Contents: Vivid Awareness: The Mind Instructions of Khenpo Gangshar
	Foreword	vii
	Translator's Introduction	ix
	Preface	xiii
	PART ONE - Helpful Advice for Good Times and Bad
1.	Prophecies of Hidden Lands	3
2.	Recognizing Our Good Fortune	19
3.	The General Preliminaries	30
	PART TWO - The Special Preliminaries: The Analytic Meditation of a Pandita
4.	The Foundation: Karma, Cause, and Result	45
5.	The Importance of Mind	62
6.	Appearances and Mind	78
7.	Looking at the Mind	94
8.	A Summary of the Analytic Meditation of a Pandita	107
	PART THREE - The Resting Meditation of a Kusulu
9.	Devotion and Stability	113
10.	Getting Right Down to Meditation	121
11.	The Benefits of the Kusulu's Meditation	133
12.	Distinguishing Mind and Awareness	154
	PART FOUR - Following Through in Our Lives
13.	Taking the Situations of Our Lives as the Path	169
14.	Taking Joy and Sorrow as the Path	175
15.	Taking Pain and Illness as the Path	179
16.	Taking Afflictions and Emotions as the Path	182
17.	Taking the Bardo as the Path	199
18.	Closing Words	210
	Appendix: The Texts of Khenpo Gangshar	215
	The Concise Mind Instructions Called Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet	217
	Naturally Liberating Whatever You Meet: Instructions to Guide You on the Profound Path	221
	Bibliography	234
	Index	235