Milarepa
An ancient Tibetan Teacher.
The Teacher Milarepa often conversed with animals. Near his retreat bees nested, ants built cities, parrots flew about, and a monkey was accustomed to perch himself in imitation of the Teacher. The Teacher said to the ants: “Tillers and builders, no one knows of you, yet you raise up lofty communities.” He said to the bees: “You gather the honey of knowledge and of the best forms, let no one interrupt your sweet labor.” He remarked to a parrot: “By your screeching I see that you are preparing yourself to be a judge or a preacher.” And he admonished the mischievous monkey: “You have destroyed the ant’s structure and have stolen another’s honey. Perhaps you have decided to become a usurper.”
Who, if not the usurper, appropriates another’s labor and casually wrecks structures under the heel? Many centuries have passed since the time of the Teacher Milarepa, but usurpers, with the psychology of monkeys, live as before. (COM, 193)
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