Just as the images on television are nothing more than light, so are our experiences merely the dance of awareness.
Often we form attachment to, or feel enslaved by, these experiences. But they are only reflections. As easily as television pictures vanish when the channel is changed, the power of out experiences fades if we penetrate to the heart of reality - the light of the natural mind within everyone.
You Are the Eyes of the World presents a method for discovering awareness everywhere, all the time. This book does not discuss how to turn ordinary life off, it does not describe how to create beautiful spiritual experiences; it shows how to live within the source of all life, the unified field where experience takes place.

You Are the Eyes of the World, Longchenpa, Translated by Kennard Lipman and Merrill Peterson,
Introduction by Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, Snow Lion Publications, 106 pages, $18.95

Chogyal Namkhai Norbu is a Dzogchen teacher who was born in Derge, Kham district (Eastern Tibet) on 8 December 1938. When he was two years old, Namkhai Norbu was recognized as the reincarnation of a great Dzogchen teacher, Adzom Drugpa Rinpoche. From an early age Namkhai Norbu undertook an accelerated course of study, attending monastic college, taking retreats, and studying with renowned teachers, including some of the most important Tibetan masters of his time. Under the tutelage of these teachers, he completed the training required by Buddhist tradition in both Sutra and Tantra. At the age of sixteen he met master Rigdzin Changchub Dorje, who became his principal Dzogchen teacher.In 1960 he came to Italy at the invitation of Professor Giuseppe Tucci, and served as Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1964 to 1992 at the Oriental Institute of the University of Naples. Namkhai Norbu is widely recognized as a leading authority on Tibetan civilization, par

Preface		xi
	Textual Introduction		1
	The kun byed rgyal po		1
	Sutra, Tantra, and Agama		2
	Longchenpa's Guide		7
	Introduction		11
	The Spiritual Quest		11
	Overview of the Text		13
	How to Read the Text		16
	The Jewel Ship		17
	Anthem		19
	Preface		19
	Introduction		20
	List of Subjects		23
I	The Spiritual Advisor		24
II	The Student		25
III	The Teaching		26
A	The Spiritual Heritage		27
B	The Main Subject Matter		29
	1.	Guruyoga	29
	The Visualization and Guruyoga		29
	2.	The Real Subject Matter	31
a	Becoming Certain through the Perspective		32
i	The Play of Experience		32
ii	Experience is Open-Dimensional		34
b	Accustoming Yourself to the Perspective		35
c	The Way of Life		40
i	The Intrinsic Freedom of the Passions		40
ii	The Way of Living which Masters Appearances		42
iii	Making Your Free Behavior the Path		44
d	The Result: Abandonment of Hope and Fear		47
	3.	How to Integrate Experiences after Meditation	50
C	Reserving the Teaching by Not Broadcasting It		53
	Epilogue		53
	Postscript		54
	Concluding Thoughts		54
	Colophon		55
	Commentary		57
	Self-knowledge		57
	Being True to Yourself		62
	Different Paths		65
	Renunciation and Transformation		66
	Intrinsic Freedom		69
	Appendices		79
A	The History and Structure of the kun byed rgyal po		79
B	Quotations from the Root Text		89
	Glossary		91
	Further Readings		95
	Index		99