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Tilopa was born in either Chativavo , Bengal or Jagora, Bengal in India. He was a tantric practitioner and mahasiddha. He practiced Anuttarayoga Tantra, a set of spiritual practices intended to accelerate the process of attaining Buddhahood. Naropa is considered his main student. At Pashupatinath temple premise, greatest Hindu shrine of Nepal, there are two caves where Tilopa attained Siddhi and initiated his disciple Naropa. Wikipedia  

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Tilopa Quotes

“Without mind, without meditation, without analysis, without practice, without the will, let it all be so.”

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Six Precepts of Tilopa, quoted in A.S. Kline's Like Water or Clouds - The T’ang Dynasty and the Tao (1947)

“No thought, no reflection, no analysis, No cultivation, no intention; Let it settle itself.”

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"Six Precepts" of Tilopa, quoted in Powell Zen and Reality (1975), p. 72

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