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.

Milarepa

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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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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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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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My religion is to live and die without regret. by Milarepa

My religion is to live and die without regret.

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In the gap between thoughts by Milarepa

In the gap between thoughts

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Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest. by Milarepa

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

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In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddh... by Milarepa

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

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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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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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My religion is not deceiving myself. by Milarepa

My religion is not deceiving myself.

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

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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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Do not entertain hopes for realization, but practice all your lif... by Milarepa

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

realization practice

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.

buddhist mountain mind

The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the pra... by Milarepa

The affairs of the world will go on forever, do not delay the practice of meditation.

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I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing. by Milarepa

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

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

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Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive. by Milarepa

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

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