{"id":8255,"date":"2006-05-08T14:24:54","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T12:24:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sangye.it\/altro\/?p=8255"},"modified":"2016-05-08T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T12:32:06","slug":"milarepa-song-to-shakya-guna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sangye.it\/altro\/?p=8255","title":{"rendered":"Milarepa: Song to Shakya Guna"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Milarepa:

Milarepa: Don\u2019t you know that pleasures are just a dream?<\/p><\/div>\n

Milarepa\u2019s Song t<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>o Shakya Guna<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n

Salutation to the teacher of the sacred.
\nJets\u00fcn Milarepa then went from Happy Valley\u00a0in Mang-Y\u00fcl to Nyanang and his former benefactors we overjoyed. \u201cPlease stay always here in Nyanang,\u201d they begged. There was a cave below a belly-shaped boulder between some old trees, and while he resided there, the monk-teacher Shakya Guna and some laypeople of Nyanang came before him.
\n\u201cWhile elsewhere in meditation in mountain retreats, please tell us about the progress you reached and the confidence that you attained,\u201d they asked. In reply, the Jets\u00fcn sang this song.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

I bow at the feet of Marpa the Translator.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While meditating at other mountain retreats,
\nI found confidence in nonarising.
\nMy clinging to former and future lives as two has dissolved.
\nThe six types of experiences have turned to lies.
\nDoubts about birth and death are now cleared.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I found confidence in equality.
\nMy clinging to pleasure and pain as two has dissolved.
\nThe experience of feelings has turned to lies.
\nDoubts about what to accept and reject are now cleared.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I found confidence in indivisibility.
\nMy clinging to samsara and nirvana as two has dissolved.
\nTraining the path and levels has turned to lies.
\nDoubts about hope and fear are now cleared.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The laypeople then said, \u201cWhat other realization arose in you?\u201d Milarepa replied, \u201cI realized the way to go about spiritual practice that accords with the understanding of common people.\u201d He then sang this song.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

When from outside arose the causal conditions of parents,
\nWhen from within arose the all-ground consciousness,
\nAnd in between, when having attained the perfect human body,
\nToday I have avoided a rebirth in the three lower realms.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the experiences of birth and death,
\nWhen from within arose revulsion and faith,
\nAnd in between, when thinking of the sacred Dharma,
\nToday I have escaped the foe of family and home.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the circumstance of the father guru,
\nFrom within arose the intelligence of former training,
\nAnd in between, when having gained a confident understanding,
\nI have no feeling of doubt about the Dharma.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the six classes of beings,
\nWhen from within arose impartial compassion,
\nAnd in between, when remembering the meditation experience,
\nCompassion avoids being mere selfish ambition.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the self-liberated three realms,
\nWhen from within arose self-existing wakefulness,
\nAnd in between, when possessing the confidence of realization,
\nI have avoided the dread of evil.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the fivefold sense-pleasures,
\nWhen from within arose the insight of nonclinging,
\nAnd in between, when engaged in the conduct of equal taste,
\nI avoid clinging to the duality of pleasure and pain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When from outside arose the vanishing of conceptual practice,
\nWhen from within arose the absence of hope and fear,
\nAnd in between, when free from the disease of deliberate effort,
\nI escape the clinging to good and evil as two.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The monk-teacher Shakya Guna then said, \u201cThe Jets\u00fcn\u2019s realization has always been excellent! Though I met the Jets\u00fcn in the past, I have not received an instruction in which I can trust and rely. Now please be kind enough to bestow empowerment and pith instructions upon me!\u201d\u00a0After having given him empowerment and instructions, the Jets\u00fcn sent him to practice meditation. The monk-teacher gained some experience and related it to the Jets\u00fcn.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf these perceptions and samsara do not exist, then there seem to be no need for practice. If the mind does not exist, then there seems to be no doer. If there is no master, then one does not know how to practice. Please clarify these and also give me the pointing-out instruction to the nature of mind.\u201d\u00a0In response, Jets\u00fcn Milarepa sang this song.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

The nature of perceptions is nonarising.
\nIf something arises, it is your clinging to its reality.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The nature of samsara is groundless and rootless.
\nIf something has ground and root, it is your thought.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The nature of mind is unity.
\nIf there is partiality, it is your attachment.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The nature of a master is endowed with\u00a0a lineage.
\nIf you invent your own, you are deluded.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While the mind itself is like the sky,
\nIt becomes obscured by thoughts, like the clouds from the south.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The pith instructions of the qualified guru
\nAre like gusts of strong wind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Thought as well is luminous wakefulness.
\nExperience shines like the sun and moon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Vivid beyond the ten directions and three times,
\nIntangible, it is beyond words.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Its certainty shines like the planets and stars.
\nWhatever arises is great bliss.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Its nature is the simplicity of dharmakaya.
\nThe six sense impressions are the continuity of emptiness.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Effortless, spontaneous, unconditioned,
\nIn this state, beyond self and others,
\nI remain continuously in nonclinging wakefulness,
\nWithout any separation from the three <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>kayas<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>, amazing!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Monk-teacher, do not cling to the fame and happiness of this life. Do not pursue words of sophistry. Equalize your life with practice! Since this is the way to be practiced by everyone, you should practice the meaning of these words.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Then Milarepa sang this song.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

Fortunate and noble people,
\nDon\u2019t you know that the things of this life are beguiling?
\nDon\u2019t you know that enjoyments are magical displays?
\nDon\u2019t you know that samsara is in fact nirvana?
\nDon\u2019t you know that pleasures are just a dream?
\nDon\u2019t you know that that praise and blame are just echoes?
\nDon\u2019t you know that perceptions are just your mind?
\nDon\u2019t you know that your mind is the buddha?
\nDon\u2019t you know that the buddha is dharmakaya?
\nDon\u2019t you know that dharmakaya is your basic\u00a0nature?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When you realize this, all you experience is included within mind.
\nDay and night, look into this mind.
\nWhen looking into this mind, it is not a thing to be seen.
\nLet be in this state of no-seeing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I do not feel that Mahamudra\u2019s nature
\nCan in any way be matched.
\nSo, I remain in the state of nonclinging mind.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Meditation and post-meditation are indivisible,
\nSo, I have no longer meditation stages.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever is experienced is empty in essence,
\nSo there is nothing for mindfulness to hold or lose.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I have tasted the flavor of nonarising,
\nAnd likewise realized its practice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The training in <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>karmamudra<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>,
\nThe practice of the <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>nadis, pranas and bindus<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>,
\nReciting mantras and visualizing the deity,
\nContemplating the four Brahma abodes, and so forth \u2013
\nThese are all ways to enter this Supreme Vehicle.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Even if you were to meditate on them specifically,
\nIt will not suffice to give up desire and anger.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Perceptions are your own mind,
\nSo, understand that this mind is empty.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When you no longer part from the experience of realization,
\nThe keeping of discipline, making offerings, and so forth,
\nAre all contained within that.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After hearing this, the monk-teacher Shakya Guna only practiced and attained an extraordinary level of experience and realization. The Monk-Meditator, T\u00f6ngom, became one of the close disciples.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This was the story of accepting the monk-teacher Shakya Guna in the Belly Cave at Nyanang.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Translated by Erik Pema Kunsang, from The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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