Milarepa Quotes

• 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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  Running, Dog, Lions

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• In the gap between thoughts
  nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

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  Shining, Gaps

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• 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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  Light, Everyday, Mountain

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• 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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  Life Is Short, Evil, Meditation

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

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  Heart, Temples, Monasteries

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• My religion is not deceiving myself.

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  Deceiving

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• 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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  Suffering, Desire, Finals

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• 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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  Buddhist, Attitude, Compassion

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• All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

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  Religious, Buddhist, Knowing

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• My religion is to live and die without regret.

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  Buddhist, Rest In Peace, Regret

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• Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.

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  Lowest, Highest

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

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  Practice, Realization

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• The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation.
  Once you have met with the profound instructions from a meditation master,
  with single pointed determination, set about realizing the Truth.

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  Determination, Practice, Profound

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• 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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  Strong, Buddhist, Thinking

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• 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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  Buddhist, Hate, Long

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

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  Fog, Appearance, Mist

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• Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

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  Buddhist, Compassion, Differences

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• I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

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  Desire, Needs

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• Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

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  Haste, Awareness, Arrivals

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• 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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  Buddhist, Mind, Mountain

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

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  Happiness, Mind, Friendly

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

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  Buddhism, Suffering, Menace

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• 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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  Dream, Yoga, Night

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• In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell . . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies... I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

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  Compassion, Race, Wind

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

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  Wind, This Life, Aim

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