Milarepa Quotes

#1. In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.

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#2. In the gap between thoughts
nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

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#3. If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

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#4. To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.

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#5. Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

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#6. In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

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#7. You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves.

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#8. Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your life..

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#9. I trained my spirit in method.

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#10. Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

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#11. Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

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#12. When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.

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#13. He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

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#14. My religion is not deceiving myself.

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#15. When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

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#16. Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

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#17. Strong and healthy, who thinks of sickness until it strikes like lightning? Preoccupied with the world, who thinks of death, until it arrives like thunder?

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#18. My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

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#19. Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

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#20. All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others.

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#21. Know emptiness, Be compassionate.

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#22. In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

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#23. Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.

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#24. At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling Gem
Later,it becomes indispensable
In the end;you feel like a penniless beggar
These are my thoughts and feelings on money
So I renounced both wealth and goods

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#25. One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.

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#26. Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.

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#27. I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

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#28. The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

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#29. I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

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#30. He who avoids misunderstandings,
Amused at the play of his own mind,
Is ever joyful.

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#31. The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don't care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha

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