31 October, 2013

What did the Buddha teach about magic and fortune telling?

QUESTION: What did the Buddha teach about magic and fortune telling?
ANSWER: He considered such practices as fortune telling, wearing magic charms for protection, fixing lucky sites for building and fixing lucky days to be useless superstitions and he expressly forbid his disciples to practice such things. He called all these things ‘low arts’. He says; 

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