Last Updated on January 9, 2025 by pg@petergamma.org
When Peter Gamma from www.petergamma.org
woke up this morning and looked into his refrigerator, he suffered. Only salad in there? Who can life from eating salad the whole day?
And then he had to laugh about his problem. Is it not a problem which is not far from the problem Milarepa had who lived only from needles?
“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 fortunately, Peters situation is bit better than Milarepas. Since at 7:00 the next shop will open near where Peter lives where he can buy some additional food.
No, no, Peter is only joking. He does not want to compare himself with Milarepa, the most famous poet of Tibet who was additionally the founder of the Kagyü-school of Tibetan Buddhism: