मिलारेपा

Quotes

• “Having meditated on gentleness and on compassion,I have forgotten the difference between myself and others.”
• “In my youth I committed black deeds. In maturity I practised innocence. Now, released from both good and evil, I have destroyed the root of karmic action and shall have no reason for action in the future. To say more than this would only cause weeping and laughter. What good would it do to tell you? I am an old man. Leave me in peace.”
• “When I drink at the stream of enlightenment,Or the cool blue waters of a mountain cascade,Which is the property of no one else,Strong tea and beer are both abandoned.Such easing of the pain of afflictionIs the best way of taking drink–I've left tea and beer behind.”
• “For those who do not guard their morals,Prayers are but wishful thinking.For those who do not practice what they preach,Oratory is but faithless lying.”
• “I attain all my knowledge through studying my mind within, thus all my thoughts become the teachings of Dharma. So long as I do not become separated from my own mind, I am always accompanied by sutras. I have realized that all manifestations are Mind, and the mind itself is the illumination.”
• “I pray to all accomplished beings; I pray you to extinguish the Five Poisonous Klesas.”

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Bhutanese painted thanka of Milarepa (1052-1135), Late 19th-early 20th Century, Dhodeydrag Gonpa, Thimphu, Bhutan.jpg

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