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A Japanese Buddhist monk on Wednesday finished a grueling nine-day ritual without eating, drinking, or sleeping as he chanted sutras 100,000 times, reports said.

1 posted on 10/22/2015 12:38:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Nine days without sleep? He’d be great on Deadliest Catch!!


2 posted on 10/22/2015 1:04:46 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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To: nickcarraway

“going without food, water, sleep or even lying down the entire time...”

For NINE days?

Show me the video or I don’t believe it. I think that’s a biological impossibility.


3 posted on 10/22/2015 1:20:39 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: nickcarraway

Some Seattle street people seem to do it all the time.


5 posted on 10/22/2015 1:38:30 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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