Marpa Lotsawa Quotes on Knowledge
Marpa Lotsawa, called Chokyi Lodro, was an eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist translator and tantric master, the principal pupil of the Indian Mahasiddha Naropa, and the founder of the Tibetan Kagyu lineage of Mahamudra teachings. This page collects quotes attributed to Marpa Lotsawa on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Marpa Lotsawa:
“I traveled to India three times for the Dharma; what I brought back was less than what I learned in the going.”
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Attributed to Marpa Lotsawa:
“Translation is not the carrying of words across; it is the carrying of mind across.”
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Attributed to Marpa Lotsawa:
“Tilopa is in Naropa; Naropa is in me; in due time, I shall be in my pupils.”
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Attributed to Marpa Lotsawa:
“What is given by a true teacher cannot be measured by the time it took to give it.”
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“Middle way" is defined [by professors of Nirakara] in terms of a self-awareness that is not nil; it appears as blue, etc. objects, but characteristics do not arise in it.”
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“To professors of Mayopamadvaya, "freedom from the four extremes" is [to know that] the characteristics are false, and [in reality] clear light. The following system had evidence for its beliefs.”
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“To know the emptiness of objects is to know emptiness free of appearance and free of coverings. That is the Middle Way from which the "subsequent" or conventional has been purged.”
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“The Madhyamasatka of Metri ,The Tibetan and Himalayan Library, Adyar. Library Bulletin vol. 25, pp. 539-49. (1961)”
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