Bartesate

Percorso ad anello da Bartesate (Galbiate) passando per:
- Consonno
- Monte Crocione (9.0 km)
- Monte di Brianza (9.7 km)





THE HUNDRED THOUSAND SONGS OF MILAREPA
With your guidance and protection
We will surely cross the road.
Pray show us the way to Dharmakaya
Through recognizing the Death Light.19
Pray show us the way to Samboghagakaya
Through recognizing Bardo's phantom forms.
Pray show us the way to Nirmal)akaya,
Thus letting us incarnate at our will!
Beyond the fearful realm of the Three Bardos20
Lies the Pure Land of No-rcgression.21
Much have we heard of it
But we have never been there.
Oh compassionate Guru, savior merciful,
Pray guide us to it now!
Pray answer the cry for help
From those in despair and grief.
Pray now reveal to them
The Fourfold Body of Buddhahood!
Then they offered the Jctsun a silver mirror Mal)c;lala decorated with a
golden lotus and various gems. The Jetsun said, "Since you have peti-
tioned me so earnestly, I shall now bless you in the tradition of my
Lineage. Please prepare a sacramental feast for the occasion."
That evening the five Oakinis offered a Manc;lala filled with sixty dif-
ferent kinds of food to the Jetsun. He blessed and initiated them into
'the order of the Inborn Mother22 of the Whispered Lineage, and then
sang a song in which he gave them the instruction for identifying the
perilous Bardo with the Trikaya, by means of which one delivers him-
self [forever from Saq~sara] to the Pure Land of Great Bliss:
In the land of India,
In the center of this earth,
There is a great monastery, Bidrama23 called.
A university is found therein
Whence springs the fountain of all learning.
There the professor of the Northern School
Is the peerless Pal)c;lita, lion of men,
A mighty champion who has
Defeated every heretic.
Is he not the great Naropa,
Master of the four Tantras,
Master of both the mundane and the ultimate
Accomplishment?
The foremost son of this great PaQ<;lita
Is my Father Guru, the Translator Marpa,
A man with strong will and perseverance,
A man of great fame, thunder-like.
He said, "At the time of defilement,
When declines the Buddha's teaching,
Lives will be short and merits poor.
Evils and hindrances, in myriad forms,
Will o'ershadow all the world;
Leisure and long life will become most rare;
Knowledge will [expand] to a point
Too stupendous to comprehend;
Proofs and conclusions will be hard to reach.
To understand the truth of Tantra will be
most difficult.
Therefore, my son, try nothing else,
But work hard at the practice!"
Following this injunction,
I abjure indolence, and meditate
With perseverance in my hermitage.
Thus I have gained a few Experiences.
Destined fair ladies, now listen with attention!
Along the Path of the Three Existences24
There is no end of wandering in SaiTlsara!
Know then that the Six Dharmas of Bardo
Are the root of all.
[The following parables,
Will explain the teaching of Bardo.]
Three traveling [merchants], on a long journey,
When in a perilous place sent out for help.
When they saw their guides return with
native welcomers
They were o'erwhelmed with joy.
Without reliable guides they would have lost
Their way and fallen into the hands of enemie