Sadhguru from India tells us the story of Milarepa and how he became enlightened
Sadhguru:
…
Marpa initiated Milarepa,
and on the very third day,
Milarepa had a vision of a Dakini. (*1).
You heard of Dakini?
In the trantric technology of doing things,
for every chakra, they created one goddess.
A female form which has been consecrated.
and made alive which can be called for to do things.
Nodody does anything significant,
without the help of these forces.
So the Dakini came in his vison,
and she said:
Marpa has given you teachings,
but without one fundamental aspect,
which he himself does not know.
You seek it from him, ask him if he knows.
Then Milarepa went to where Marpa was.
Marpa looked at him and said,
«Why are you here?»
Then he said,
a Dakini came and said,
I don t know if this is for real,
or this is my imagination.
But this is what happened,
so I had to come and ask you.
Marpa bowed down to Milarepa and said.
«Even I don’ t have that teaching,
so let’s go back to India.
Both of them traveled back to India,
to Marpa’s Guru,
who was somewhere at the border of Nepal and Bihar.
So they walked all the way,
they went there,
and when Marpa said this to the Guru,
that like this the Dakini came and said this,
that this particular teaching has not happened.
The Guru looked at him and said:
«This is not yours,
this could not have happened to you.
How did you get this?“
Then Marpa said:
«This is not me, this is one of my disciples».
Then the Guru turned towards Tibet and bowed down.
He said:
«at last in the dark north,
one little light has happened».
So, he called Milarepa and Marpa,
and gave the whole teaching,
as to how to attain one’s fullest
enlightenment in this life.
And they came back,
and Marpa who started as a Guru,
became like a disciple to Milarepa.
Milarepa became a shining light in the Tibetan culture.
Lot of things that have been done in the last 300 – 400 years
in the Tibtan culture,
Is essentially from the basis of what Milarepa has set up.
(*1) A Dakini is a spiritual being in the mythology of Tantra in Hinduism and Buddhism who brings the souls of the dead to heaven.
Theravāda Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro
about
“mental health” & “enlightened”
«In the Buddhist tradition you are not completely sane until you are fully enlightened»
- Amaro has authored or co-authored about 30 books, all for free distribution.
- The quote in the title above of Ajahn Amaro can be found in the book:
The Mind’s Own Physician:
A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama
on the Healing Power of Meditation:
published in 2011
editors are
Jon Kabat-Zinn & Richard Davidson
The quote of Ajahn Amaro can be found on page 33, second paragraph of the page:
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