Bedulita

Escursione a bassa quota in valle
Imagna tra Bedulita, Roncola e Strozza





Listen to me, you heavenly and human beings here
assembled.
On the summit of the Eagle Mountain
Upon the Seat of Eight Non-Fears4
Sits the Victorious One, Buddha Sakyamuni.
In the Dharma Palace of the Heaven of Og Men5
Abides the Sixth Buddha, Great Dorje-Chang, the
Wisdom Body of Not-Two.
The great Mother, the Goddess, is Dagmema;
The Transformation Body of the Inborn is the great
Tilopa;
The Teacher, the Door-Protector,6 is the great Naropa;
The Buddha-like Translator is the great Marpa.
From these four Deities, I receive grace and blessings.
I, Milarepa, the renowned and celebrated one,
Following the order of my Guru, Marpa,
For the welfare of all men
Meditate on Di Se Snow Mountain.
To you, the wrong-view-holder Bonist,
I now give answer with this song:
The famous Di Se Mountain blanketed with snow
Symbolizes the pure, white Buddhist doctrine.
The streams flowing into the famous Blue Lake of
MaPam
Symbolize one's deliverance to the Realm of
the Absolute.
I, the famous Milarepa, the old man who sleeps naked,
Am he who now transcends the dualistic realm!
The little songs springing from my mouth
Are but the natural outflow of my heart;
They tell of, and describe the Sutras of the Buddha.
The staff held in my hand
Symbolizes the crossing of the ocean of Saq1sara.
I have mastered both the mind and form
THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA
Unaided by worldly deities
I can perform all miracles.
Di Se, where dwell worldly Devas with crude bodies,7
Is the king of all snow mountains on this earth.
This place belongs to Buddhists,
To the followers of Milarepa.
If you, Bon priests and heretics, will now practice
the Dharma,
You, too, will soon be able to benefit all;
If not, you should depart and go elsewhere,
Because my powers of magic are greater far than yours.
Watch closely now and see what I can dol
At this, Milarepa performed another miracle by putting the whole
Ma Pam Lake on his finger-tip, without doing the slightest harm to the
living beings in it. The Bon priest said, "In this first contest, your mir-
acle was better than mine. But I carne here first. We must have another
contest to see which of us is lhe more powerful." Milarepa replied, "I
shall not emulate you, the magician who smears drugs on his body in
order to deceive others by conjuring up delusive visions. I will not enter
into any contest with such a person. If you do not wish to follow the
teachings of the Buddha, you may go elsewhere." The Bon priest coun-
tered, "I will not renounce the teaching of the Swastica-Bon. If you
win the contest, I will give up and go away. Otherwise, I will never
leave here. According to the Buddhist precepts, you may not kill or
harm me. Is this not so? Now let us fight with our supernatural powers."
Thereupon, the Bon priest started to circle Di Se Snow Mountain
from right to left, while Milarepa and his followers circled it clockwise.
They met on a big rock in the northeastern valley of Di Se. The Bon-
ist said to Milarepa, "It is very good that you [pay homage to this holy
place] by circumambulating it. Now, yoti should follow the Bon way
of circling the mountain." Saying this, he took Milarepa by the hand
and dragged him in his direction. The Jctsun retorted, "I will not follow
your wrong path and reverse the Buddhist tradition. I think it better
that you follow me and adopt the Buddhist way of making the circle."
Saying this, Milarepa in turn grabbed the Bon priest's hand and dragged
him in his direction. Pulling each other back and forth on the rock,
both the Jetsun and the Bon priest left many of their footprints there.
But because the power of Milarepa was much greater than that of the
priest, he was forced to follow l\1ilarepa's direction.
When they reached the north side of Di Se, the priest said, "L