Milarepa's Kungfu: Mahāmudrā in his songs of realization
Introduction -- 1. The Synopsis of View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition -- 2. The View Is Not a Theory but an Experience -- 3. Meditation: Awareness in Both Stillness and Movement -- 4. Conduct: Beyond Dos and Don'ts -- 5. Fruition: Nothing to Gain, Nothing to Lose -- Appendix -- Endnotes --...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Somerville
Wisdom Publications
[2021]
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mi-la-ras-pa 1040-1123
/ Religious poetry
/ Mahāmudrā
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| Further subjects: | B
Meditation
Buddhism
B Mahāmudrā (Tantric rite) B Mi-la-ras-pa (1040-1123) Teachings B Spiritual Life Buddhism |
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| Summary: | Introduction -- 1. The Synopsis of View, Meditation, Conduct, and Fruition -- 2. The View Is Not a Theory but an Experience -- 3. Meditation: Awareness in Both Stillness and Movement -- 4. Conduct: Beyond Dos and Don'ts -- 5. Fruition: Nothing to Gain, Nothing to Lose -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- About the author. "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. 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": "Gōng (功) means 'skillful work,' 'hard training,' or 'endeavor,' and fu (夫) 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 and remarkable clarity. 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 mahāmudrā 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, which is not different from the view Milarepa dedicates one verse to each stage, and Karl dedicates one chapter to each verse, weaving in wisdom from other Milarepa songs and from Karl's own considerable insight. The reader is thus able to fully immerse themselves in each point of Milarepa's extraordinary teaching"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 1614296618 |