GIVING BUDDHIST STATUE AS A GIFT – GOOD OR BAD?
Posted on June 10th, 2019
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
Our President Sirisena has donated the Samadhi Buddhist Statue to Prime Minister Modi. I have heard from my mother never to give a Buddha Statue ( Budu Pilima) as a gift to another.
According to her giving Buddha Statue could bring Bad Omen to both the Giver and the Receiver.
The following is an extract from the Paranormal Forum:
My
mother became very fond of Buddha statues after her trip to India and in 2006
she purchased a 40 inch statue here in South Africa. Over the next few months
some negative events took place at the house. The first event was the geyser
had burst, and then a few other small things around the house began to give
problems.
Our
neighbor came over the one day and explained to us that it’s apparently bad
luck to purchase a Buddha statue for yourself, it has to be given to you as a
gift. Anyway, we disregarded that as a little myth but events got worse. The
house was broken into and we were cleaned out of just about everything, and my
folk’s business began to hit rock bottom and had to close down. At this point
we still did not relate these events to the statue, but then two of our dogs
suddenly got ill and died of organ failure (which the vet could not find the
cause of).
We decided to humor the idea that the statue could be bringing bad luck, so we
decided to give it to my grandmother as a gift to put in her garden. After
doing so these bad events stopped almost immediately and nothing bad happened
at my gran’s place after the statue was moved there.
One very strange event took place the day we removed the statue, though. Just
before we took it to the car, our Great Dane was staring at the statue in an
alert manner, the hair on her back and neck were standing up and she was growling
menacingly at this statue. We have other statues in our garden and she’s never
done this with any of them.
To this day, I have yet to conclude whether the events that took place were
coincidence or not, but after seeing how the dog reacted to the statue, and how
the events just stopped suddenly, could there be a bit of truth behind what my
neighbor had told us? “
Isn’t this confusing?
June 10th, 2019 at 7:43 pm
I have given a Buddha statue to a friend on the occasion of new house warming. Good and bad happens to everyone according to Kamma. Sirisena’s breaking of 3rd precept at the expense of many is good enough to get Bad Omen. Nevertheless giving a Buddha statue will not bring “Bad Omen” more than giving innocent elephant babies away to foreign countries practiced by many past presidents. Sirisena shall be commended for that.
June 10th, 2019 at 11:03 pm
This is an idiotic superstition unconnected with Buddhism. All his life, Buddha preached against the dignified superstition known as religion in its many manifestations. Worshiping of a deity or other imaginary supernatural power is not found in pristine Buddhism. There is no mention of idolatry there.
June 11th, 2019 at 5:44 am
VAISRAWANA !!! CERTAINLY, IT IS NOT IDIOTIC SPUERSTITION. IT CAN HAPPEN. YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE IT TO BELIEVE IT, PERIOD. YES,YES, IT NEED NOT BE CONNECTED WITH BUDDHISM.
CHRISTIANS DIED WHILE PRAYING. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY. IT WAS A LUNATIC AT PLAY.
PLEASE BELIEVE ME, THERE IS ALSO AN UNSEEN HAND, WHICH YOU MIGHT EXPERIENCE SOMEDAY.