Iddhis ranked?

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Nicholas Weeks
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Iddhis ranked?

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I will study ch. 12 of Path of Purification if need be, but I was wondering if someone knew of any scale of importance or danger for them. Are there lower or higher iddhis, such that one would focus on the higher or more useful first and avoid the lower, coarser or more dangerous iddhis?
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Have to ponder this Kevatta Sutta; thanks Stig. :bow:
Good and evil have no fixed form. It's as easy to turn from doing bad to doing good as it is to flip over the hand from the back to the palm. It's simply up to us to do it. Master Hsuan Hua.
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