Milarepa
Milarepa
UJetsun Milarepais generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets. He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism...
ProfessionPoet
dark doubt lifetime
I knew without a doubt I had found what I had been searching for my whole life, perhaps lifetimes. I was groping in the dark, but I had seen a glimpse, a light, a possibility.
moved
In 1980, Osho left India for America. I, like many other sannyasins, moved to Oregon where work had begun on the 'new commune'. Osho named it Rajneeshpuram.
people atmosphere moved
Moved to Oregon was a big shift for many people, a huge change in the atmosphere from our idyllic life in India as orange-robed meditators, where everything and everyone seemed so 'spiritual'.
wind this-life aim
To attain Buddhahood ... we must scatter this life's aims and objects to the wind.
believe enlightened comment
I have a friend who still believes if Osho had never left India, we would all have been enlightened by now. I won't comment on this.
fog appearance should
One should see that all appearance is like mist and fog.
practice superficial dharma
In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial.
strong freedom thinking
When you are strong and healthy, You never think of sickness coming, But it descends with sudden force, Like a stroke of lightning. When involved in worldly things, You never think of death's approach; Quick it comes like thunder, Crashing round your head.
spiritual cowboy meditation
I will say that cowboy hats and boots replaced our flowing robes and spiritual good looks. At least for the time being! In that central-Oregon desert where thousands would eventually come, work became our meditation.
lowest highest
Take the lowest place, and you shall reach the highest.
buddhist water desire
Desires achieved increase thirst like salt water.
buddhist emptiness compassionate
Know emptiness, Be compassionate.
week
I had been at the Ranch about a year when we opened a nightclub in Portland, Oregon called Zorba the Buddha, where I played in a band every week for one-and-a-half years.
dream yoga night
Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.