Milarepa's Kungfu

Viac o knihe

This text presents the first stanza of Milarepa’s teachings, originally sung to his disciple Rechungpa. These instructions reflect Milarepa’s profound realizations achieved through years of dedicated practice. Translator Karl Brunnhölzl describes this understanding as “kungfu,” emphasizing the skillful effort and time invested in realizing the nature of the mind to benefit all beings. The work is notable for its depth and clarity, offering five verses that provide essential guidance for navigating the stages of practice. Each stage is defined as follows: - **View**: The foundational ground for proper meditation, conduct, and fruition of mahāmudrā. - **Meditation**: The process of training and becoming familiar with that view. - **Conduct**: The natural expression that arises from this familiarity in meditation. - **Fruition**: The ultimate result of fully assimilating and realizing the view, which is inherently the same as the view itself. Milarepa dedicates a verse to each stage, while Brunnhölzl devotes a chapter to each verse, integrating insights from other Milarepa songs and commentary by Khenpo Tsultrim Gyatso. This structure allows readers to deeply engage with Milarepa’s extraordinary teachings.