About Buddha's Meditation

I was surprised many times how early ideas based on few informations about something anticipated for a long time are more accurate or coincide with those at the end of careful examination on a subject.

So i will write freely about my thoughts so far from little i read about how Buddha created a whole new world through meditation. A world very different from ours due to geographical distance translated in different ways of thinking and acting in most social occasions.

Any person with a social status no matter how rich has certain social duties to attend. Even a prince. I would assume he was pretty bush with daily business and being an intelligent person he would gradually become disgusted with the world he was encountering on daily basis.

So disgusted he gave up his princehood to become a monk and he went first into an ascetic phase as all monks did at that time. The sacrifice. He then realized nothing was coming out of that one too. Too many constraints, too many duties as well. Or missing too much of the life before. He then had a revelation and went into what today know as a middle way or compromise between asceticism and some sort of worldly indulgence. Best of both worlds. The happy Buddha phase.

And the bowl. He wouldn't give up a monk's lifestyle. Or could not return to his previous life he had before. By living only by donations he was probably returning some good advices and encountered more experiences of others. By not being constrained by rules of ascetic life he started to have a lot of time to meditate at his previous experiences and of those who he met daily. That is sorting out things he encountered so far or was still encountering and sharing those thoughts through teachings or preachings if you want. This way, by having education and enough experience of the world through his previous status and also time and motivation (disgust with the world as he knew it) and intelligence to sort all those things out, a very rare combination to this day he started to give never heard before solutions that went all the way to generalizing as rules, and started to build up a whole new world. From his mind only. Sophisticated and simple in the same time.

Cultural differences with the west became even more complicated to the point of total incompatibility. The many subtle observations and solutions though teachings convinced many and rose to rules that were probably not always very well understood by all (as it happens to followers who may not have full mental capacity of their masters) especially centuries later. His way of life and teachings (which are always incomplete cause a man will never finish his job in a lifetime) may had give birth to sects with a lot of power by unifying members in those beliefs who then started to believe it's their duty to share all that knowledge with the world. All religions come sooner or later at that point.

Then marriage with shintoism in Japan. Integrating Shintoism into Buddhism which are both polytheistic but of complete different cultural and historical background (India and Japan) meant all the raw power of shamanism (a system of manipulating natural phenomena) entered and somehow integrated into a well regulated system of thinking but that marriage probably was never meant to be by the originator and probably not a holy one.

A hidden form of Buddhism, God knows mixed with what (i haven't read Dianetics) may be Scientology.

"According to the Mahaparinibbana Sutta of the Pali canon, at the age of 80, the Buddha announced that he would soon reach parinirvana, or the final deathless state, and abandon his earthly body".

A belief also found in Scientology called "dropping of the body". Needless to say Ron Hubbard the founder of Scientology can be anagramated as Reborn Budha and Dianetics, his main work, resembles in name with dhyāna or Buddha's middle way. "According to Tilmann Vetter, the core of earliest Buddhism is the practice of dhyāna, as a workable alternative to painful ascetic practices. Bronkhorst agrees that Dhyānawas a Buddhist invention".

https://www.google.com/search?q=dropping+of+the+body+in+scientology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Earliest_Buddhism

https://www.google.com/search?q=ron+hubbard+dianetics

I was thinking of something else when i was writing this but one phrase in Wikipedia, about the death of Buddha threw me away back towards similarities between Scientology and Buddhism.

Others have been done it before, much metter that i will ever have time.

http://carolineletkeman.org/propaganda/metteyya.html

There is at least one element of shamanism in Scientology and that is the so called measurement of human's body resistance (actually of the contact between the palms and metal cylinders) during auditing sessions.

But could Buddha (or Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit) have draw so much attention and followers if it wasn't also something magic about him?

We know from his biographies that during is pilgrimage throughout India he received training from different yogis.

"He left Rajagaha and practised under two hermit teachers of yogic meditation. After mastering the teachings of Alara Kalama (Skr. Ārāḍa Kālāma), he was asked by Kalama to succeed him. However, Gautama felt unsatisfied by the practice, and moved on to become a student of yoga with Udaka Ramaputta (Skr. Udraka Rāmaputra). With him, he achieved high levels of meditative consciousness and was again asked to succeed his teacher. But, once more, he was not satisfied, and again moved on."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha#Renunciation_and_ascetic_life

There are things that were never fully explored by westerners and one of them is yoga.

What if yogis, through millennia of practice discovered and mastered that level of communication that occurs within most vertebrates which today we know as "vibrational communication". Could it be the accomplishment of that actually the awakening buddhism is talking about?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddhi

Nevermind what i was thinking. Just ran into something else. We all know Star Wars was inspired from eastern mythology. Yoda in sanskrit means fighter and there was a series of samurai drama movies in Japan called Jedigeki Knights. How about Darth Sidious and the common English words insidious (with a synonym restless) and assidious both comming from Latin?