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Oh There's a well-known Tibetan master from the 11th century, Melaripa, and he was known for

composing all these wonderful stories and songs.

And I'd like to share with you the most famous of them, the one that I've heard the most.

In this he describes himself as leaving his cave to gather firewood.

And when he comes back, he finds that the cave is filled with demons.

I mean, they've totally taken over the joint.

And so they're everywhere and his first thought is, okay, I've got to get rid of these guys.

So he lunges at them and he tries to push them away and fight them and so on, tries to

force them.

They're totally unfazed.

In fact, the more he tries to get rid of them, the more they kind of settle back

and, you know, really get comfortable. So he realizes he's failed miserably at fighting the demons.

So his next approach is he's going to teach them the Dharma. Now, by that means, he's going to have,

you know, he's going to kind

of try to be rational and explain to them why they can go bye-bye, you know, basically. So

that's what he does. And he talks about existence and non-existence and impermanence

and compassion and kindness.

And they just stared at him with these big bulging eyes kind of glazed over.

That didn't work.

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