Monk meditated while he burned himself, how did he do it?.

I saw in the news a buddhist monk that burned himself because he was protesting and just sat there burning until he was dead. He did not move or scream. Then a different guy I saw online was only set aflame a tiny bit with only 15% of his body and was running around screaming.

So how do the monks do this? Anything you can think of please such as how to think like a monk and how to meditate and have certain thoughts to reduce pain? Anything would be of great help as I have cancer and can't wait to practice your advice.

Thank You very much.

 

I found this on reddit and would like to know is there anything similar to this way of thinking?

 

I think that it just comes from years and years of practicing mindfulness. try looking up some guided mindfulness meditations. you can find lots of options on youtube or through various smartphone apps.

 

Or check out my new rock'n'roll band "Burning Buddha."

 

Burning yourself to death is really dangerous. At about 400 degrees your nerve endings are killed and the pain stops, but the results are all too obvious. The human body uses pain to prevent you from compounding an injury, causing you to rest in order to give you body the best chances of recovery and finally rendering you unconscious in its final attempts for your survival. Cutting off pain is like taking the batteries out of a smoke alarm and forgetting that your house is still on fire. In situations such as yours, you can only trust your doctors to control your pain to produce the best balance between suffering pain and a successful recovery. However, do not be afraid to ask for expert opinions on the subject, since doctors who are expert at treating your condition may not be expert on controlling the pain that you are suffering.
I hope that my somewhat light hearted (but medically accurate) answer is of some sort of help in improving your understanding of the situation and looking in the best directions for further help. Kindest Regards, Wills

 

Understatement of the year LOL.

 

Sorry to hear that you are going through this

We have a cancer forum here, but there isn't much traffic. You still might want to check it out
Cancer: There is Hope

I recommend that you check out acupuncture and traditional Chinese herbal medicine. It could help a lot with pain, and, along with conventional cancer treatments, help treat your cancer.

Meditation can certainly be something powerful. There are many different styles, I can't recommend any particular style, but their pretty much all good.

 

basically the senses withdraw through inner absorption. the steady absorption is of course phenomenal. yogic techniques with teach bliss of inner absorption would be best for cancer. on other hand some tantras like yamantake and garuda of tibetan buddhists can maybe have curative effects. not really sure

 

Meditation is helpful in avoiding psychological pain, not physical pain.

In my experience, practice of mindfulness or awareness is useful in reducing physical pain to some extent if you can observe the painful sensations as a witness. This may take some mental strength or mental equanimity to detach from the painful sensations and witness it dispassionately.

 

From what I understand from reading and listening to lectures, when a person internalizes the fact that all things are contingent and impermanent, he or she loses fear of impermanence. They stop trying holding on to things that they can never really hold on to. Meditation is awareness practice, and aids in seeing the impermanence of everything. I can imagine that a person could come to peace with pain or even with their own impermanence through the practice of meditation.

 

He must have reached some DEEP level of meditation, non-attachment on a molecular level.