Milarepas story appeals to me in a very special way. It is the depths to which he sank. In Christianity, saints are pure from the beginning. But what sinner could possibly aspire to that? Before finding the holy dharma, my life was marked by homelessness, drug use, and violence. When I finally surrendered, it seemed impossible that I could ever find happiness after so much loss, such pain as to make one sick. I was holding onto sanity by the skin of my teeth. By the power of great merit accumulated over my past lives, I remembered my Buddha nature, I experienced great clarity and knew it was always there, even at the lowest point of my life. By the power of the glorious dharma I have purified my karma, and want everyone to know, there is no action from which you can not recover. The Buddha nature is stainless and faultless. But all obscurations are products of the self grasping mind. Perceptions are fluid and subject to change. This should be your take away. You have power over your perception. Homage to the Buddha for showing this to me.
after his passing I am still coming back to his teachings. ( I have not met him in person ) What he says is hard , but very truthful. A jewel in this kind of time.
🙏ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ 🙏His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche teaching found very persuasive, diligence and made me enlightened to some stent. I met many Buddhist Guru Rimpoche in many parts of Nepal ( Olanchung Gola -100+ years old monk, Panchthar to Surkhet), India, Bhutan, Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia. They have profound wisdom renowned for their sagacity and witty eloquence. They have been strictly observing all tenets of itinerant monkhood, I have very high respect for them, and their journey to build the world a very peaceful and beautiful place. 🙏🙏Thank you His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche, my SALUTE And Namaste to you and all Buddist gurus that I metthem!!🙏🙏
this happened to me when I went to a buddhist cave monastery near phu kradung, Thailand... I saw the image of the reclining buddha and I could not stop crying... I was sobbing non stop for about 20-25mins... and there weren't tears of pain, they were a mix of bitter sweet happy tears and I felt such a subtle sense of recognition of that place...
I can always listen to the teaching of late Tsem Rinpoche...... 🙏🌷 He was such a great teacher with great compassion, who really wants to guide all his students to the path of enlightened. 🪷☸️
Milarepa got to the point , of wanting the dharma he would anything his guru Marpa told him . His self projections were broken . That is when became a vessel for the pure dharma . Peace , love And light for all beings .
" Milarepa was a mystic who lived in Tibet. One day a young man came to him and said, “I want to attain some powers. Please give me a mantra.” Milarepa said, “We don’t have any mantras. We are mystics. Mantras are for magicians, for jugglers - go to them. We don’t have any mantras - why should we need powers?” But the more Milarepa refused, the more the young man thought that there must be something there - why else should he refuse? So he kept returning to Milarepa again and again. Great crowds always gather around the saints who drive people away with sticks or throw stones at them. The crowds think that the saint must have something special otherwise he would not be driving people away. But we don’t realize that attracting people through an advertisement in a newspaper or through throwing stones at them, is the same trick. The propaganda is the same. And the second way is more manipulative and cunning. When people are driven away by someone throwing stones, they don’t understand that they are actually being attracted. This is a subtle way of doing it. And the people do come although they have no idea that they have been seduced. The young man thought that perhaps Milarepa was trying to hide something so he started coming everyday. In the end Milarepa got fed up so he wrote him a mantra on a paper and said, “Take this. Tonight is the night of no moon. Read this five times during the night. If you read it five times, you will get the power you want. Then you will be able to do whatever you want to do. Now go and leave me alone.” The young man grabbed the paper and turned round and ran. He did not even thank Milarepa. But he had not descended the steps of the temple when Milarepa called after him, “My friend! I forgot to tell you one thing. There is a certain condition attached to this mantra. When you read it, you should not have any thoughts in your mind about a monkey.” The young man said, “Don’t be worried, I have never had such a thought in my whole life. There has never been any reason to think of a monkey. I have to read this only five times. There is no problem.” But he made a mistake. He had