Where is recorded that the Buddha said this (perhaps about microorganisms)?
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Read sections [5] [6] [7] & [9] in MN 119 about the various types of psychic powers.
As for claims made by Bhante Vimalaramsi on 80 kinds of beings in our body, I cannot answer this question.
As for an Arahant almost commit suicide out of compassion to refrain from harming "small living beings" (maybe either insects or microorganisms), this does not sound Buddhist.
As for the account of Cakkhupala stepping on ants during walking meditation, this is merely a Dhammapada Commentary composed probably hundreds of years after the Buddha.
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For those interested in the principles of proper source evaluation, the primary source should ideally be asked about a quote or a reference first.
Seeing as Bhante Vimalaramsi is alive and breathing he is most suitable to substantiate/refute the claims you quote.
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1. I found the closest source for the first question on 80 kinds of beings in our body:
Β§44 Firstly, it is shared by the eighty families of worms (parasites). There too, creatures live in dependence on the outer skin, on the inner skin, on the flesh, on the sinews, on the bones, on the marrow, feeding on these things. And there they are born, grow old and die, evacuate and make water; and the body is their maternity home, their hospital, their charnel ground, their privy and their urinal.
β The Path of Purification, Chapter VII, 25 https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/khantipalo/wheel271.html
2. Yet for the second one, still not sure where did Bhante Vimalaramsi quoted it from?
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