What do Buddhist believe about the supernatural?

Answer 1

The answer below, which was first, seems self contradictory, and would probably be interpreted wrongly by anyone trying to learn. Taoists are not scientists in any sense people would usually use. Nevertheless, I have left it so people can read it.

Taoist scripture does not say much about the supernatural, except as it applies to the Tao and the Te. The Tao Te Chingmakes a few obscure references to a deity or deities, but nothing descriptive and nothing prescriptive. There is no indication of what a deity is like, and there is no indication of how to pray to the deity.

Taoism is not at conflict with other religions, such as the Chines folk religions from which it may have sprung, Buddhism, or even Christianity. The result is that Taoists see the supernatural very differently from one another. When we speak of Taoist practice, what we are usually talking about is Taoism that is grafted onto Chinese folk religion, with some possible admixture of Buddhism. From that point of view, Taoists may believe in ancestor spirits, ghosts, oracles, nature spirits, and so on.

It happens that there is a Taoist pantheon. One might suspect from stories about it that it is meant to be an allegory.

AnswerTaoists are scientists. they do not believe anything that they cannot experience themselves. except in instances where they know people who have had more experience, who can say that they will likely experience the same things sometime in the future.

that said, Taoists recognize that chi exists on many levels, psychic abilities exist to an extent, perfect body control is possible, ghosts exist, wiccan magic exists, occult magic exists, and that a universal connecting force - the Tao - exists.

Most people are deluded by wanting to believe that all of these things exist, and end up creating fantasies about them that aren't true, but that they believe are true. part of being a Taoist is learning how to separate fantasy from reality. So, even though these things exist, most of what you can read about them is going to be fantasy, but there is some bit of truth in almost everything.

Answer 2

Two words: Dalai Lama. He's supposably the "chosen one" by the Buddhist.