not even descended to the bottom of the steps when the monkeys started coming. He became very scared. He closed his eyes and there were monkeys inside; he looked outside and even where there were no monkeys, he saw some! It was already night, and every movement in the trees seemed to be a monkey. It seemed that monkeys were everywhere. By the time he got home he was very worried because up until then he had never thought about monkeys. He had never had anything to do with them. He took a bath, but while he was bathing the monkeys were with him. His whole mind was obsessed with only one thing - monkeys. Then he sat down to read the mantra. He picked up the paper, closed his eyes - and there was a crowd of monkeys inside teasing him. He became very much afraid, but still he persevered the whole night. He changed his positions; he tried to sit in this way, in that way, in padmasana, in siddhasana, in other different yoga postures. He prayed, he bowed, he begged; he cried out to anybody to help him get rid of these monkeys. But the monkeys were adamant. They were not ready to leave him that night. By the morning the young man was almost mad with fear and he realized that the mantra power could not be attained so easily. He saw that Milarepa had been very clever, he had put a difficult condition on him. Milarepa was crazy! If there was going to be a hindrance because of the monkeys then at least he should not have mentioned them. Then perhaps the mantra power could have been attained. In the morning he went back to Milarepa crying and said, “Take your mantra back. You have made a big mistake! If monkeys were a hindrance in using this mantra, then you should not have mentioned them. I never usually think of monkeys but the whole of last night the monkeys chased me. Now I will have to wait for my next life to attain this mantra power because in this life this mantra and the monkeys have become united. Now it is not possible to get rid of them.” The monkeys had become united with the mantra. How did they become united? His mind insisted that the monkeys should not be there and so the monkeys came. Whenever his mind tried to get rid of the monkeys, the monkeys appeared. Whenever his mind tried to escape from the monkeys the monkeys came. To forbid is to attract; to refuse is to invite; to prevent is to tempt. Our mind has become very sick because we don’t understand this simple point."
I needed so much to listen this today that I cried. Thank you so much to share your teachings here; truly thankful that I can listen from another part of the world 🙏🏼
90% of the people are normal who will do everyday things. Only 10% might succeed in cultivating this path. This buddha milarepa is very compassionate to humans.
Very interesting indeed. Thank you Sir for sharing this amazing lesson.🙏🙏🙏 Now i understand why certain people react like that the self grasping mind set behavior .
Hi rinpoche, Isn’t it great that today you don’t have to go through guru like Marpa. UA-cam is open to every learner to learn in one’s potential accordingly without any abusiveness and slaving attitude of guru. What do you think of this quote,”ego is the burning flame to life to go on. The evil mind is not due to ego but an ignorant and greedy self images”?
Oh no. How can you discount the value of suffering? Have you ever felt great, soul crushing, hopeless pain? If so then I am sure you can tell me of all the ways it has strengthened you. Pain brings wisdom because it destroys the ego. The ego is the destroyer of wisdom.
I guess they are similar in that they are supposed to break your mind loose. But whereas I could not understand the koan for the life of me, I can see how a person will eventually become malleable and accepting if he is endlessly burdened with difficulty. When life just does not give, the mind give in.
Milarepas story appeals to me in a very special way. It is the depths to which he sank. In Christianity, saints are pure from the beginning. But what sinner could possibly aspire to that? Before finding the holy dharma, my life was marked by homelessness, drug use, and violence. When I finally surrendered, it seemed impossible that I could ever find happiness after so much loss, such pain as to make one sick. I was holding onto sanity by the skin of my teeth. By the power of great merit accumulated over my past lives, I remembered my Buddha nature, I experienced great clarity and knew it was always there, even at the lowest point of my life. By the power of the glorious dharma I have purified my karma, and want everyone to know, there is no action from which you can not recover. The Buddha nature is stainless and faultless. But all obscurations are products of the self grasping mind. Perceptions are fluid and subject to change. This should be your take away. You have power over your perception. Homage to the Buddha for showing this to me.
