Miracles of Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha was alleged to possess superhuman powers and abilities; however, due to an understanding of the workings of the skeptical mind and how the display of miracles can be abused by unscrupulous people, he reportedly responded to a request for miracles by saying, "...I dislike, reject and despise them," and refused to comply.

It is said that immediately after his birth, he stood up, took seven steps north, and uttered:

"I am chief of the world,
Eldest am I in the world,
Foremost am I in the world.
This is the last birth.
There is now no more coming to be."

Furthermore, every place the baby Buddha placed his foot, a lotus flower bloomed. There is a claim that the Buddha's birth was miraculous via his mother's dream of a white elephant. This does not mean that Queen Mahamaya, had an 'immaculate conception' like the Christian legends of the birth of Jesus Christ. The Buddha's biological father is accepted as King Suddhodana.

Other miracles and powers that Gautama Buddha is alleged to have possessed and exercised include the six higher knowledges (Abhijna): Iddhi, telepathy, super-hearing, divine seeing, and seeing past lives. These are described in the Mahasihanada Sutta and other suttas in the Pali canon.

The Twin Miracle at Sravasti is also considered as the Buddhist miracle par excellence.

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