Story of Milarepa

Milarepa built and destroyed many towers. He did not complain. At one point, discouraged, Milarepa did leave Marpa to study with another teacher.

When that proved to be unsuccessful, he returned to Marpa, who once again was angry. But now Marpa relented and began to teach Milarepa. And to practice what he was being taught, Milarepa lived in a cave and devoted himself to Mahamudra. Milarepa was a founding figure of the Kagyu order and a great love saint throughout Tibet.

He wears a single white cotton robe and a red meditation belt around his body. His skin is either flesh-colored or has a light green hue on account of the years he spent eating only nettle soup. His left hand holds a skull cup and his right hand presses his ear forward in the attitude of singing his songs of realization..

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A good person should never give up the Dharma. His Holiness told a story about a pork butcher who killed a pig a day, and a total of pigs a year. In this way, he transferred the blame and responsibility from his own shoulders to the larger community. But that is not how it is.

Whether you are a Buddhist or not, it is of benefit to you to do something positive with body, speech and mind. If you are a Buddhist, you have promised to give up the ten non-virtuous actions and you have taken vows. If you disrespect these commitments and engage in negative actions, the result will not be good. Next, His Holiness returned to the subject of breaking samaya.

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He explained that if you were unable to keep every detail of samaya, you might not be breaking the samaya, but, on the other hand, if you became careless or showed disrespect, you would be breaking the samaya, especially monks and nuns. You would be like someone who enlists, puts on armor, goes to the battlefield and then runs away.

Continuing the analogy, His Holiness likened Rinpoches and Lamas to the generals, and the monks and nuns were like warriors. The enemy was the three poisons and the afflictive mental and emotional states. If you just give in when the enemy of afflictive emotions attacks, it is very shameful.

You have surrendered to your enemy and become his slave. That is not the behavior of a warrior. His Holiness pointed out that each of the 84, teachings of the Buddha were designed to work on one of the poisons. Every one of those teachings was like a sharp weapon against the poisons and afflictive emotions. All the commitments were about conquering them. Sometimes people misunderstood the meaning of samaya. But, in essence, both samaya and tsultrim [ethical behavior] meant working on our negative emotions.

We had to see the mind poisons very clearly as something really negative and undesirable. Then we had to work to overcome them, otherwise they would lead to suffering for ourselves and others, and to rebirth in the lower realms. His Holiness used anger as an example.

Sometimes, if he became a little angry, he confessed, he became aggressive. Some people considered anger and aggression to be helpful, but they were fooling themselves.

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When we realized the need to rid ourselves of these mind poisons, practice became an ornament not a burden. His Holiness gave another example. If people who wanted to work for world peace failed to understand the negativity of the mind poisons, in spite of a fine aspiration, they could not succeed because all their endeavors would become mixed with pride, arrogance or other mind poisons, which infiltrated their good intentions.