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“I talked to Sonam Kazi about the “child mind,” which is recovered after experience. Innocence – to experience – to innocence. Milarepa, angry, guilty of revenge, murder and black arts, was purified by his master Marpa, the translator, who several times made him build a house many stones high and then tear it down again. After which he was “no longer the slave of his own psyche but its lord.” So too, a Desert Father came to freedom by weaving baskets and then, at the end of each year, burning all the baskets he had woven.”
– from The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, pg. 84