List of Photographs |
xv |
Foreword |
xvii |
Acknowledgments |
xix |
Technical Note |
xxii |
Note to the Reader |
xxiii |
Introduction: The Tradition, the Teachings, and the Teacher |
xxvii |
A Priceless Jewel in a Garbage Heap |
3 |
Reveling in the Wine of Bliss |
11 |
First Things First and Last Things Last |
25 |
Climbing a Steep Ladder without Hands |
31 |
The Umbrella of Refuge |
45 |
Holding Fast until Enlightenment Is Won |
53 |
Suppose You Own a Fine Horse |
61 |
The Needle Point of Worldly Existence |
69 |
Sheer Pain |
75 |
The Forest of Swords |
83 |
Ignoble Stinginess |
93 |
From Celestial Mansions to Murky Depths |
101 |
No Rest from the Dance |
109 |
A Fish Cast Up on Hot, Dry Sand |
119 |
Careless Craving |
127 |
Ceaseless Roaming |
135 |
Imagine a Blind Tortoise |
143 |
A Lump of Charcoal and a White Conch |
151 |
Just Somebody Dressed in Red |
159 |
The Great Fisher, Death |
169 |
Discarded in Some Dark Hole |
175 |
A Protector, an Island, a Great, Friendly Host |
185 |
Deeds, Like a Shadow, Will Follow |
197 |
A Great Vessel Filled by Drops of Water |
211 |
Black Pebbles and White Pebbles |
223 |
As Helpless as a Worm |
233 |
Giving Our Parents a Piggyback Ride |
247 |
A Mind Like an Overturned Pot |
257 |
The Flavor of Compassion |
261 |
Rudderless on the Sea of Life |
269 |
A Coiled Rope in the Gloom of Night |
277 |
"Beloved Daughter" Kicks His Mother |
285 |
The Hand Must Help the Foot |
293 |
A Cloud of White Light or a Sudden Dawn |
303 |
Turning the Wheel of the Rat Race |
313 |
Doing What Bodhisattvas Do |
321 |
A Protector of the Protectorless |
327 |
Seeing Things Exactly as They Are |
337 |
Insight Yoked with Calm |
345 |
Pouring Water into a Vase with a Hole in It |
351 |
A Four-Petaled Blue Flower |
359 |
The Monkeys Were Perplexed |
367 |
The Flame of a Lamp in a Windless Place |
375 |
A Storm of Thought Processes |
379 |
Ten Million Blind Men |
389 |
Rebirth as a Woodchuck |
397 |
Samsara Falls Apart Like a Tattered Rag |
407 |
If You Think of Yourself as a Tiger |
417 |
It Is "Natural" Not to Be Natural |
423 |
Paying the Tax of Compulsiveness |
429 |
Awakening Certitude |
435 |
Tasting Sugarcane for the First Time |
441 |
A Chamberpot, an Offering Bowl, a Buddha |
453 |
The Dreaming Mind Deludes Itself |
465 |
Tuning the Violin of Meditation |
475 |
The Sharpness of a Thorn, the Roundness of a Pea |
483 |
Outline of the Text |
493 |
Notes |
497 |
Bibliography |
511 |
Tibetan Names and Terms |
523 |
Index |
529 |