Table of Contents

About This Book vii

Introduction: From Tibet to Tennessee 1

Part 1 Contemplative Meditation

1 Happiness Is in Your Hands 11

2 The Thinker's Guide to Enlightenment 19

Part 2 Preliminary Steps

3 Precious Human Birth 33

4 Visualization 41

5 Seven Ways to Accumulate Merit 47

6 Bodhichitta, the Awakened Heart 57

Part 3 The Four Seals of the Dharma

7 The Seal of Impermanence 71

8 The Seal of Multiplicity 79

9 The Seal of Suffering 109

10 The Seal of Emptiness 125

Part 4 Contemplating the Four Seals

11 Preparing for Practice 133

12 The Four Contemplations 141

Contemplation of Impermanence 143

Contemplation of Multiplicity 144

Contemplation of Suffering 150

Contemplation of Emptiness 152

Conclusion 157

Part 5 Readings

The Heart Sutra 163

The Wheel of Analytical Meditation 207

Glossary 217

Biographical Notes 225

Shakyamuni Buddha 225

Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche 227

Acknowledgments 229

About Pema Karpo Meditation Center 230