99 Quotes by Milarepa

My religion is to live - and die - without regret.

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

If ye realize the Emptiness of All Things, Compassion will raise within your heart;If ye lose all differentiation between yourselves and others, fit to serve others ye will be;And when in serving others ye shall win success, then shall ye meet with me;And finding me, ye shall attain to Buddhahood.

When one comes to the essence of being,The shining wisdom of realityIllumines all like the cloudless sky.

The world knows caterpillar becomes butterfly but they don’t care that it also becomes a moth. One is diurnal another nocturnal.Human once awakened can change the view to change self from Angulimala to a Buddha

At firs,money is like the wish-fulfilling GemLater,it becomes indispensableIn the end;you feel like a penniless beggarThese are my thoughts and feelings on moneySo I renounced both wealth and goods

He who avoids misunderstandings,Amused at the play of his own mind,Is ever joyful.

When I took sannyas in 1976, Osho was living in Pune, India. During these early years, I came and went from the ashram many times. When I was there I meditated, did groups, attended discourse, and finally at some point jumped into work. Osho seemed like god to me then representing something unreachable, unattainable.

I felt like I was standing in a deep valley looking at a far away Himalayan peak. I can see now this was more my own projection for my understanding since is: The master is only as far away as you are from yourself.