dun think ghosts can see the future accurately... we have many
problems with all those mediums and spirit guides, even gods can't
see the future accurately... i am talking about accurately
here...
i dun think that seeing the future in under one of the 5
clairvoyances categories... pls check, thanks!
whatever beings can see the future, one thing i'm sure, with
realisation, comes this ability... among others.
I dunnu if it is mentioned in Buddhist sutras, but it is
mentioned in Hindu sutras:
Excerpt
http://www.yogichen.org/cw/cw28/bk029.html
We Buddhists give most of our attention to the practice of
concentration and meditation on voidness, through this, all the
sorrows and the root of sorrow, which is the inner self, the eighth
consciousness, may be overcome and transformed into Buddha's
wisdom. We are not desirous of getting supernatural powers that
will make the inner self strong enough to fight with others. When
the farmer works diligently in the field and it is time for
harvest, the chaff is gotten along with the rice; so we practice
according to tantric instructions for full Enlightenment in this
lifetime and when we become accomplished, supernatural powers are
also attained simultaneously. But to the Western scholars or
researchers, supernatural power is an interesting subject. They
read books on Tantric Hinduism which describe many wonderful things
and think that the Hindus certainly have no less power than the
Tantric Buddhists. In order to correct this misunderstanding, I am
writing this chapter.
The main difference in this regard is this--the Tantric Hindus
and other non-Buddhists have five supernatural powers: divyacaksus
(instantaneous view of anything anywhere), divyasrotra (ability to
hear any sound anywhere), paracittajnana (ability to know the
thoughts of all other minds), purvanivasanusmrtijnana (knowledge of
all former existences of oneself and others), and rddhi-saksatkriya
(the power to be anywhere or do anything at will). But only the
Buddhist has the final one, Anasrava, which accompanies all the
others. With Anasrava, the above mentioned powers become limitless
and greater in power. The reason for the Buddhist superiority is
this: the Buddhist Tantric practitioner spends much time and energy
avoiding his own sorrows whether gross or subtle. The root of
sorrow is ignorance and the root of ignorance is the inner self.
The Tantric Hindu, holding tightly to the higher self, limits his
wisdom and power while the Buddhist, being free of even this,
attains unlimited wisdom and power.
Enough of theory. Let us look at some actual comparisons. We can
begin with the scriptures.
A. In Hinduism, in the book Mysterious Kundalini by Vasant G.
Rele, on page 68, eight Ashta siddhis are written of:
1) "Anima--A yogi concentrating, meditating and fixing his
attention on this quality of the soul during forced exhalation,
draws together his entire energy to a point which is then made to
penetrate into all bodies so as to make them vibrate according to
the will of the Yogi."
But he cannot again draw his energy from this little point into
the voidness nature which is the final truth of Buddhism. He does
not believe in that.
2) "Mahima--This is also a special quality of the soul. A yogi
by mere inhalation of air makes his body assume a large size and
comprehends the universe in himself as was done by Krishna."
This universe spoken of is the worldly one and does not include
that of Buddhism, and he cannot enlarge and extend himself from his
universe to the voidness nature because of the same reason given in
the last Siddhi. It is said in the philosophy of mathematics that
infinity and the unlimited decimals are equal to zero, so the
voidness can be both infinity and unlimited decimals. The Hindus
have no anasrava supernatural power and they cannot reach
voidness.
3) "Laghima--He can make his body as light as a feather so that
it can float in the air or in water. The yogi's power of traveling
thousands of miles in a moment is attributed to this Siddhi."
Even traveling in a moment is limited by time. In Buddhism there
are many good examples of this power, one of which was quoted in
"Kundalini Yoga" (a Hindu work by Sivananda) as follows: "Once an
outsider asked Milarepa for a contest to see which of them could
arrive at the top of the snow hill first. This outsider is riding
on a magic drum and begins to fly up the hill the next morning
while Milarepa was still sleeping. When his disciple saw the
outsider halfway up the hill, he called for Milarepa to get up but
Milarepa continued to sleep. The outsider had almost arrived at the
top of the hill. By only one thought Milarepa arrived at the top.
The outsider lost all his supernatural power and fell down." Here
Milarepa, though quoted by a Hindu worker, is well-known even to
Westerners as the Great Tibetan Yogi. To a great yogi accomplished
in the voidness meditation, there is no limitation in space and
time, but to a Hindu there is the limitation of Brahma or the high
self which I have mentioned in practically every chapter.
4) "Garima--A yogi increases specific gravity of the body thus
making it as heavy as a mountain by swallowing large draughts of
air and compressing them in the tissues of the body."
The quantities of air swallowed cannot compare with that of the
Tantric Buddhist.
5)
"Prapti--When in Samadhi the yogi acquires the power of predicting
future events, of understanding unknown languages, of curing
disease and of divining the unexpressed thoughts of
others."
The time of the future is limited by the kapla of Brahma's
creation and destruction, but a Buddhist is free from it.
6) "Prakamya--It is the containing of more than one's
expectations and the power of casting off the old skin and
maintaining a youthful appearance for an unusually long period of
time. This is recorded as being true in the case of yogi King
Yayati and Aleiluades who maintained unfading youth to the last day
of their lives."
Here we read that he has a last day, but there are great
Buddhist yogis such as the lotus-born Padmasambhava who are still
alive. Not only he but many, many others such as Saraha, Harvarapa,
Biwapa, and females Such as Nukuma, Yishitoga, Sukarsiddhi who have
attained non-death Enlightenment.
7) "Vasitva--It is the power of taming living creatures and
bringing them under control."
This occurs in Tantric Buddhism also. Even in Ch'an there are
disciples who were tigers. In Christianity Saint Francis tamed a
fox who had killed many people.
8) Ishitva--Obtaining universal dominion either in this life or
in the next by means of yoga."