Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 First One Tames the Mind with the Practice of Tranquility 23

2 Grasping the Mind That Has Not Been Grasped 33

3 Stabilizing the Mind after It Has Been Grasped 41

4 Bringing Progress to the Mind That Has Been Stabilized 51

5 The Practice of Insight, Which Eradicates the Kleshas 59

6 More on the First Insight Technique, Looking at the Mind within Stillness 67

7 Looking Carefully at the Experience of Not Finding Anything 73

8 Within Stillness, Looking, Scrutinizing, Identifying Awareness/Emptiness 85

9 Looking at the Mind within the Occurrence of Thought 91

10 Looking at the Mind within Appearances 99

11 The Actual Meditation on the Relationship between Appearances and Mind 109

12 Pointing Out That Emptiness Is Spontaneous Presence 119

13 Pointing Out That Spontaneous Presence Is Self-Liberation 125

14 Bringing Gradual Improvement to the Practice 133

Notes 139