Milarepa Lessons from the life and songs of Tibet's great yogi
Book - 2017
"Renowned meditation master Chogyam Trungpa retells the stories and realization songs of Tibet's best-known and most-beloved religious figure--and reveals how they relate to our everyday lives. Milarepa (1040-1123) is Tibet's much-beloved Buddhist poet and teacher. His realization songs are widely revered and studied, and he is remembered for having achieved enlightenment in a single lifetime. Chogyam Trungpa presents this great historical figure as an example of someone who was able to overcome immense difficulties and obstacles through his discipline, dedication, and practice. And further, the challenges Milarepa faced, though of a different time and place, hold insights for practitioners today. Trungpa retells colorful sto...ries of Milarepa's life, highlighting his struggles, his awakening, and his teachings. Through these stories Trungpa reveals the history, traditions, and principles that formed the background for Milarepa's journey, including teachings from the mahamudra tradition from which the realization songs arose. Trungpa also illuminates the meaning of many of Milarepa's remarkable songs, always coming back to relevance of Milarepa's life to practitioners today"--
- Subjects
- Published
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Boulder :
Shambhala
2017.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xviii, 286 pages ; 23 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9781611802092
- Editors Introduction
- Part 1. Milarepa and the Mahamudra Tradition
- 1. The Mahamudra Lineage
- 2. The Student-Teacher Relationship
- 3. The Importance of Devotion
- 4. One-Upmanship
- 5. Disillusionment, Renunciation, and the Search for a Teacher
- 6. Milarepa's Genuineness and Honesty
- 7. Encountering Marpa
- 8. Marpa's Construction Projects
- 9. Destroying Materialism
- 10. Straightforward Discipline
- 11. Exposing Ego's Dirty Trick
- 12. Spiritual Romanticism
- 13. Loneliness, Exertion, and the Delight in Practice
- 14. Breakthrough
- 15. Fear, Mockery, and the Dawning of Mahamudra
- 16. Four Yogas of Mahamudra: One-Pointedness and Simplicity
- 17. Four Yogas of Mahamudra: One Taste and Nonmeditation
- 18. Milarepa's Love and Compassion
- 19. Milarepa's Buddha Activity
- Part 2. Songs and Commentaries
- 20. Conversations in Verse
- 21. Milarepa's Challenge from a Wise Demoness
- 22. The Song of Realization
- 23. A Woman's Role in the Dharma
- 24. The Challenge from the Logicians
- 25. The Realization of Megom Repa
- 26. Sale Ö and Her Understanding
- 27. The Story of the Yak Horn
- 28. Rethungpa's Repentance
- 29. The Holy Gampopa
- 30. The Conversion of the Scholar Lotön
- 31. The Beer Drinking Song
- 32. Farewell to Holy Gampopa
- Acknowledgments
- Sources
- Index