Budda Boy Documentry

A documentary from the discovery channel looks at the astounding feat achieved by a 15 year old Buddhist. He has been meditating for something like 10 months, without eating or drinking, and hardly moving. I personally come from a scientific background, but something I do not doubt is the power of the mind, and its effects on our existence. The cameramen filmed the boy for 60+ consecutive hours to prove that he was not taking in nutrition, and was in fact legitimately performing this act, the boy planned to meditate for six years, just like the original Buddha. This was obviously seen as a second coming by the local practitioners of Nepal, where Buddhism originated form. The documentary also had another, and in my opinion, more fascinating individual. There was this old man, who has claimed to have not eaten or drank since he was twelve, which makes his starvation last over 60 years; he hopes to live for thousands of years this way. The scientists actually applied machines and probes all over his body and monitored him for 10 straight days, and amazingly, there were no changes to the man’s body, and he left fine. The average human will die in 4 days without water; water keeps our brain functional and takes up a staggering 70% of our total body mass. This is proof enough, to me anyway, that the mind's power is much more than we could ever imagine. Some monks have even (and this happened to the 15 year old boy) combusted during meditation. With the power of the mind we see some other aspects of memory seep through. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJAH4ZJBiN8&feature=related A video about the power of the short term memory of a monkey, it’s staggeringly fast compared to us humans. The test uses randomly positioned numbers, 1-9 and touch them in order, but to make things interesting, after .4 of a second the numbers turn into blocks and using memory alone you touch the numbers. After watching this it makes you wonder what other mysteries the mind holds.