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they were arguing about. He listened to them for a while
and then asked them, "Do you think that rock is
sunyata?" He pointed out a massive boulder.
"No, no," they said, "a rock is a very hard thing."
Then Milarepa, by the power of his practice, made his
body penetrate that stone. He went through it and came
out the other side as though that rock were a pool of
water. After that, Milarepa asked the scholars, "What
about the sky, is that sunyata?"
"Yes, certainly, the sky is empty," they replied. But
Milarepa flew upwards, and sat down in padmasana in
the sky as though upon the hardest rock.
"You see," he said, "it is a good seat for me."
One of the two scholars was converted to Milarepa's
teachings by this personal instruction, but the other
scorned him, saying that he was only a magic-monger
and not a teacher of reasonable truth. Milarepa said to
the latter, "You are quite right; you should keep to your
doctrine and practice it. Later, when you have some
realization, come to see me again."
As this great yogi was accomplished in both sunyata
meditation and the power to renounce, we honor him.
To the mother of all the Buddhas, Prajnaparamita, we
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