Mystic of the Month Preview - Milarepa

welcome to synchronicity we have a special episode this week if you haven't been hanging around the patreon then you might not know about this one but I started a feature there called mystic of the month or it's starting today where I'm going over a mystic that is a vaguely loose term that basically just means anyone who has been a mystic throughout all of recorded time and that gives me a little bit of leeway and who I choose but you know there's some acknowledged ones the first one we're doing is millarepa the great Tibetan yogi considered a Buddha by many in the Tibetan Vajrayana tradition and these episodes are gonna be about they're at least an hour long where we go over the life of these mystics and some of the cool things that happen to them and their perspectives and whatnot so we're doing that every month I'm trying to get the episodes out probably mid month every time that gives me enough time to finish one research the other get the other one out and that's going on in the 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don't fear the wobble before I go so we can get that out while I'm there but yeah this episode is a preview of the mystic of the month it's about the half of it I'm gonna fade it out in the middle if you want to go catch the other half that's gonna be on the patreon but that's what we are doing this week so you can get a taste of what it's gonna be like and see if you like it maybe you're like I don't give a shit about milli wrap up I feel like you should it's pretty fucking badass but maybe like I just don't care that's cool but we're gonna be doing this every month so I wanted to let you know you guys are the best best fans ever I appreciate all the emails and just kind words from everyone who gets in touch on Instagram and Twitter and email and the patron and all that stuff like you guys really are the best I think I have some of the best I've said so much wild shit at this point that for the fans who are here are the people who tune in to this show or me and whatever I'm saying into a microphone you're kind of the coolest people at least in my world because you you at least hopefully understood that a lot of the stuff I say is usually meant with love and if not I try my best to correct that down the line anyway rambling intro accomplished without further ado here is the mystic of the month preview for the month of May milli wrap up welcome to mystic of the month for May 2024 this is the first time we're doing this this is a relatively contrived title it's just an excuse for basically me to research and or share someone who I think embodies the qualities of a mystic that's some that what that means essentially someone who seems to be tapped into some aspect of consciousness that is not necessarily perceived by the five senses that we know and love right but an actual way to tap into some truths or things that seem resonant or make sense or there's something to investigate there like what are they saying there or that makes a lot of sense and I'm not sure why or oh I know why that makes sense that's super wise so it hits a lot of different parts of us it can be an intellectual curiosity it can be a skeptical curiosity it can be a weird affinity towards or an attraction to or something that just kind of like pulls on our heartstrings or just something that we don't really know why we're drawn to it but we are and this can be someone who is like millorepa who really with the words we know and about the actions and the deeds of his life those are essentially the you know things we know about him like we don't hear the millorepa songs right we know the words of them we know the lyrical content but we don't necessarily have the ability to hear what the song sounded like nor would we necessarily even like the actual sound of those songs although I imagine if they were kind of like divine wisdom melodies and we understood the words like you would probably like but we don't that's the point like it doesn't have to be someone who is doing the present thing they're claiming to do a lot of this stuff is second third-hand fourth and fifth-hand information millorepa definitely the case millorepa includes that so for some context of who we're talking about when dealing specifically with millorepa this was a dude who was born in 1052 right what we know is the year 1052 and died you know around 70-80 years later right and the main principle text that people will use to piece together his life is from a biography depending on who you ask an autobiography but a biography of someone named song young haruka also get ready for me to butcher some Tibet names I'm not going to get the deep into the weeds I do recommend if you want like an intro into millorepa is the life and story of millorepa by song young haruka that is translated into like you know a few different virgins I listen to the audiobook there's also you know a physical tax translated by multiple people which is really just kind of what we're going to be going over today but obviously looking at it through a lens of how practically can this help us in the 21st century we'll be here for a little bit that's safe to say I'm covering my bases when I say 21st century but it's just a really interesting life the character of millorepa has always resonated with me personally I think there's an aspect what I really like about millorepa is he had a very complicated life I think that's the initial draw for a lot of people that's short yeah he you know he did some stuff he murdered some people he was in this tragic soap opera type of situation with revenge and black magic but after he studied with marpa right his teacher he basically then