MILAREPA

Milarepa is the Tibetan Buddhism's most renowned saint.

Full of intrigue, disaster, and amazing feats, it is the heroic story of a man who transforms from an avenging black magician into a supremely powerful yogi, pointing the way to self-knowledge and liberation.

In 1050 Milarepa sought vengeance on unscrupulous relatives for mistreating his mother and sister.

Trained in sorcery - black magic - to destroy the enemies of his family - he commanded a rain of scorpions, snakes, and lizards to attack the villains.

Later he meet a teacher - Marpa - who tells him that this is not the way to deal with one's enemies.

Milarepa renounces black magic to seek mystic truth insetad.

He retreats to a cave where, after years of intense meditation, he acquires the power to change his body into any shape and to fly across the sky like a bird.

But most important, he achieves the greatest victory of alI-mastery over his own self.

After years od teaching the Dharma, Milarepa was poisoned by a jealous Lama.

He asked that all of his faithful follwoers come to see him on his deathbed.

For many days he taught the Law of Karma and the Nature of Reality.

The scene was filled with mysterious music, wonderful aromas, rainbows arching the clear sky, and an eerly mystical feeling.

He passed away at age 84.

It is said that his mourners heard these words,

"Dearest to my heart, abandon your old concepts - realize your encompassing emptiness and dissolve all duality."




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