I needed this teaching right now, and I know others who could use it too, but would never consider it.
after his passing I am still coming back to his teachings. ( I have not met him in person )
What he says is hard , but very truthful. A jewel in this kind of time.
This is the best recorded lecture so far, very profound
🙏ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ 🙏His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche teaching found very persuasive, diligence and made me enlightened to some stent. I met many Buddhist Guru Rimpoche in many parts of Nepal ( Olanchung Gola -100+ years old monk, Panchthar to Surkhet), India, Bhutan, Thailand, Burma, Laos, and Cambodia. They have profound wisdom renowned for their sagacity and witty eloquence. They have been strictly observing all tenets of itinerant monkhood, I have very high respect for them, and their journey to build the world a very peaceful and beautiful place. 🙏🙏Thank you His Eminence the 25th Tsem Rinpoche, my SALUTE And Namaste to you and all Buddist gurus that I metthem!!🙏🙏
🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️ Thank You so much, I will try to remember when self-grasping will knock at the door 🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️🙇🏼♀️♥️🐉🌈
this was such a profoundly helpful teaching... thank you, thank you, thank you ❤🙏
this happened to me when I went to a buddhist cave monastery near phu kradung, Thailand... I saw the image of the reclining buddha and I could not stop crying... I was sobbing non stop for about 20-25mins... and there weren't tears of pain, they were a mix of bitter sweet happy tears and I felt such a subtle sense of recognition of that place...
I can always listen to the teaching of late Tsem Rinpoche...... 🙏🌷
He was such a great teacher with great compassion, who really wants to guide all his students to the path of enlightened. 🪷☸️
Rinpoche , you truly a loving being, this I loved to listen to a teaching that resonates in my heart . ❤thank you so much .
Milarepa got to the point , of wanting the dharma he would anything his guru Marpa told him . His self projections were broken . That is when became a vessel for the pure dharma . Peace , love
And light for all beings .
" Milarepa was a mystic who lived in Tibet. One day a young man came to him and said, “I want to attain some powers. Please give me a mantra.” Milarepa said, “We don’t have any mantras. We are mystics. Mantras are for magicians, for jugglers - go to them. We don’t have any mantras - why should we need powers?” But the more Milarepa refused, the more the young man thought that there must be something there - why else should he refuse? So he kept returning to Milarepa again and again.
Great crowds always gather around the saints who drive people away with sticks or throw stones at them. The crowds think that the saint must have something special otherwise he would not be driving people away. But we don’t realize that attracting people through an advertisement in a newspaper or through throwing stones at them, is the same trick. The propaganda is the same. And the second way is more manipulative and cunning. When people are driven away by someone throwing stones, they don’t understand that they are actually being attracted. This is a subtle way of doing it. And the people do come although they have no idea that they have been seduced.
The young man thought that perhaps Milarepa was trying to hide something so he started coming everyday. In the end Milarepa got fed up so he wrote him a mantra on a paper and said, “Take this. Tonight is the night of no moon. Read this five times during the night. If you read it five times, you will get the power you want. Then you will be able to do whatever you want to do. Now go and leave me alone.” The young man grabbed the paper and turned round and ran. He did not even thank Milarepa. But he had not descended the steps of the temple when Milarepa called after him, “My friend! I forgot to tell you one thing. There is a certain condition attached to this mantra. When you read it, you should not have any thoughts in your mind about a monkey.” The young man said, “Don’t be worried, I have never had such a thought in my whole life. There has never been any reason to think of a monkey. I have to read this only five times. There is no problem.”
