Madonna del Bosco

Percorso ad anello tra la collina di Sartirana e il fiume Adda partendo dal santuario della Madonna del Bosco e passando per Brivio




THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA
In the Yoga of Non-wandering,12
The Six non-attached Senses e'er arise,
Yet I remain steadfast in the inseparable Trikaya.
Unattached, I walk with power;
Free from clinging, I gain
The wish-fulfilling merits.13
A wise man knows how to practice
The space-like meditation.
In all he does by day
He attaches himself to nothing.
With a liberated spirit,
He desires nor wealth nor beauty.
One should see that all appearance
Is like mist and fog;
Though one has vowed to liberate all
sentient beings,
He should know that all manifestations
Are like reflections of the moon in water.
Without attachment, he knows
That the human body is but a magic spell.
So from all bindings he gains freedom.
Like the immaculate lotus growing out of mud,
He attains the conviction of Practice.
The mind is omnipresent like space;
It illumines all manifestations as the Dharmakaya;
It knows all and lightens all.
I see it clearly like a crystal
In my palm!
In the beginning, nothing comes;
In the middle, nothing stays;
At the end, nothing goes.
Of the mind there is no arising and extinction!
Thus, one remains in the Equality of past,
present, and future.
Immanent, the mind, like the sky, is pure.
The red and white clouds14 vanish of themselves;
No trace of the Four Elements ~ can be found.
The Gray Rock V ajra Enclosure
The omnipresent mind resembles Space:
It never separates from the Realm of the Unborn,
It cuts the path of the Three Worlds of Sarpsara.
This is the conviction of Enlightenment.
If a yogi realizes this,
When he leaves his mortal body
And enters into the [momentous] Bardo,16
He may then perfect all merits.
With an understanding of the profound instruction.
One makes the Mother and Son Minds17 meet;
If he then fails to unite them,
Through the teaching of the Simultaneously Born
He can still transform the phantom Bardo form
Into the Pure Body of Bliss!
If he knows that even the Sambhogakaya is
unreal, like a shadow,
How can he ever go astray?
This is infallibly my own-
The yogi's sure conviction about Bardo!
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The people of Gu Tang were all strongly confirmed in their faith,
and thereafter often brought offerings to Milarepa.
One day, in the very early morning, Milarepa, in a state of Il-
lumination, saw the Vajra l)akini appear before him. She prophesied:
"1\,lilarepa! You will have one sun-like, one moon-like, twenty-three
star-like, and twenty-five accomplished human disciples; one hundred
enlightened beings who never fall back; one hundred and eight great,
men who will attain the initial Realization of the Path;18 and one
thousand male and female yogis who will enter the Path. Those who,
with you, have the affinity of Dharma and thus forever escape the
lower path of Sarpsara, are beyond number. In the upper part of
Gung Tang there is a destined man, who will be your moon-like
disciple. Go there for his sake." And so Milarepa set his mind upon
going to the Upper Gung Tang.
This is the first of the series of stories of the Gray Rock