Milarepa zugeschrieben
«My religion is to live and die without regret.»
Falsch zugeschrieben
Urteil
Es steht nicht im Werk von Milarepa
Milarepa's most quoted sentence in the West, used as an epigraph by Shambhala and on countless pages, could not be located in that wording either in the Namthar (Lhalungpa, Quintman) or in the Mgur 'bum (Chang). It faithfully conveys the sense of his final teaching but is recorded as unverified.
Was wirklich gesagt wurde
Belegte Worte von Milarepa
«Whoever says that Milarepa possessed gold, let him fill his mouth with excrement.»
Namthar (Tsangnyön Heruka, 1488), capítulo final («Nirvana»): la nota hallada bajo el hogar junto a un trozo de tela, un cuchillo y un terrón de azúcar, tras anunciar a los discípulos que allí había oro
«Seeing this Life, one is freed from the eight worldly concerns. Hearing it, faith arises of itself. Recollecting it, entanglements are severed at the root.»
Versos de cierre del Namthar; son palabras del compilador Tsangnyön Heruka sobre el libro, no de Milarepa, y así deben presentarse. Quintman (2010), pp. 233–234, citado en Quintman (2023)
«My temple is a nameless cave; my clothing, a cotton cloth; my food, the nettles at the door. If others pity me, they do not know what I know.»
Síntesis de la canción con que responde a su hermana Peta en Drakar Taso (Namthar, cap. 10; Chang, vol. 1, canciones de la etapa de retiro). Paráfrasis del sentido, no cita literal