Pianezzo- Spiazzo (Curone)

Ultimo dell' anno, giorno di pioggia, giro di allenamento quasi completamente su asfalto da Lomagna al parco del Curone



THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA
The ever-moving mind is hard to tame
Even when shut up in an iron box;
The lord-like Yogi knows
That all these emanations are illusions.
The disciple then asked, "Are experiences such as you have just
mentioned brought about gradually, or instantaneously?" Milarepa
replied, "Well-endowed people will attain Enlightenment instantane-
ously; average and inferior people will gradually attain their Realiza-
tions. I shall describe to you the signs of real Enlightenment, and
also the signs of those experiences resembling Enlightenment, but
which are wrongly considered by some people to be the real ones."
Thereupon he sang the following song to explain the different ex-
periences, both real and false, of the four stages of Mahamudra,l
I bow down at the feet of the supreme Guru.
To cling to the actuality of mind is the
cause of Saq1sara;
To realize that non-clinging and illuminating
Self-awareness
Is unborn and immanent,
Is the consummation sign of the
Stage of One-Pointedness.
If one talks about the Two-In-One
But still meditates on form,
If one acknowledges the truth of Karma
But still commits wrong-doing,
He is actually meditating with blindness
and passion!
Things, as such, are never found
In the true Stage of One-Pointedness.
In realizing that the non-clinging and
illuminating mind,
Is embodied in bliss and transcends all playwords,2
One sees his mind's nature as clearly as
great Space.
This is the sign of the consummation
Of the Stage of Away-from-Playwords.
Though one talks about the Stage o
The Gray Rock Vajra Enclosure
Away-from-Playwords,
Still he is declaring this and that;
In spite of illustrating what is beyond
· all words,
Still he is but piling words on words.
He then, is the ignorant one,
Who with self-clinging meditates.
In the Stage of Away-from-Playwords,
There is no such thing as this.
The non-diffferentiation of manifestation
and Voidness
Is the Dharmakaya,
In which Saf!lsara and Nirva!)a are felt to be the same.
It is a complete merging of Buddha and
sentient beings.
These are the signs of the Stage of One-Taste,
As many have declared.
He who says that "all is one,"
Is still discriminating;
In the Stage of One-Taste,
There is no such blindness.
A wandering thought is itself the essence
of Wisdom-
Immanent and intrinsic.
Cause and effect are both the same.
This is a realization of Buddha's Three Bodies3
Existing within oneself.
These are the consummation signs
Of the Stage of Non-Practice.
When one talks about Non-Practice,
His mind is still active;
He talks about illumination,
But in fact is blind.
In the Stage of Non-Practice,
There is no such thing!
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The disciple cried, "These instructions are indeed extraordinary! To
help ignorant men like us, pray now, instruct us on the practice of