The Hundred Thousand
Songs of Milarepa
sung by Milarepa
Songs of Milarepa
sung by Milarepa
in Books I Have Loved, Session 1
Called the mGur-Bum in Tibetan, it is usually translated as
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa. In reality, there
are only about 200-220 known songs, the "thousands" of the
title being a literary exaggeration, probably implying they
contain everything the in the universe of the spiritual seeker.
He sang these songs, and eventually they were written down
as part of the Buddhist literature of Tibet. They are sung
more like mantra-chants, or bhajan songs, than common folk
songs.
Milarepa means Mila raspa, "Mila the cotton-clad one."
Called the mGur-Bum in Tibetan, it is usually translated as
The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa. In reality, there
are only about 200-220 known songs, the "thousands" of the
title being a literary exaggeration, probably implying they
contain everything the in the universe of the spiritual seeker.
He sang these songs, and eventually they were written down
as part of the Buddhist literature of Tibet. They are sung
more like mantra-chants, or bhajan songs, than common folk
songs.
Milarepa means Mila raspa, "Mila the cotton-clad one."
| "It is said that once Milarepa, a Tibetan mystic, asked his master, Naropa, "Following you, listening to you, I have dropped everything. But still nothing has happened." Naropa laughed and said, "Drop this also – that you have dropped everything. Drop this also, don't say it any more, because this again is a clinging: I have dropped everything. But the 'I' has remained, and the dropping itself has been converted into doing. The doer has remained." --Osho Vedanta: Seven Steps to Samadhi |
(1052-1135)
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| Osho--Books I Have Loved |