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
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.
tease valuable deeper-meaning
I always felt teasing came alongside a deeper meaning, as if [Osho] wanted to convey something immensely valuable to me.
enough
It felt more than enough just to be in the [Osho] presence.
sometimes mice
Sometimes I experienced [Osho] like a lion, playing with me, a small mouse.
fun black beard
In Los Angeles, I had shaved my beard and dyed my hair black just for a change, to have some fun.
ecstatic being-loved
[Osho had said] nothing short of ecstatic: like being loved deeper than I had ever been before; like being seen to the core by someone and showered completely with love. Soaking you! I have never felt the word 'yes' so deeply in my entire life.
meditation vision care
Taking care of the music around Osho for me has been about allowing things to expand and flow with him, so that the music reflects as clearly as possible his vision and the things we are continually learning by being with him. In this way, music has became my meditation.
meditation world mysterious
I had speaking darshans with Osho in the early days of sannyas, my relationship with him has never been a personal one. It was and still is an inner one, something deeply connected with the mysterious world of meditation. However, as I moved deeper into meditation, so did my relationship with Osho change and become more intimate.
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.
waiting flight boundaries
I was in England waiting for a flight to India, when I received a message from Shunyo (already in Bombay at this point) that Osho had answered one of my questions during the previous night's discourse. On hearing this, I experienced a love that knows no boundaries, no time.
individual
[Osho] discourses took on more and more the flavor of Zen and it was clear he wanted each of us to become our own individual, not dependent on anybody else. Including him! Nor dependent on anything, even the Commune.
gratitude giving joy
[Osho] knows our love arises from very deep feelings of gratitude. He knows we only want to do our best, to give our best to him, all that we are capable of, as this is our joy.
buddhist regret dies
My religion is to live and die without regret.
buddhist compassion differences
Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others