became almost like a missile shot two places that were notoriously like bad vibes like that was that was his move he was like I'm going to bad vibes place and I'm gonna emanate good vibes and that's gonna beat the bad vibes and it's a simplistic rendition or like characterization of what that is but that is kind of what it is but he did it in a bunch of specific ways he did it through songs of wisdom of Dharma songs you would call them of you know basically saying the way the of the world and it being so true that these like demonic beings essentially are like oh you're right millorepa sorry that we tried to harsher buzz and everyone's buzz in this area you know we're demons this is what we do sorry about that and this kind of wisdom of reality and unreality made a substantial change in that region or in those people's lives or an adherence or people now it's also important to like I don't know if it's important but I'm going to do it to talk about the historical you know where Tibetan Buddhism fits into all religious beliefs it wouldn't be called a religion so much I contemplative science a way of the mind is there are varying degrees of new and old I don't think just because something is newer or older makes it better or worse that's important people can get really hung up on that and trying to find the newest or the oldest the most sacred and ancient thing that's not what figuring out whether a spiritual chord resonates with you do you know what I mean like that's not necessarily the barometer it can have some influence like you'd be like wow this this tradition is quite old and it has lasted the test of time but when you dig into a lot of this stuff the idea of time is immediately questioned in most of these things right because in Buddhism's case it's basically saying that like listen this shit is so a dream so illusory we know these things about this dream it's transient you know if you cling to things you're going to suffer if you try to avoid things you're going to suffer and it's not saying this is like it's on Nietzschean Hell I mean this is up for debate depending on how you want to interpret Buddhism what I mean by Nietzschean Hell is like an infinite an infinite hell loop that you just can't escape from the Buddhists would describe that as the wheel of suffering the wheel of illusion right Maya and Samsara in this case right that's the Hindu and Buddhist you know ideas of what this world is and that can sound terrifying if you're like holy shit or it can be liberating and that's kind of the way Buddhism looks at it and it is done especially Tibetan Buddhism through very specific like essentially visualizations mixed with meditations on so focusing on aspects of mind and aspects of reality and there's a lot of lists and there's a lot of qualities that are outlined so if you are a logical minded person you I wonder how many Virgo's like Buddhism that would be interesting to know but basically you there's a lot of like breakdown of how the mind works and in Tibetan Buddhism there's like a huge emphasis on like specific lineages because they do believe in reincarnation and it's in time and that reincarnation should is like prescribed or like witnessed and then you know a child can be anyway it's a thing it's a vibe I don't know how much I specifically believe in reincarnation but there's plenty of evidence if that's the type of person you are that this stuff isn't like there are an astonishing number of coincidences at times that would seem to prove some aspect of this being true also the secret kind of schools the more like you have to study through a lineage and a guru type of channels that's very important in Tibetan Buddhism. Guru as you will see with the story of melorepa is an important aspect of this tradition for a lot of modern spiritual seekers this will come back around by the way like 100 percent like within our lifetimes probably go and come coupled several times at least. Guru is out Guru is like hey don't tell me what to do bro I know this like I'll find my way with my own spiritual vibes like don't tell me what to do which is like I get it that's totally my vibe like most of the time like I don't want to be told what to do by some spiritual authority but there's also the part of being spiritual where you're like you know maybe it's not all me maybe it's not just like what I think of is me that is doing this so maybe I have some like you know gratitude and humility and grace and I can learn from other beings who make you know still be me but another aspect of me in consciousness and it's a cool experiment anyway there's some balance there and there's some like you know you use that at times where it feels appropriate but the guru aspect will come back around people and it is going on I mean there at any point in time there is guru worship going on it might not just be through a spiritual guru worship it could be celebrity culture worship but that type of pedestalizing and top-down hierarchical spiritual like pass down um is out of vogue I would say right now right with the majority of people not all people but a lot the zeitgeist right the the ever-throbbing subcon you know unconscious subconscious collective just like undulating the way people feel and think about things which you can be aligned with or not aligned with I'm I'm not going to this would be for a different thing but like I started revisiting reality transurfing from the beginning and the audiobook is crazy because there's all these like sounds and background effects and it makes it sound so ominous sometimes I'm like I don't want to sound this ominous this could just be a normal thing without the creepy music but it's you know it's interesting and the one