Astral Codex Ten

Buddha

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Buddha

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Buddha is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 1 times across 1 issues between March 27, 2026 and March 27, 2026. The archive places it in contexts such as “visualize a Buddha with a crystal sphere in his belly”. It most often appears alongside anticlerical Portuguese press, Arthur, Arthur T.

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  • Category: Concepts
  • Mention count: 1
  • Issue count: 1
  • First seen: March 27, 2026
  • Last seen: March 27, 2026

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A Buddhist Sun Miracle?
March 27, 2026 · Original source
The biggest difference is that many of the Buddhists report seeing an image of the monk Luang Pu Sodh in the sky. One commenter mentions that the crowd had just been meditating, and that a typical Dhammakaya meditation practice is to visualize a Buddha with a crystal sphere in his belly; if true, this would be relevant to them seeing a vision of a monk with a crystal sun in his belly. The “miracle” seems to be a combination of everyone seeing this at once, and the sun behaving in a way not predictable by the specifics of Dhammakaya meditation, but seemingly very predictable by the specifics of its behavior at Fatima almost a century earlier.
Inline links: One commenter mentions
The Buddha-with-glowing-sphere-in-his-belly motif of the Dhammakaya movement, source here. This replication of Fatima in an “uncontaminated” context pushes me further towards believing that sun miracles are neither true divine intervention nor vague hypnotic suggestion, but some particular illusory/psychological phenomenon which necessarily manifests as the sun spinning and changing color, and which can occur independently even among people who aren’t primed to expect it. I continue to be vague on specifics, but think it might be somehow related to fire kasina meditation. This comes from a different Buddhist tradition than the one the Thais were doing; as far as I can tell, none of the Dhammakaya practitioners made the connection. But it seems like being in a meditative frame of mind helped. And it seems like the same pattern of fire kasina effects - including spinning lights, shifting colors swatches, and vivid hallucinations - applied here too.
Inline links: here, somehow related to fire kasina meditation