With the book Revelations of Mind we begin an inquiry into the mystery of mind and how its operations affect our well-being. When we know more about how mind works, we can understand what runs our life.

The opportunity to learn from experience is among the most precious benefits life offers. But our experience is more than the thoughts, emotions and events that stand out in memory; it encompasses the most subtle interactions of senses, brains, mind and consciousness. In Revelations of Mind the author helps us explore the human mind from the perspective of inner experience.

Mind is much more complex than we can imagine, and the mental patterns and structures that shape our lives and our choices are so basic we may not even notice them. There are patterns of mind. There are patterns of language. There are patterns of concerns and emotions. Are we ready to ask how these patterns get set up and how they operate?

In releasing it for publication, the author has said, "Our mind is the creator of all we experience, yet we suffer for we do not understand the creator or the creation.But if we can closely contact the processes by which mind generates experience, we can give ease to our mind and appreciate the true nature of our embodiment. We can make our mind our best friend and our most reliable companion."
Revelations of Mind, Tarthang Tulku, Dharma Publishing, Paperback, 420 pages, 2013, $35.00

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche is a traditionally trained teacher and author in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Buddhism and Head Lama of the Tibetan Nyingmapa Meditation Center. Rinpoche was born in 1935 in eastern Tibet, where he studied with many of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century. After leaving Tibet, Tarthang Tulku taught from 1962 to 1968 at Sanskrit University in Varanasi, India, where he also established one of the first printing presses to print sacred Tibetan texts.

The first lama of the Nyingma lineage to establish residence in the United States, Rinpoche established a mandala of organizations to actualize his long-range vision of preserving the ancient teachings of the Buddha and transmitting them to the modern world.

Tarthang Tulku Rinpoche's activities are far-reaching in scope and application; the intensity and focus necessary to sustain them are difficult to describe. But mindful of the stresses of modern Western lifestyles, from time to time he expresses his thoughts in books that can be translated and widely shared.

CONTENTS: Revelations of Mind
	Introduction	xv
	How to Read this Book	xxv
SECTION ONE: A FRESH LOOK AT MIND		1
1	The Central Importance of Mind	2
2	Mind and T	8
3	The Business of Mind	13
4	Mind and Language	16
5	Rules for Reality	23
6	Customer Mind	30
7	Mind on Automatic	36
8	Identifier Mind	42
9	The Victimizing Mind	48
10	Dependence on Identity	56
11	Questioning the Foundation
SECTION TWO: WORKING WITH THE MIND		69
12	Mirrors of Mind	70
13	Watching the Mind	73
14	Silence and Awareness	79
15	The Problem with Ownership	86
16	Getting What We Look For	90
17	Cutting Through Mind-Business	95
18	Obeying the Parameter	99
19	Closing Access to Awareness	102
20	Closed Circuitry of Mind	106
21	Understanding the Inner Story	109
22	Seeds of Separation	114
23	Validating the Validator	117
24	The Reality-Realm of Mind	122
25	Turning Toward Clarity	127
SECTION THREE: MIND AND TIME
26	Time to Understand	133
27	Architect of Time	137
28	Labels and Identity	145
29	The Forward Thrust of Time	154
30	A Seeming Continuity	160
31	Opening the Nanosecond	167
32	Ground of Illusion	172
33	Sensitivity of Mind	179
34	Then Engine of Mind	184
35	Another Kind of Mind	189
SECTION FOUR: GROUND OF UNDERSTANDING		195
36	Programmed Dynamic of Mind	196
37	The Knowing Mind	203
38	Re-Visioning Time and Mind	208
39	Make Room for Understanding	212
40	Turning to Understanding	220
41	Foundation for a New Way of Being	227
42	Recognizing Misunderstanding	231
43	Transforming Characters of Experience	236
44	Relief for the Restless Mind	241
45	Steps Towards Understanding	248
46	Imitations of Understanding	252
SECTION FIVE: LADDER OF UNDERSTANDING		257
47	Finding the Right Track	258
48	Deactivating Dualistic Mind	262
49	Understanding Accommodates	266
50	Candidate for Understanding	271
51	Acknowledging Misunderstanding	275
52	Miracle of Understanding	282
53	Excavating Understanding	286
54	Why We Need Understanding	289
55	Ladder of Understanding	294
56	Obscurations of Mind	300
57	Gift of Understanding	305
58	A Ceaseless Unfolding	309
SECTION SIX: REVEALING UNDERSTANDING		311
59	Tracking Back the How	312
60	How We Understand	321
61	Benefits of Understanding	326
62	Self-Mastery Through Understanding	332
63	Guidelines for Understanding	338
64	Understanding Beyond Mind and Time	341
65	Knowledge-Ability of Understanding	345
66	Freedom of Understanding	350
67	Envisioning a Regime of Understanding	353
68	Revealing Understanding
AFTERWORD: LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE Introducing the Vision and Purpose of the Dharma College Curriculum		361
Sustaining the Light: Efforts to Preserve a 1,400-year Heritage of Wisdom		401
INDEX		409
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