on pendulums I think is the first aspect of reality transurfing if you go in order I didn't I want to teach the first but if you are doing pendulums it's like oh shit this is the thing it's like am I on a pendulum what the fuck if you get very kind of like weird Buddhism and a lot of eastern religions and just miss you'll see through the mystic of the month series assuming I keep this up for more than like you know three or four months which I think I will um you will see that this has like there are hallmarks of mystics that transcend particular schools of thought around spiritual concepts and spirituality or light for reality there's they cut there they there's a clear thread going through all of them is the way I would describe it it's how so a lot of these mystics would describe it too it's just becomes clear is that you're like oh this person from this place even though it's a totally different thing is kind of talking about the same thing like they're talking about and then that kind of can be like oh they're talking about the exact same thing the other parable that's important to keep in mind here comes from another one of my favorite saints who will definitely cover um Sri Ramakrishna right an Indian mystic is this elephant story which a lot of people hear as in like Indian or Hindu um tradition is that you know there's a bunch of guys they're arguing about this thing they can't figure out what it is and it's like there's an elephant there and we know it's an elephant but like this guy's like oh like I can feel the trunk like it's like a hose it's like a hose and another guy's like nah nah like I feel this thing it's like a tree because he's feeling the legs of the elephant and he's like no no there's this huge thing it's like a you know a bunch is like a pile of dirt and they're like no and like it's an elephant they're just doing and interacting with different aspects of the elephant right it's not the same it's not like they're wrong it's just they don't have the capacity to grasp the full thing and totality and all the perspectives or haven't just come across all of those different aspects of an elephant and they are just thinking this is the thing that it is so cutting through that in terms of mysticism I think is something that for me personally has always been kind of cool to witness and it speaks to our own personal interest too like you can be completely you know captured by the mind and vibes of a person and or people and have it make complete sense to you that's great that's a that's a tool we have at our disposal you should not throw that away when you encounter those things and again doesn't even have to be just spiritual concepts like mysticism can be a musician it can be a poet it can be you know what I mean it doesn't have to necessarily always even express lyrical content Hasrat Inayat Khan a great mystic was a sound they wrote the mysticism of sound in music sound in music was is a form of mysticism too so any creative outlet you can find that can be expressed is a form of mysticism becoming a natural mystic right Bob Marley so like there's there's a lot of aspects of mysticism that cut through everything that's what's cool all right let's get some miller wrap up so my goal here by the way is to not pause and have this be an uninterrupted stream of thought consciousness recap crap capitalization Jesus re-craptilization that's probably the most accurate term for this but re-encapsulation of millarepa's story life and aspects of it that are worth kind of looking at it's impossible by the way I think to totally cover his entire life like there's you have to pick and choose like the parts A) that I can remember and B) that you know will fit into I'm hoping this would be about an hour or so fit into a kind of distillation of who millarepa is but I do encourage you the song young haruka life and story of millarepa is worth it it's not even that long it's like nine hours and it covers a ton of stuff and it is a great primer there's also the hundred thousand songs and firsts of millarepa which is a more kind of like it's a bunch of like it's his life and like aspects of his life where he goes to different places because you'll hear in this kind of retelling that he goes and does a bunch of shit and in the biography of him it's like he went and did a bunch of shit and maybe there's like one or two things that happens at some of those places but obviously you know there's a bunch of stuff he was doing in between and so the hundred thousand verses is something you can really like go and see the specific examples of him like dispelling demons from a certain place and meeting with the town and talking to his boys and you know like there's a whole vibe of that also I'll point out and you realize it pretty quickly there is not this schism between like relationships like having wives and partners there's no schism in terms of how society was working into that you know again this is four fifteen hundred this would have been written fourteen hundred this would have been written the biography of him but people were living as man and woman so these were lay people in many ways when these stories begin now millarepa is a specific example but even he when he goes and studies with marpa after a crazy series of events marpa's got a wife and the wife is a key figure in millarepa's evolution so it's important also again here i keep saying it's important like it is but they're it's looking at the feminine divine through like a spiritual lens i think you want to kind of see where that fits in into each area and i've found that some of the most accepting and loving um mystics who really seem to be like honor both of those aspects of the divine