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Milarepa
Rechungpa's
Pride
Rechungpa
had just returned from India complete with new learning, instructions
in various meditations, skill in logic, and a swollen head. In order to
clear up Rechungpa's pride and arrogance, Milarepa sang :
Oh, my son, your pride in what you learned
Will lead you well astray!
To preach
a lot, with empty words,
Ruins your good experience and meditation.
To be swollen with pride and arrogance
Proves you have betrayed the Guru's precepts.
Nothing gives cause for more regret
Than disobedience to the Guru
No one is more distracted and confused
Than he who ceases to meditate in solitude.
Nothing is more fruitless
Than a Buddhists who renounces not his kin.
Nothing is more shameful
Than a learned Buddhist who neglects his meditation.
Nothing is more disgraceful
Than a monk who violates the rules.
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