Born in the village of Kya, Ngatsa in Tibet to a prosperous family he was named Mila Thöpaga, which means "Mila who is a joy to hear. But when his father died Milarepa's uncle and aunt took all the family's wealth. At his mother's request Milarepa left home and studied sorcery. When he heard his Aunt and Uncle were having a party to celebrate the coming of age of their son, he took his revenge by causing the house they were in to collapse, killing 35 people. The villagers were angry and set off to look for Milarepa, but his mother got word to him, and he sent a hailstorm to destroy their crops. Milarepa knowing that his revenge was wrong set out to find a teacher and was led to Marpa the translator. Marpa proved a hard task master, and before he would teach him had Milarepa build and then ...

, and "mine" that is ignorance. By discriminating, you will realize that what you call "I" is really nothing but Atman [the Self].

ife appears as an echo (resonance) on an oscillation out of the universe. Under meditative or other conditions which focus inwards this oscillation can be experienced by each of us as light, harmonic in itself, as energy. We can imagine it to be an organizing force, which 'rains' on earth since ages. This oscillation is formed (modulated) by the Platonic year, by the planets and the moon cycle among others. Some time or other matter (mater i.e.) starts to answer lively and approvingly to the oscillation. As it is told in the Bible: At the beginning there was the word - the life stimulating oscillation from universe - and as an answer to this mental, immaterial information a coherent "order" develops on earth, which regulates everything from day and night rhythm over tides of the seas up to wind and weather.

Life develops. First in simplest structures, but then developing itself to highly-complex connections, which are characterised by the fact that they all are interconnected by mutual relations and affect themselves by feeding back to the smallest member and to the origin of all life. They are not subject to any spatial or temporal restrictions. The effect is direct and simultaneous. The basic substance of life contains in its regularity all information from beginning to today and by an inherent obligation to harmony it also specifies value and quality of future life. Coincidence and genetic accident as exclusive engines of evolution are not sufficient. The oscillation model of life with its striving for agreement and harmony draws evolution as an organizing development with a tendency towards multiplication of differences as a goal of a revealing (manifestation) of life, which gets ever more complex and diverse. Finally this notion contains the possibility of implementation of what by religions is traditionally understood to be God.