Liberation in One Lifetime: Biographies and Teachings of Milarepa by Francis V. Tiso

Author:Francis V. Tiso
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
ISBN: 9781583947944
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2014-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

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he kept to a diet of nettles. Even his body took on the green color of nettles.70

After a long time, Peta came, bringing along a half peck of parched barley and butter packed in skins. She saw the renunciate’s body, colored all over like the green of nettles, and she thought: “My brother is without anything to eat—this is the reason for his condition. That is why he is this color—he looks like a dead man.” So she thought, and she wept many tears. Then she thought to boil some cold water for soup. But when Mila Happy Report picked up the pot, he could not hold it in his hand—it slipped away and broke and a disk of dried food shaped like the pot came out. The disk rolled around and down the mountain. Many people heard that this had happened. Some heard about it and wept (‘chi ma shor), and for some, faith arose.71 Peta went to the village for him. He dwelt alone by himself, meditating.

Men of sNye nam who had gathered the feathers of many eagles came to his cave. Having seen the green color of the body of Saint Mila, the feather gatherers said: “It’s an elf [i.e., a nonhuman]!” Light rays pass through him! (‘o zer nas). Mila said to them: “I am not an elf!” “So what is your name?” “I am the son of Shes rab rgyal mtshan of rTsa, Mid la Happy Report.” Thus the feather-gatherers came to know the facts. They also offered him some excellent provisions. They also started to use nettles for food and exerted themselves in meditation. A small experience of the illusory body arose; at night, they finally saw the streaks of the clear light.

Then a few women disciples from Gung Thang heard that a son of Shes rab rgyal mtshan of rTsa, called Happy Report,

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