so you will hear aspects of decanies which are feminine goddesses here you'll certainly see marpa's wife helping tremendously uh in millarepa's kind of like ascension to one who understands the dharma and the way in a way that you know bestowed him all these seemingly magical qualities which isn't the goal and he's very clear to point that out um especially towards the end of his life and his ultimate death from the physical plane but are just like byproducts of kind of seeing through aspects of reality again that can be interpreted a lot of different ways but i do think you know living a content and happy and simple in millarepa's case life is great but just a life that with awareness of the way things are gives you a certain appreciation for just things that in your life which can have a positive effect regardless of the experience and circumstance you find in yourself in which in millarepa's case was often like the throes of utter despair and if there's a there's not other ways to say it and there's a lot of like depictions of him and his family like openly weeping and being like this sucks like our lives are very bad this is not good i should give up and gives up a few times super important all right so let's get to millarepa like i said born i think it was a 1052 i'll actually look this up because i want to get the alleged age yeah 1052 born in Tibet died 1135 in Tibet so the lineage of like gurus or wisdom like buddhas and just like a lot of that in Tibet not a lot of it traces back to Indian mystics who traveled to Tibet but up until millarepa there was not you know yeah because marpa had gone there if i'm not mistaken was marpa if i'm not mistaken was born in Tibet but i'm going to look this up because millarepa as far as i know was the first yeah he transmitted a lot of the Vajrayana teachings from India but millarepa was essentially the only one who stayed in Tibet and learned mysticism like in the Dharma tradition of you know Vajrayana Tibetan Buddhism solely in Tibet so he holds a special place in that lineage of teachers his teacher marpa who we will get to learn this from you know Naropa and Nagar's unit like it goes back these are relatively traceable um histories as well we're not like you i'm saying the year like 1052 he was born right that's i know it's crazy but like 1100 years ago not even yet is is long it's not that long thousand years ago less than a thousand years ago i know that sounds like in fat like holy shoot a thousand years like not that many generations when the biography was written was like 600 years ago right so it's not we're not talking about immense amounts of time which i think is what makes Tibetan Buddhism like really interesting for a lot of people or people are drawn to it because it's like you know there's this is a pretty resonant in-time thing and you know you can actually go back like we can look back in history books and be like oh this happened now Mandela effect with standing which will you know he can look into the past alteration of time that's a whole other aspect of it but just let's say in historical time not that long ago we're not even talking about 2000 3000 4000 5000 years ago which again isn't even that much time anyway millarepa is born he's born into a pretty good family um his dad owns land they own like yaks they have they just got it like kind of popping um he has a sister and his mom and they're just like they're their lives are not that bad but one day the dad gets sick and he's like i'm gonna die like i'm pretty sure this is it and i want to make it known that you know you you guys get my stuff and my land like it's it's for you guys my family um you know i'm gonna leave everyone something but this is like i want you guys to be taken care of but it happened very quickly and it wasn't necessarily done in the most proper of ways so the dad dies and they're like oh man this that's that's sad that was a very quick thing that happened um and then very quickly millarepa's aunt and uncle right go in the brothers sister um and i believe her brother if i'm not mistaken i could be well on that don't quote me on that but they take over at the situation and their kind of dicks is the best way to put it they essentially start going and uh taking all of the the stuff from the millarepa's family and they're like oh shit like this is bad like this they seem like they're kind of like being dicks about this but they take it to the maximum extreme and essentially just like make the millarepa his sister and the mom slaves and they're like yeah this is the best thing like this is who they want like this is what your your husband he didn't plan it right but now we're just gonna like basically slave you out like hardcore like giving them like very little to eat making them work the maximum amount um it's not the best situation and it lasts a pretty long time up until the time that millarepa yeah he's like 15 or so so he's basically been like slaved most of his like life right he really like did not have a a good go of things and this point he's not known as millarepa he is just kind of this dude who lives in this unfortunate situation no one can really help them right there there's no real well she tries to get help the mom through like various maneuvers of like going to other relatives and just being like hey like you know how to take some have some compassion like you know what he wanted and it's just like it doesn't work and so it's kind of this hopeless situation so at 15 the mom says to millarepa she's like hey uh you gotta go study black magic because we don't have a way out of this and if you don't study black magic this shit is just going to be like unbearable and like how and she's like