Should we learn from Antoine Lutz or should we lean from Milarepa?

Last Updated on May 17, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org

Antoine Lutz was first author of the PNAS paper from 2004:

Long-term meditators self-induce high-amplitude gamma synchrony during mental practice

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0407401101

Antoine Lutz is a writer of papers about meditation since about 20 years:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=biXgcqQAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao

Antoine Lutz went trough a personal transformation:

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Antoine Lutz teaches meditation together with with Mingyur Rinpoche on the YouTube channel of Mind & Life Europe:

Milarepa

started as a sinner who killed more than 80 people by his occult power:

• Milarepa received the whole teaching as to how to attain one’s fullest enlightenment from a Guru in India.

1400. Theravāda Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro: «In the Buddhist tradition you are not completely sane until you are fully enlightened» – Tibets most famous poet Milarepa (950 -1052) received the whole teaching as how to attain one’s fullest enlighenment in one lifetime from a Guru who lived in India

• 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.

1400. Theravāda Buddhist monk Ajahn Amaro: «In the Buddhist tradition you are not completely sane until you are fully enlightened» – Tibets most famous poet Milarepa (950 -1052) received the whole teaching as how to attain one’s fullest enlighenment in one lifetime from a Guru who lived in India

Milarepa went trough personal transformation.

Milrepa the sinner

Milrepa the meditator who meditates in solitary retreat who eats needles so that his skin turned green:

And finally the Saint Milarepa

• the most famous poet of Tibet
• the founder of the Kagyü school of Tibetan Buddhism

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