[Buddha-l] Milarepa's disciple

[Robert Leverant]

The disciple that Milarepa showed his buttox to was Rechungpa. He did not
moon him. The story goes that Rechungpa wanted and asked Milarepa for a
special teaching. This was Milarepa's last visit with him and his last
teaching.He told Rechungpa that he never gave this teaching to anyone before
and Rechungpa was all puffed up and curious and waited. After a few days,
Milarepa said he had to leave and Rechungpa asked again, and Milarepa said
he hadn't forgotten. They walked out on the plateau and as he was going to
to take the path down the steep mountain, Milarepa said he would give the
teaching. He pulled up his cotton shirt that clothed him and showed
Rechungpa his buttox which was calloused like hard rock. Milarepa said words
to the effect, "that if you want to achieve enlightenment you have to
meditate like I did." Then he purportedly had Rechungpa feel his buttox, and
said, "To do this, your buttox from meditation will need to become as hard
as mine." And then Milarepa went down the mountain. Rechungpa watched until
he could no longer see Milarepa. Rechungpa was one of the close in disciples
along with Gampopa.
For the Kagyu lineage, see: http://www.jutier.net/contenu/kagyu.htm