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After her husband died, Dipa Ma was extremely unhappy. One day a doctor suggested that she learn how to meditate. She attended her first meditation retreat at the Kamayut Meditation Center in Rangoon.<ref name="lionsroar"/> She soon after attended her second retreat, at the Thathana Yeiktha center, where the Venerable [[Mahasi Sayadaw]] was teacher-in-residence.<ref name="lionsroar"/> There she experienced the first stage of [[Enlightenment in Buddhism|enlightenment]].<ref name="lionsroar"/> | After her husband died, Dipa Ma was extremely unhappy. One day a doctor suggested that she learn how to meditate. She attended her first meditation retreat at the Kamayut Meditation Center in Rangoon.<ref name="lionsroar"/> She soon after attended her second retreat, at the Thathana Yeiktha center, where the Venerable [[Mahasi Sayadaw]] was teacher-in-residence.<ref name="lionsroar"/> There she experienced the first stage of [[Enlightenment in Buddhism|enlightenment]].<ref name="lionsroar"/> | ||
In 1963 she was chosen to study the [[siddhi]]s or spiritual powers with the Indian master [[Anagarika Munindra]],<ref>{{cite web|title= Enlightenment In This Lifetime: Meetings With A Remarkable Woman - An Interview With Dipa Ma|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/enlightenment-lifetime-meetings-remarkable-woman|publisher=[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref> a senior student of [[Mahasi Sayadaw]]. According to scholars, the ''[[Visuddhimagga]]'' is one of the extremely rare texts within the enormous literatures of various forms of Jainism, Buddhism, and Hinduism to give explicit details about how spiritual masters were thought to actually manifest supernormal abilities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jacobsen|first1=edited by Knut A.|title=Yoga Powers|url=https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco|url-access=limited|date=2011|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9789004212145|page=[https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco/page/n105 93]}}</ref> Abilities such as flying through the air, walking through solid obstructions, diving into the ground, walking on water and so forth are performed by changing one [[Mahābhūta|element]], such as earth, into another element, such as air.<ref name="Yoga Powers">{{cite book|last1=Jacobsen|first1=edited by Knut A.|title=Yoga Powers|url=https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco|url-access=limited|date=2011|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9789004212145|pages=[https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco/page/n95 83]–86}}</ref> The individual must master ''[[kasina]]'' meditation before this is possible.<ref name="Yoga Powers"/> Dipa Ma, who trained via the ''[[Visuddhimagga]]'', was said to demonstrate these abilities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schmidt|first1=Amy|title=Dipa Ma|date=2005|publisher=Windhorse Publications Ltd|page=Chapter 9 At Home in Strange Realms}}</ref> | In 1963 she was chosen to study the [[siddhi]]s or spiritual powers with the Indian master [[Anagarika Munindra]],<ref>{{cite web|title= Enlightenment In This Lifetime: Meetings With A Remarkable Woman - An Interview With Dipa Ma|url=https://tricycle.org/magazine/enlightenment-lifetime-meetings-remarkable-woman|publisher=[[Tricycle: The Buddhist Review]]|accessdate=March 25, 2016}}</ref> a senior student of [[Mahasi Sayadaw]]. According to scholars, the ''[[Visuddhimagga]]'' is one of the extremely rare texts within the enormous literatures of various forms of [[Jainism]], Buddhism, and [[Hinduism]] to give explicit details about how spiritual masters were thought to actually manifest supernormal abilities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Jacobsen|first1=edited by Knut A.|title=Yoga Powers|url=https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco|url-access=limited|date=2011|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9789004212145|page=[https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco/page/n105 93]}}</ref> Abilities such as flying through the air, walking through solid obstructions, diving into the ground, walking on water and so forth are performed by changing one [[Mahābhūta|element]], such as earth, into another element, such as air.<ref name="Yoga Powers">{{cite book|last1=Jacobsen|first1=edited by Knut A.|title=Yoga Powers|url=https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco|url-access=limited|date=2011|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|isbn=9789004212145|pages=[https://archive.org/details/yogapowersbrills00jaco/page/n95 83]–86}}</ref> The individual must master ''[[kasina]]'' meditation before this is possible.<ref name="Yoga Powers"/> Dipa Ma, who trained via the ''[[Visuddhimagga]]'', was said to demonstrate these abilities.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schmidt|first1=Amy|title=Dipa Ma|date=2005|publisher=Windhorse Publications Ltd|page=Chapter 9 At Home in Strange Realms}}</ref> | ||
==Teaching career== | ==Teaching career== | ||