But he made a mistake. He had not even descended to the bottom of the steps when the monkeys started coming. He became very scared. He closed his eyes and there were monkeys inside; he looked outside and even where there were no monkeys, he saw some! It was already night, and every movement in the trees seemed to be a monkey. It seemed that monkeys were everywhere. By the time he got home he was very worried because up until then he had never thought about monkeys. He had never had anything to do with them. He took a bath, but while he was bathing the monkeys were with him. His whole mind was obsessed with only one thing - monkeys. Then he sat down to read the mantra. He picked up the paper, closed his eyes - and there was a crowd of monkeys inside teasing him. He became very much afraid, but still he persevered the whole night. He changed his positions; he tried to sit in this way, in that way, in padmasana, in siddhasana, in other different yoga postures. He prayed, he bowed, he begged; he cried out to anybody to help him get rid of these monkeys. But the monkeys were adamant. They were not ready to leave him that night.
By the morning the young man was almost mad with fear and he realized that the mantra power could not be attained so easily. He saw that Milarepa had been very clever, he had put a difficult condition on him. Milarepa was crazy! If there was going to be a hindrance because of the monkeys then at least he should not have mentioned them. Then perhaps the mantra power could have been attained. In the morning he went back to Milarepa crying and said, “Take your mantra back. You have made a big mistake! If monkeys were a hindrance in using this mantra, then you should not have mentioned them. I never usually think of monkeys but the whole of last night the monkeys chased me. Now I will have to wait for my next life to attain this mantra power because in this life this mantra and the monkeys have become united. Now it is not possible to get rid of them.”
The monkeys had become united with the mantra. How did they become united? His mind insisted that the monkeys should not be there and so the monkeys came. Whenever his mind tried to get rid of the monkeys, the monkeys appeared. Whenever his mind tried to escape from the monkeys the monkeys came.
To forbid is to attract; to refuse is to invite; to prevent is to tempt. Our mind has become very sick because we don’t understand this simple point."
I love Milarepa
I needed so much to listen this today that I cried. Thank you so much to share your teachings here; truly thankful that I can listen from another part of the world 🙏🏼
Thank you so much for posting this
90% of the people are normal who will do everyday things.
Only 10% might succeed in cultivating this path.
This buddha milarepa is very compassionate to humans.
My inspiring Guru...🥀🥀🥀🥀🌲🌲🌲👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💖
My teachers names are Bernie and John my name is Fred. This video has transformed my mind. Blessings Rinpoche.
What an astoundingly beautiful man
Dhanyavaad
Very interesting indeed. Thank you Sir for sharing this amazing lesson.🙏🙏🙏 Now i understand why certain people react like that the self grasping mind set behavior .
This is brilliant, thank you very much for this
Thank you for this gem share ✨🙏
Thank you for opening my eyes
Tashi Delek... Om
Next we must develop bodhichitta!
to he EXTREMELY BOOSTED unnaturally high frequencies are like a knife to the ears with each word
🙏🙏🙏❤
Hi rinpoche,
Isn’t it great that today you don’t have to go through guru like Marpa. UA-cam is open to every learner to learn in one’s potential accordingly without any abusiveness and slaving attitude of guru.
What do you think of this quote,”ego is the burning flame to life to go on. The evil mind is not due to ego but an ignorant and greedy self images”?
Oh no. How can you discount the value of suffering? Have you ever felt great, soul crushing, hopeless pain? If so then I am sure you can tell me of all the ways it has strengthened you. Pain brings wisdom because it destroys the ego. The ego is the destroyer of wisdom.
🙏🌹
He is very entertaining monk .
Was.
You can't study, while You doesn't exist. /Annata/
🙏🙏🙏💐💐💐
So profound ! 😅
Im try to pass throw emptiness ommanipadmehum
Thank you ❤
I'm first nation so I'm born off the spirit pure earth
And I'm spoiled ww1 land from grandpa my mental mind wild
Sounds like a koan in zen..
I guess they are similar in that they are supposed to break your mind loose. But whereas I could not understand the koan for the life of me, I can see how a person will eventually become malleable and accepting if he is endlessly burdened with difficulty. When life just does not give, the mind give in.
Too much aggressiv
Listen to what he was saying about Mila Repa. Let go of how you think things should be