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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. In just five verses, Milarepa gives incisive instructions for progressing and for avoiding pitfalls in the stages of practice.

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.”