basically he's like no i'm not he wasn't sure about it but he's like i'll go and do that we'll get to the extreme she goes afterwards um so he goes off and it's not easy to study black magic but the first thing he says to his first teacher he's like i will offer you my mind and body like you have that that's all i don't have a lot but i can offer you that you know we gathered together what we could to make an offering which was traditional to go and study with someone he's like but i offer you my mind and body fast forward you know dude is impressed by that you know sees that he's really like down down for the cause and is like teaching him black magic mainly how to cast like hail storms and like other various like possessive and like like illusory like making ghosts or scorpions and shit like regular black magic shit you know like i'm gonna cast a spell on you balloon so he learns this he comes back at one point and his mom is like you know what the fuck like you know you're learning black magic but nothing has happened if anything it's got worse like you know i'm on the slave your sister's a slave you know what are you doing we gathered what we have so you could learn black magic and he's like yeah like i'm learning it but you know there's still like more stuff i should learn and she's like listen if you don't do something about this situation basically if you don't like fuck with the aunt and the uncle i'm gonna kill myself and then i was like holy shit don't do that like okay i'm gonna cast these hail storms i'm gonna fuck with the land and during this wedding procession for the uncle's son their son um that couple's son uh he does some like illusory thing when like the horses like with like scorpions and they run into the bottom of this house and basically it kills like 30 for 35 40 people it's a lot of people right it kills a lot of people and it's a huge tragedy and the mom wasn't like chill about it she was like oh shit look what happened wonder what happened there would be a shame if someone uh you know had cast black magic on your thing and you're just reaping what you saw because you people are dicks and people like jeez like even if she's right that's like it's kind of fucked up like you gotta like rain it in a little bit it is a tragedy so millerappa is starting to feel kind of bad about all of this stuff and i'm skipping over a fair amount but he's basically like you know i don't think that this is a good thing that i have done i've killed people i've learned how to do all of this like black magic stuff and you know he was even at times asked by do to do black magic on like people's fields like somewhat some town's person came to his initial teacher and was like hey um you know this person's doing this can you please cast a hail storm on them and he's like yeah like now i'll do it and just like it's weird it was a little weird basically he's like i don't think that this is great like it doesn't seem like anyone is really better off they're still in the same the aunt and uncle also didn't die they were basically the part of the spell was to keep them alive so they had to witness like all the fall of their house and the destruction that has come with it just like these terrible things so they're fucked too it's just like more misery on top of misery the the mom was like you know gloating for a little bit but it didn't substantially really change her situation she's still kind of like in this beggar's mentality and things aren't working out the sister at this point is like we find out later it's like kind of gone off and like doing what she can do to like you know survive and millarepa essentially starts realizing like maybe i need to go and find some other way like this this feels like something that i've done isn't right and i need to let go and find something else millarepa pretty cool dude i hope you enjoyed that preview of this one this once this month's mystic of the month millarepa we will be doing another one i'll announce who the next mystic is in a week ten days something like that uh because i will pick one and start researching i have ideas of who it will be and initially mystics i'm choosing i'm like abundantly familiar with just because i i've reached i like mystics it's a cool thing to discover but then you know if people have suggestions or i haven't heard of people that would be amazing to hear from them so if you're into this type of stuff and you like hearing about these types of people um you know we're going to be doing this for the foreseeable future and that's over on the patreon for the full versions of that but you could also just like you know live off the scraps of the previews too if it's um there's it's cool i also i will say this so if you want to wait me out on this one this is also a possibility i may turn this into a separate podcast right if i build up like a season's worth of these you know 12 13 episodes of mystic of the month i may just turn that into a podcast that you could subscribe to so it's a little easier to digest that but otherwise until further notice it is on the patreon you guys are the best i will see you the next time from turkey i hope everyone has a wonderful spring and beginning of summer it's going to be pretty cool kind of like the calm and fun before the storm fall is going to be gnarly not in a bad way but like a very different place for for many obvious and maybe secret reasons okay love you guys bye bye ready to buy a car a home or just want to take control of your money your phico score matters and 90 of top lenders use it to make decisions check your phico score for free today without hurting your credit score visit 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