“Be a Lion-like who dares to face.”

Master Milarepa story…

Despite his remote living situation he attracted many disciples and visitors, and although he belonged to no school he is particularly venerated by the Tibetan Kagyus, who trace their lineage back through him.Milarepa was a master of Mahamudra, a meditation approach that emphasizes the innate purity of the mind. In his inimitable and playful style, Milarepa compares the unawakened self to a dog running after a stick that has been thrown. When it comes to chasing sticks, many dogs have more enthusiasm than sense: I remember, for example, a friend’s dogs repeatedly charging into a Scottish loch to “fetch” the stones that I was throwing into the depths. Often our own minds are scarcely less silly than those dogs.

Milarepa’s way how to become a lion – like…

Firstly, we turn, like a lion, and look directly at the mind itself. What can we expect to find? At the beginning, we can expect to see thoughts arising and passing away, liberating themselves without us having to exert any effort to rid the mind of them.
Secondly, we can see the space of awareness within which these thoughts arise. That awareness is pure, and unstained by the thoughts that pass through it. That awareness is your Buddha nature, your own potential enlightenment.

All thoughts arise in this stainless awareness and dissolve within it. To see the nature of those thoughts clearly, Milarepa tells us elsewhere, is to see that there never was any arising or passing away: that all thoughts are empty of self-existence and lacking in essence. Thoughts, he tells us are illusory. It’s only our delusion that makes us think of them as real, and so, over and over, we go plunging into the lake to retrieve the unretreievable.

Although we tend to think or spiritual awakening as lying at the end of a long and arduous task, it’s right here, right now, just waiting for us to stop chasing sticks and instead, lion-like, to turn and look deeply into our own mind, and its thought, and to see their nature.

From one Lioness to all of you up there, smile.

~Veronika, Prielozna, MA, C-IAYT, in a process of creating breath/ meditation program for fall 2022. “Come as you are!”

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Milarepa: “When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick.”

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