortunate & unfortunate,
and he understands how beings travel on in accordance with their
actions (=kamma)
thus: The beings who misbehaved bodily, verbally
and mentally, who reviled the Noble Ones, held wrong view, and did
actions based on wrong view, with the break-up of their body, right
after death, they have been
reborn in a state of
misery, in a painful
destination, in the lower worlds, even in hell! But these other beings
who engaged in good behaviour bodily, verbally & mentally, who did
not revile the Noble Ones, who held right view, & undertook action
based on right view, with the break-up of their body, after death,
have been reborn in
a good & happy destination, even a divine world!
Thus with the
divine eye, which is purified and surpasses the human,
he sees beings passing away and being reborn, inferior and superior,
beautiful and ugly, fortunate and unfortunate, and he understands
how beings are
reborn in accordance with their
kamma
(behaviour).
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
Kamma:
The
accumulation of intentional causes, which may have spurious effects see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_and_Fruit.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Kamma_is_improvable.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/III/Inevitable_Consequences.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Rebirth.htm
About
the Divine Eye:
The
Dibba-Cakkhu see:
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/The_Divine_Eye.htm
http://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/DPPN/wtb/b_f/dibba_cakkhu.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
