I saw the first part of this movie, on a private invitation, in Los Angeles, after His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s precious teachings. I was very happy to see it, and it’s very well done.

I read Milarepa’s life story when I was around six to seven years old. At that time, a very clear image came into my mind. I guess at that time my mind was not so polluted. So, this movie is a great awakening and liberation from the totally confused suffering world and life, and from total darkness and ignorance.

Even though Milarepa’s life story happened about 1,000 years ago, this movie shows such an incredible accomplishment of the spiritual path for the people in the 20th century today.

Milarepa is one who has completed the whole spiritual path, achieved total control of the body and mind. Many of us are under the control of obscuring disturbing attitudes and under the control of the suffering body. But Milarepa overcame all of these by having total control of the extreme subtle wind and mind by having undisturbed strong and stable guru devotion, totally free forever from any mistakes towards his guru Marpa.

Lack of guru devotion is the heaviest obstacle to fully developing one’s own potential, which is to achieve full enlightenment for the sake of numberless sentient beings.