You can read this funny blog entry about pabbājaniya kammavāca, or the "formal act of banishment," in Burma:
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Are ther any Buddhist rites for Exorcising Demons?
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Bhikkhu Gavesako
Kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno... (MN 26)
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Kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno... (MN 26)
Access to Insight - Theravada texts
Ancient Buddhist Texts - Translations and history of Pali texts
Dhammatalks.org - Sutta translations
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Red shirts to drive away ghosts
When 10 healthy men died one after another last month, villagers realized they were under attack by a "widow ghost" so red shirts went up to protect each house.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/lea ... way-ghosts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
When 10 healthy men died one after another last month, villagers realized they were under attack by a "widow ghost" so red shirts went up to protect each house.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/learning/lea ... way-ghosts" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Bhikkhu Gavesako
Kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno... (MN 26)
Access to Insight - Theravada texts
Ancient Buddhist Texts - Translations and history of Pali texts
Dhammatalks.org - Sutta translations
Kiṃkusalagavesī anuttaraṃ santivarapadaṃ pariyesamāno... (MN 26)
Access to Insight - Theravada texts
Ancient Buddhist Texts - Translations and history of Pali texts
Dhammatalks.org - Sutta translations
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It was 5 years ago, so it's probably gone now. When you reply to a topic on dhammawheel, have a look at the dates... You asked a question on a topic that hasn't been active in five years.
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There ought to be a Buddhist rite for resurrecting a thread that has been dead a long time...JamesTheGiant wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 6:06 pmIt was 5 years ago, so it's probably gone now. When you reply to a topic on dhammawheel, have a look at the dates... You asked a question on a topic that hasn't been active in five years.
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Probably it was this event from a book of Jack Kornfield, The Wise Heart. By chance, this excerpt contains the story:
https://jackkornfield.com/the-sacredness-of-form/
Sometimes people make the mistake of clinging to the universal level. Like the always open hand, this is a problem. Buddhist texts say that form arises out of emptiness, yet the world of form must be met on its own terms. This is sometimes called suchness. Things are the way they are. From the universal level, we have to return to the world of form and particulars, without being caught in them.
Once a villager came to Ajahn Chah to ask for help with a woman who had lost her mind. In the west we might call her manic or delusional. For days she had been wildly spouting obscenities mixed with Buddhist teachings on emptiness, running around, up all night, disturbing everyone. Many of the villagers felt she was possessed by an evil spirit. Ajahn Chah said he would see her.
He told his monks to quickly dig a big hole next to where he sat. Other monks built a big fire. “Put a huge water pot on the fire,” he said. Soon a group of men and women pulled the poor woman to him and asked him to rid her of the evil spirit.
Ajahn Chah tried to talk to her, but she continued shouting obscenities and talking about emptiness and meaninglessness. He told the monks to hurry up and make the fire hotter and dig the hole deeper. He said that the only way to get rid of such a spirit was to put the woman in the hole, pour boiling water on her and bury her. That should do it, he said. As the water got hot, he said, “You can carry her there in a minute.”
All of a sudden the woman became very quiet and docile. She sat up and talked a bit to him. He sent most of the people away, and began to ask what had happened, listening with real compassion. He heard her whole story. Later he told the superstitious villagers that fear of boiling to death had released her from the evil spirit. What it had really done, he told us, was awaken her self-preservation. Then he could begin to listen to her and direct her to the help she needed.
This is not to suggest that such a radical intervention would be right in our circumstances. Within his cultural context, Ajahn Chah was a kind of shaman. He knew that something in her life had to die. Because Ajahn Chah knew that form is empty, he could play within it in an intuitive and wise way. Yet he never forgot the importance of honoring the tangible realities of the world. On one level everything is like a dream. On another, what we do matters immensely.
The teaching is a lake with shores of ethics, unclouded, praised by the fine to the good.
There the knowledgeable go to bathe, and cross to the far shore without getting wet.
[SN 7.21]
There the knowledgeable go to bathe, and cross to the far shore without getting wet.
[SN 7.21]
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When the desciple monks of lord budda entered the forest to meditate , they were disturbed by demons who were inhabitants of this forest. On the advise of lord budda the 500 desciples returned to the forest and chanted karaniya metta sutta with compassion to the demons who were dwelling in the forest. The demons quitened after metta sutta allowed the monks to meditate and all monks were said to have attained arhant states.Wesley1982 wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2012 4:46 pmAre ther any Buddhist rites for Exorcising Demons?
Yes, but its only done by lamas or teachers who actually know what they are doing.
This explains that it is not the demons who has to be exorcised but it is development of metta or compassion by culturing our own mind (with metta meditation ) which is an elevated status of compssion that can expel any form of demon.
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Ah, the incantation... I know the incantation goes like this:Sylvester wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2012 7:16 am From Ajahn Thanissaro's notes on the Vinaya -
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/auth ... .ch04.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;A bhikkhu who kills a "non-human being" — a yakkha, nāga, or peta — or a devatā (this last is in the Commentary) incurs a thullaccaya. According to the Commentary, when a spirit possesses a human being or an animal, it can be exorcised in either of two ways. The first is to command it to leave: This causes no injury to the spirit and results in no offense. The second is to make a doll out of flour paste or clay and then to cut off various of its parts (!). If one cuts off the hands and feet, the spirit loses its hands and feet. If one cuts off the head, the spirit dies, which is grounds for a thullaccaya.
I've not located the primary source in the Vinaya though. Anyone care to try?
For a portable exorcism device used by laity in Thai Buddhism, you do have the meed-mors (special knives). These are consecrated to invoke -
1. Sakka's Vajirāvudha
2. Vessavana's Gadāvudha
3. Ālavaka's Dussāvudha
4. Yama's Nayanāyudha
5. Vishnu's Chakra.
The first 4 are mentioned in the Commentaries, but the fifth probably snuck in during the Puranic period.
"Sakkassa vajiravudham
Yamassa nayanavudham
Alavakassa dussavudham
Vessuvannassa gadhavudham
Cattaro va avudhanam
Etesam anubhavena
Sabbe Yakkha palayanti"
Or
"Namo Buddhaya
Ma Pa Tha Na Pha Ka Sa Ca
Sabbe deva pisaceva
Alavaka dayopiyakhaggam
talapattam disva
Sabbeyakkha palayanti.
Sakkassa vajiravudham
Vessuvannassa gadhavudham
Alavakassa dussavudham
Yamassa nayanavudham
Ime disva sabbe yakkha palayanti."
The Visnu Cakra is included in another version. But that version not really that famous.
Often, particularly in Thailand, the exorcism will always include this verse invoking Vessavana Maharaja:
"Puttakamo labhe puttam, Dhanakamo labhe dhanam; Atthi kaye kayañāya, Devanam piya tam sutva. Itipi so bhagavā, yamaraja no, Thao Vessuvanno, Maranam sukham, Arahaṁ Sugato Namo Buddhaya."
Hiriottappasampannā,
sukkadhammasamāhitā;
Santo sappurisā loke,
devadhammāti vuccare.
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sukkadhammasamāhitā;
Santo sappurisā loke,
devadhammāti vuccare.
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A different way to Exorcise Evil Spirits.
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