Milarepa meditated in solitratry retreat until his skin turned green – was there no better solution for him?

Last Updated on March 16, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

The stunning lesson in impermanence gave Milarepa the final push he needed to follow Marpa’s command to meditate in mountain retreat. He stayed there for many years, until his clothes turned to rags, his bones protruded, and the nettles he ate turned his skin green. Hunters and thieves who came upon him thought he was a ghost. When he went begging for food, his uncle, aunt, and neighbors attacked him, and he barely escaped. His sister, who had also become a beggar, wept in misery at his apparently even sorrier state.

But Milarepa became the most famous poet of Tibet and the founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism.

Why was he not supported better by someone, as for instance priests of the Roman Catholic Church are supported, as for instance Dr. iur. Artur Czastkiewicz:

Milarepa, founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism versus Tenzin Michael, one of the first Buddhist monks who is trained with a brain scanner?

And also long-term meditators with mental issues are supported in Switzerland as their lifetime journey, as long as no one is capable of healing those. And as long as they do not become from sinners as supported people are for some to a saint as Milarepa became after his enlightement, they will be continued to be supported. Supported until they are supported by church taxes, if they become to saints as Milarepa became after his enlightement. And if meditators with mental issues become to saints who teach in the Roman Catholic Church, they will be supported by the Church Tax of the Roman Catholic Church instead.