03/09/2025
The Paranormal Powers of Dipa Ma
Dipa Ma was completely above the concerns of ordinary life. “The mind is all stories,” she would say. Sometimes people would come to her with a problem,and she would simply laugh at them. “Take your mind to a place where you are above it,” she would direct them, and simply by looking into her eyes, they would realize that their problem did not exist in the way that they thought it did. She
taught that nothing is permanent, not your house, not your car, your clothes, your family, your marriage, or even your life. Everything is transitory, so don’t get too attached to it.
Dipa Ma taught that meditation leads to liberation of the mind and heart from the ordinary experience of life which leads to restlessness, craving, and delusions. She recommended that a student practice as often as possible during their day-
to-day life, and when they were ready for deeper levels of experience, that they should arrange their affairs and enter a meditation retreat type setting where they should meditate all day long for two weeks. Doing this would lead to massive
breakthroughs. Whatever arises in the mind during meditation, simply note it and observe it and let it go. If you see “snakes and tigers” or even “dead bodies” in your meditation, simply observe it and let it go, and every time you do this you will go a little further in, a little deeper into the levels of concentration. Her own concentration was said to be perfect.
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Among the powers Dipa Ma was said to possess, one of them was a direct body to body transference of energy. This may be similar to or identical with what is called Shaktipat by the yoga masters. One student, Sharda Rogall reported that “she stared at me with utter love… There was Shakti (spiritual energy) just pouring from her.” Jack Kornfield reported that she said a prayer over him and blessed him which left him with an energetic feeling of bliss which lasted for hours and “it
would just not wear off. It was extraordinary.”
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One final note that I would like to point out is that Dipa Ma was a woman who had gone through great periods of physical and emotional suffering and that she had risen above all these things to find enlightenment and experience the end of suffering and the full promise of Buddhism. Life can be very difficult, she once said, but everything can be solved through the Dharma. She died in 1989 while
bowing to a statue of the Buddha."
