Tuesday, June 10, 2014

What is the Truth?

Lama Milarepa (1040-1123)
Tibet’s greatest poet-saint.
Milarepa is said to have attained Nirvana in a single lifetime!
One of his great teachings on Truth:

'All worldly pursuits have but the one unavoidable and inevitable end, 
which is sorrow.
Acquisition ends in dispersion,
Building, in destruction,
Meeting, in separation,
Birth, in death.

Knowing this one should set about realizing the Truth.
Life is short and
The time of death is uncertain,
So apply yourself to meditation … 

Therefore, every moment of life is to be lived calmly, mindfully as if it were the last,
to ensure that the most is made of the precious human state'

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