Buddhist monks are capable of amazing things thanks to their training and meditation.
Some legendary feats that have been performed by monks are things like withstanding the force of a water fall, controlling their body temperature through breathing or enduring hundreds of blows from a wooden staff.
In one particularly mystifying case, one monk in the Nong Bua Lamphu province of Thailand went in front crowd and mediated in a tub of boiling oil.
What may seem like a death wish to us is actually a religious ceremony, so precautions were likely made to ensure the monks safety. The ceremony is for the monk to prove his strength and determination to the villagers
As he meditates in the pool, his followers have him touch their items with the thought that his strength will be passed onto them. The oil he sits in was later sold in bottles to his followers.
