Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction ix
Pronunciation of Sanskrit and Tibetan xv
Part 1 Awakening the Heart
1 A Glimpse of Wakefulness 3
2 Love, Vision, and Warriorship 12
3 Doubt and Delight 20
Part 2 Buddha Nature
4 Enlightened Genes 31
5 Basic Goodness 40
Part 3 Preparing the Ground
6 Cultivating Wholesomeness 51
7 Expanding Your Practice 54
8 Cutting Ego Fixation 60
9 Awakening Your Enlightened Genes 69
10 The Spiritual Friend 78
Part 4 Making a Commitment
11 Indestructible Wakefulness 89
12 Planting the Moon of Bodhi in Your Heart 97
13 Cultivating a Mahayana Mentality 99
14 The Seven Mahayana Exercises 104
15 Taking the Bodhisattva Vow 107
16 Becoming a Bodhisattva 116
17 Joining Profundity and Vastness 121
Part 5 Emptiness and Compassion
18 Emptiness 129
19 Discovering a World beyond Ego 134
20 Emptiness and the Middle Way 142
21 Realizing the Emptiness of Ordinary Reality 149
22 Experiencing Reality in Its Fullest Sense 159
23 Contemplating Emptiness 171
24 Awakening Unfabricated Perception 180
Part 6 Bodhisattva Activity
25 Paramitas: Techniques of Nongrasping 193
26 Applying Emptiness to Everyday Life 203
27 Generosity 206
28 Discipline 214
29 Patience 229
30 Exertion 238
31 Meditation 249
32 Prajna 256
Part 7 Mind Training and Slogan Practice
33 Introduction to Mind Training 273
34 Undermining Aggression 282
35 Point One: The Preliminaries, Which Are a Basis for Dharma Practice 289
36 Point Two: Resting in Ultimate Bodhichitta 291
37 Point Two: Training in Relative Bodhichitta 302
38 Point Three: Transformation of Bad Circumstances into the Path of Enlightenment 317
39 Point Four: Showing the Utilization of Practice in One's Whole Life 338
40 Point Five: Evaluation of Mind Training 347
41 Point Six: Disciplines of Mind Training 357
42 Point Seven: Guidelines of Mind Training 368
43 Additional Mind-Training Instructions 378
Part 8 The Bodhisattva's Journey
44 The Paths and Bhumis 383
45 Very Joyful: The First Bhumi 389
46 The Second through Tenth Bhumis 397
47 Complete Radiance: The Eleventh Bhumi 420
Appendix 1 Never Forget the Hinayana 433
Appendix 2 The Practice of Oryoki 435
Appendix 3 The Heart Sutra 437
Appendix 4 Prajna Dialogues 439
Appendix 5 Forty-Six Ways in Which a Bodhisattva Fails 443
Appendix 6 The Root Text of the Seven Points of Mind Training 447
Appendix 7 Outline of Teachings 451
Glossary 469
Sources 483
Resources 493
About the Author 495
Credits 501
Index 503