The Copper-Colored Mountain Copper as if something within were

as if something within were thawing out

The practices of deity

or Bodhicitta

benefitting all sentient beings without any restriction of time or space

Milarepa gives incisive instructions for progressing and for avoiding pitfalls in the stages of practice:

The Copper-Colored Mountain Copper as if something within wereThe Copper Colored Mountain is the pure land of Padmasambhava, the Indian master who brought Buddhism to Tibet. One way in which Buddhist practitioners may be reborn in this pure land is by making aspiration prayers. This work includes a translation of one of the most famous of these aspiration prayers, composed by Jigme Lingpa, and the authors verse by verse analysis of it. Drawing on both traditional commentaries and contemporary scholarly texts,