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Milarepa
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Advice on Rechungpa's Pride
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advice sung by Milarepa to try to cure Rechungpa's pride :
It is fine that father and son are in harmony ---
Maintaining harmony with people is a great merit;
But the best merit is to keep in harmony with one's father.
If one is discordant with all the people he knows
He must be a person ominous or obnoxious.
Yet even more ominous is discord between father and son.
Good it
is to maintain harmony with one's father by right deeds,
Good it is to repay one's mother's kindness and bounties
Good it is to act in concord with all.
One's wish
can be fulfilled
If one is on good terms with one's brothers,
To please one's Guru
Is to gain his blessings;
A good Buddhist is one who conquers all bad dispositions.
Kindness,
is toleration of slanders;
To be modest is to gain fame and popularity;
To maintain pure discipline
Is to do away with pretence and concealment;
To live with a sage is to gain improvement;
To be indifferent is to stop all gossip;
To be good and compassionate is to advance one's Bodhi-mind.
These are things that a wise man should do,
But a fool can never distinguish friend from foe.
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