The Buddha's view of magic is explained by Huston Smith in his book The World's Religions, "Buddha preached a religion devoid of the supernatural. He condemned all forms of divination, soothsaying, and forecasting as low arts, and, though he concluded from his own experience that the human mind was capable of powers now referred to as paranormal, he refused to allow his monks to play around with those powers. 'By this you shall know that a man is not my disciple - that he tries to work a miracle.'"[97]
In fact, in one of the Sutras, they are called hindrances. This is because they distract a person from the path to enlightenment. You cannot not walk the path of power and the path of wisdom. As a Buddhist I choose the path of wisdom. It is the only path to Nirvana.
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