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Buddhist : Tibetan 11th Century	About Milarepa Timeline (1052 - 1135)
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English version by Marpa Translation Committee Original Language Tibetan	The Profound Definitive Meaning
Commentary by Ivan M. Granger Themes   Heart   Light   Water   Womb     Recommended Books Drinking the Mountain Stream: Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Milarepa, Translated by Lama Kunga / Translated by Brian Cutillo The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa: The Life-Story and Teachings of the Greatest Poet-Saint Ever to Appear in the History of Buddhism, Translated by Garma C. C. Chang The Life of Milarepa: A New Translation from the Tibetan, Translated by Lobsang P. Lhalungpa Magnificent Trickster: The Story of Milarepa, by Molly MacGregor Songs of Milarepa: (Dover Thrift Edition), by Milarepa More >>	For the mind that masters view the emptiness dawns In the content seen not even an atom exists A seer and seen refined until they're gone This way of realizing view, it works quite well When meditation is clear light river flow There is no need to confine it to sessions and breaks Meditator and object refined until they're gone This heart bone of meditation, it beats quite well When you're sure that conducts work is luminous light And you're sure that interdependence is emptiness A doer and deed refined until they're gone This way of working with conduct, it works quite well When biased thinking has vanished into space No phony facades, eight dharmas, nor hopes and fears, A keeper and kept refined until they're gone This way of keeping samaya, it works quite well When you've finally discovered your mind is dharmakaya And you're really doing yourself and others good A winner and won refined until they're gone This way of winning results, it works quite well.
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Commentary by Ivan M. Granger

Seer and seen refined until they're gone...

Look deeply enough, with your whole being, and the two merge. The object disappears into you. You disappear into it. Seer and seen are gone! What is left but a field living awareness?

...it works quite well.

Have a beautiful day, and remember to take a look around you. Who knows what adventure that glance might initiate?

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