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A LETTER TO MARPA
Solid Marpa
Our father,
The message of the lineage:
You are the breadwinner.
Without your farm we would starve to death.
Fertilizing
Plowing
Sowing
Irrigating
Weeding
Harvesting;
Without your farm we are poverty-stricken.
Your stout body,
Sunburnt face;
Ordering Damema to serve beer for a break;
Evidence of the three journeys you made to India in you--
We sympathize with you for your son's death:
It was not the fault of the horse,
It was the seduction of the stirrup in which his foot was caught
As his head smashed into the boulders of conceptualization.
Yet you produced more sons:
Eagle-like Milarepa who dwells in the rocks,
Snow-lion-like Gampopa whose lair is in the Gampo hills,
Elephant-like Karmapas who majestically care for their young.
Tiger-like Chogyam roaming in foreign jungles.
As your lineage says, "The grandchildren are more accomplished than the
parents."
Your garuda egg hatches
As the contagious energy of Mahamudra conquers the world.
We are the descendants of lions and garudas.
6 June 1972
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