Tao Te Ching
Kirapālapa ཀི་ར་པཱ་ལ་པ།
(Kirapalapa, "The Repentant Conqueror")
8th century CE
Mahasiddha #73
A retelling of Ashoka’s story set in more recent times, Kilapa was a rich, powerful, and insatiable king obsessed with continually getting more wealth, power, and territory. When he personally confronts the horrors of war he completely changes and dedicates his life and kingdom to helping others, peace, education and poverty alleviation. His spiritual practice is distracted by the affairs of state until his guru gives him a visualization practice seeing his subjects as sacred beings and his kingdom as “the infinite emptiness of mind.” He then becomes a great siddha himself.
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Tang Dynasty 唐朝 (618 – 907 CE)Unlisted Sources
Quotes by Kirapālapa (3 quotes)
“As a cloud blocks the light of the sun, I was blocked from the light of reality by my concepts of self and other.”
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“At the moment of my realization, my mind basked in the radiance of its own emptiness. Even Buddha became a meaningless label.”
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“Transform the lust for power and riches into the desire to relate to all beings, destroy every demon that enters your mind.”
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