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UJetsun Milarepa (Tibetan: རྗེ་བཙུན་མི་ལ་རས་པ, Wylie: rje btsun mi la ras pa) (c. 1052 – c. 1135 CE) is generally considered one of Tibet's most famous yogis and poets. He was a student of Marpa Lotsawa, and a major figure in the history of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism.[citation needed]

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I had speaking darshans with Osho in the early days of sannyas, my relationship with him has never been a personal one. It was and still is an inner one, something deeply connected with the mysterious world of meditation. However, as I moved deeper into meditation, so did my relationship with Osho change and become more intimate.

Meditation, World, Mysterious, Become, Intimate, Change

If one stays too long with friends They will soon tire of him; Living in such closeness leads to dislike and hate. It is but human to expect and demand too much When one dwells too long in companionship.

Buddhist, Hate, Leads, Long, Tire

My religion is not deceiving myself.

Deceiving, Religion

Mental activity in the daytime creates a latent form of habitual thought which again transforms itself at night into various delusory visions sensed by the semi-consciousness. This is called the deceptive and magic-like Bardo of Dream.

Delusory, Dream, Night, Sensed, Transforms, Yoga

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing.

Desire, Needs, Nothing, Seek

In the gap between thoughts nonconceptual wisdom shines continuously.

Continuously, Gaps, Shines, Shining, Thoughts, Wisdom

I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

Desire, Experience, Finals, Having, Intermediate, Suffering

Deep in the wild mountains, is a strange marketplace,where you can trade the hassle and noise of everyday life, for eternal Light.

Everyday, Light, Mountain, Strange

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death. Knowing this, one should, from the very first, renounce acquisitions and storing-up, and building, and meeting; and, faithful to the commands of an eminent Guru, set about realizing the Truth. That alone is the best of religious observances.

Buddhist, Knowing, Observances, Realizing, Religious, Set

In harvesting of evil deeds, the human race is busy; and doing so is to taste the pangs of Hell. . . The piling up of wealth is the piling up of others' property; what one thus storeth formeth but provisions for one's enemies. . . I wash off human scandal by devotion true; and by my zeal, I satisfy the Deities. By compassion, I subdue the demons; all blame I scatter to the wind, and upward turn my face.

Compassion, Provisions, Race, Scandal, Wind

Accustomed long to contemplating love and compassion I have forgotten all difference between myself and others

Buddhist, Compassion, Difference, Differences, Forgotten, Long

He who knows that all things are his mind, That all with which he meets are friendly, Is ever joyful.

Friendly, Happiness, Meets, Mind

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

Buddhist, Capturing, Done, Mind, Mountain, Nature

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick

Chasing, Dog, Run, Running, Sticks, Thoughts

When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.

Dog, Lion, Lions, Run, Running, Throws

Hasten slowly and ye shall soon arrive.

Arrivals, Arrive, Awareness, Haste, Hasten, Slowly

My religion is to live and die without regret.

Rest In Peace, Buddhist, Regret, Die, Live

In the monastery of your heart, you have a temple where all Buddhas unite.

Buddhas, Heart, Monasteries, Temples, Unite

Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

Acquire, Ashamed, Evil, Life Is Short, Meditation, Rule