I'm not a Tibetan Buddhist, but that won't stop me from ripping off one of their great stories. We get our material where we can find it.

One of the great stories from that tradition is of Miller Repa who began his life like the Buddha and a very wealthy family.

Miller Repa's father died when he was young and apparently Miller repa to maintain a sense of, to keep some power in the family or make sure he survived, picked up sorcery, black magic, this tradition in that region of the world called Bon Arts and so basically he learned how to

conjure all kinds of spells and magic so after a lot of escapades mill repa started to realize that and

started to realize that it wasn't really attaining any peace of mind.

Though it was allowing him to do all kinds of feats and stuff like that.

He really wasn't attaining any lasting sense of purpose in his life.

So he he renounced the sorcery and all that and found a teacher and became enlightened in his late 30s. and he took to

took to living the remainder of his life,

or at least quite a good deal of his life I should say he was a traveling

monks so he probably at times passed through cities but he lived a lot of his time in a cave up in the Himalayas.

It said that he ate so little that when his sister found him he had basically was skin and bones and

but he was considered to be a master of

the spiritual practice and yet when Milarepa was 45 years old and living in

the cave one day after collecting firewood, he returned to his cave and found that it was filled

with demons and the demons would leave.

And I'm Melerepa possibly could have gotten rid of the demons if he had reverted to his old ways of sorcery and black magic,

but he chose to not, and he tried every other way to reason with them to chase them out but they wouldn't leave.

And so finally, Milarepa said to the demons, I'm trying to remember the story in as much details I can, said to the

demons I'll stay in this side of the cave and you can stay in that side and you can be

and do whatever you want you have my permission.

And all but one of the demons, once he gave them permission

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