Foreword
|
ix
|
Part One The Buddhist Path
|
|
1. My Focus
|
3
|
|
|
2. Empathy: The Basic Practice
|
10
|
|
|
3. Meditation: Channeling the Force of Mind
|
16
|
Identifying the Mind
|
20
|
Technique
|
22
|
4. Knowledge: The Purpose of Concentration
|
24
|
Begin with Yourself
|
27
|
Progress to Enlightenment
|
28
|
Qualities of Buddhahood
|
34
|
Part Two: Introduction to the Great Completeness
|
|
5. The Fundamental Principle Common to All Orders of Tibetan Buddhism
|
41
|
Innermost Awareness Pervades Every Type of Consciousness
|
43
|
Praticing the Path Right Now
|
44
|
6. The Innate Mind of Clear Light
|
46
|
No Exertion
|
46
|
The Centrality of the Mind of Clear Light
|
47
|
Types of Books
|
48
|
Part Three Commentary of Patrul Rinpoche's Three Keys Penetrating the Core
|
|
7. The First Key: Introducing Innermost Awareness
|
53
|
Relax
|
55
|
Stop Thinking for a While
|
56
|
Shock
|
56
|
8. The Supreme Way to Rest
|
61
|
Levels of Consciousness
|
61
|
The Clear Light within All Consciousness
|
74
|
9. The All-Good Diamond Mind
|
77
|
Aiming Your Attention at Space
|
78
|
Identifying Innermost Awareness
|
78
|
10. The Second Key: Maintaining Meditation
|
81
|
No Danger
|
82
|
Clouds and Sky
|
83
|
Meeting of Mother and Child
|
84
|
The Clear Light of Death
|
85
|
Mother and Child Clear Lights in the Poem
|
87
|
Remaining in the Experience
|
88
|
Dealing with Interference
|
88
|
Inside Meditation and Outside Meditation Are Similar
|
89
|
Three Types of Release from Conception
|
91
|
11. The Gradual Way
|
93
|
The Danger
|
94
|
Coming to a Decision
|
95
|
12. The Third Key: Self-Release
|
97
|
The Space of Noninvolvement
|
98
|
The Crucial Difference
|
101
|
Confidence
|
102
|
13. Uniqueness of the Three Keys
|
104
|
Altrusism
|
105
|
The Greatness of the Path
|
105
|
The Triad of View, Meditation, and Behavior
|
109
|
The Final Lines of the Poem
|
115
|
Part Four The Old and New Translation Schools Compared
|
|
14. Basic Structure in the Old Translation School of the Great Completeness
|
119
|
The Two Truths
|
119
|
Basis, Paths, and Fruits
|
123
|
A Special Meaning of "Meditation"
|
128
|
15. Advice
|
133
|
Appendix: Three Keys Penetrating the Core by Dza Patrul Jigme Chokyi Wangpo
|
137
|
Selected Readings
|
141
|
Index
|
143
|