Like an example, if you look at the history of all the great different masters, some of them had this great experience, clairvoyant and the next thing you know they made a terrible mistake again. Then “Ah great experience” and then you go a few more pages and then they made a very stupid mistake again. Then eventually of course the enlightened realised being and so on and so forth, if you open your eyes and read the biography carefully. And then even having a greatest master next to you doesn’t solve your problem either.
Like example Milarepa who have gone through so much suffering, made a terrible mistake, gone through so much suffering, got praised by Naropa and seeing Milarepa as equal of the Mahasiddha of India. In the Land of Snow Mountain there is “Töpa Ga” [Joyous to Hear] and then I praise to this enlightened being. So that is how Naropa praised to Milarepa.
Okay, he’s a great guy, great enlightened being, whatever, give him a medal whatever, okay, great, great, great. So there is nothing beyond him. So Buddha was already passed away a long time ago, so Milarepa is the only solution that you have. He is not only a Rinpoche, he is beyond Rinpoche. He is not even Holiness, he is beyond that. He is a Mahasiddha, he is like Vajradhara, he is like the Buddha, living Buddha.
Some people criticize him because they were jealous of him and so on and so forth. Then he has a student called Rechung Dorje Drakpa, Rechen, Rechung means like “the one who wear the small white cloth and the big white cloth”. Milarepa wear nothing but the white cloth.
So Rechungpa got upset because people talking bad to Milarepa. He got really upset. Then he wanted to hurt these people, those who criticized Milarepa. So then what did Rechungpa did, try to do, actually did? He tried to learn the black magic again! [haha] The Milarepa mistake was not enough. You understand?
So then what you do really comes down to you. You can have the greatest one next to you, there is nothing around, there is no student competition. In the middle of nowhere, there is Milarepa and there is you. There is no 200 people competing your position or wanting to be the general secretary or wanting to be the regent. You understand what I mean?
Like if you look at all the religious world and everybody is like moving away, left and right and this and that. There is no political game, there is no competition, there is nothing. There is just a bunch people who are not happy with Milarepa because they are jealous, okay. Milarepa didn’t care. Milarepa said “I don’t care, they are jealous, so what”.
Rechung Dorje Drakpa right next to Milarepa, the living Buddha, said “I’m not satisfied, I want to learn the black magic again so I can give an example, I can make a good example out of it”.
So you can have a great enlightened being, but then if you don’t cherish that, practice Dharma genuinely, even the enlightened being right next to you cannot save you.
So therefore, whatever you are in life, whoever the great master you have met, always maintain your foundation, the core foundation, the Bodhicitta, compassion and dedication to all the sentient beings. That root and awareness of your own mind, awareness of your own emotion that always have to be held together. You understand?
Six-Armed Mahakala Teachings – Vajradhara Ling France
July 13, 2024 – Morning session (1h 27′ 10”)
To be continued…
༄༅། །རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ་ལ་བསྟོད་པ།
Homage to Milarepa
by Nāropa
བྱང་ཕྱོགས་མུན་པའི་སྨག་རུམ་ན། །
jangchok münpé makrum na
In the darkness of the lands to the North
གངས་ལ་ཉི་མ་ཤར་འདྲ་བའི། །
gang la nyima shar drawé
Is one just like a snow-capped peak in the rising sun,
ཐོས་པ་དགའ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཡི། །
töpa ga zhé jawa yi
He who is known as Töpa Ga, ‘Joyous to Hear,’
སྐྱེས་བུ་དེ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ། །
kyebu dé la chaktsal lo
To that great being, I pay homage!
Nāropa spontaneously sang this praise to Milarepa.
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