THE BLISS OF INNER FIRE Even if you could stay in samadhi meditation twenty-four hours a day for twenty days, Milarepa would say to you, “That means nothing! It does not compare to my inner fire meditation.” This is how he responded to Gampopa at their first meeting, after Gampopa had described his meditation experiences. There must have been a reason for Milarepa to say this. He was not just making propaganda, exaggerating the power of inner fire. He had no partiality and had given up all worldly competition. Milarepa was simply saying that even remaining for many days in a deep, undisturbed samadhi meditation is nothing when compared to inner fire meditation. Inner fire is incomparable..... This is because the mind rides on the internal winds, and without stabilizing them, bringing them together in the central channel, and releasing the (granthis) the knots around the heart, the mind will continue back into familiar karmic patterns of behaviour, even if grounded in meditation the danger can still arise....
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 18:47:58 +0000
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