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Ram Bomjon is a 16-year-old boy born and living in the village of Ratnapur who allegedly is in the process of transforming into the next incarnation of the Buddha. It has been claimed that the so-called “Buddha Boy” has been sitting under a pipal tree in uninterrupted meditation since May of 2005. According to the set of people who surround and control access to Ram Bomjon, he asserted just before sitting down that he was entering into a six-year meditative state in order to attain enlightenment, a la the original Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. According to the same set of people who surround and control access to Bomjon, he:

-has not stirred from his meditation since May 2005,

-has had nothing to eat since May 2005,

-has continued meditating even after being bitten by a snake,

-and has caused two mute people in proximity to him to begin to speak.

This is a bit misleading. He has woken up since 2005, you can see a YouTube video of him here, shot in 2009. Not trying to be a skeptic but is living for years without food physically possible?

No, it’s not. Monks have been proven to be able to exert extraordinary control over their metabolism, slowing it to a near comatose state, but they still need nourishment. I’m all for people believing whatever they want to, but lying to create believers is wrong. This boy may have great self control, but he has eaten and been conscious at points during these six years, of that there can be no doubt. Can people cause themselves to do incredible things through sheer force of will? Yes. But this is something that’s impossible under any circumstance, and it’s wrong to call it truth.

(Source: mostrodellanotte)