Milarepa's Kungfu
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Milarepa's Kungfu

Mahamudra in His Songs of Realization

  1. 128 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Milarepa's Kungfu

Mahamudra in His Songs of Realization

About this book

Lion's Roar says, " This book is a treasure of subtle revelation." The view is the wisdom of being empty
Meditation is luminosity without fixation
Conduct is a continual flow free of attachment
Fruition is nakedness bare of any stain This is the first stanza of Milarepa's Ultimate View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition: pith instructions originally sang to the great yogi Rechungpa, Milarepa's disciple. These teachings are Milarepa's direct offering to his disciple of his own profound realization, gained after many years of dedicated practice. Karl Brunnhölzl, acclaimed translator and senior teacher at the Nalandabodhi community of Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, calls this hard-earned understanding "kungfu" " Gong means 'skillful work, ' 'hard training, ' or 'endeavor, ' and fu means 'time spent...' The term refers to Milarepa's diligent and skillful training in the techniques to realize the nature of his mind and benefit countless sentient beings." Ultimate View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition is a work of remarkable depth andclarity. In just five verses, Milarepa gives incisive instructions for progressing and for avoiding pitfalls in the stages of practice: - View: the basis or ground from which the proper meditation, conduct, and fruition of mahamudra can arise - Meditation: the training in or the familiarization with that view - Conduct: the natural outflow of having familiarized with the view in meditation - Fruition: the final outcome of having fully assimilated and realized the view, whose essence is not different from it

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Mind-Bending Song: Foreword by Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. The Synopsis of View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition
  8. 2. The View Is Not a Theory but an Experience
  9. 3. Meditation: Awareness in Both Stillness and Movement
  10. 4. Conduct: Beyond Dos and Don’ts
  11. 5. Fruition: Nothing to Gain, Nothing to Lose
  12. Appendix: Milarepa’s Ultimate View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. About the Author
  16. Copyright