The Ten Perfections are keys that open the door to inexhaustible miracles in our life. They are heart practices of compassionate beings through which we perfect our actions of body, speech, and mind. The Ten Perfections are manifestations of compassion in our living experience. The Ten Perfections are divided into two parts. The first five are the causal Perfections: the Perfections of generosity, wholesome conduct, patience, effort and concentration. The second five are the Perfections of fruition: The Perfections of power, aspirational prayers, skillful means, and discriminating awareness. As compassionate beings, we nurture our wholesome qualities through the causal Perfections. Once our practice bears fruit, the Perfections become a skillful means to help all beings. The qualities of the Ten Perfections and their expressions in our lives are infinite on the path to realizing our awakened nature.

Inexhaustible Miracles: The Ten Perfections on the Path of Compassionate Beings, Tempa Dukte Lama, Olmo Ling, Paperback, 139 pp, $16.95

Genye Tempa Dukte Lama is an ordained Tibetan Bon lama. He is the founder and spiritual director of Olmo Ling Bon Center, a Tibetan Bon Center affiliated with Menri Monastery, and the founder of Olmo Ling Publications. He is an artist, poet, and the author of The Intimate Mind and Inexhaustible Miracles. Tempa Lama trained in Menri Monastery, India, from the age of six under the close guidance of H.H. 33rd Menri Trizin, the world-wide spiritual leader of Bon. He has lived in the US since 2000 and teaches regular retreats and workshops on contemplative healing practice and other Bon practices, being with dying, the stages of meditation, and living a spiritual path informed by compassion.

CONTENTS: Inexhaustible Miracles
Foreword by Roshi Joan Halifax	xi
Introduction	1
1 THE PERFECTION OF GENEROSITY	4
Developing Generosity	8
Four Aspects of Generosity	9
The Threefold Expression of Generosity	12
2 THE PERFECTION OF MORALITY	16
Increasing Our Wholesome Qualities	17
Making Unwholesome Actions Harmless	18
The Three Unwholesome Actions of Body	21
The Four Unwholesome Actions of Speech	24
The Three Unwholesome Actions of Mind	27
Actively Helping Others	29
3 THE PERFECTION OF PATIENCE	33
The Patience of Willingly Enduring Suffering	34
Patience Based on Compassion	35
Patience Based on Wisdom	36
The Patience of Not Retaliating Against Someone Who Has Harmed Us	38
Patience to Face the Nature of Reality Without Fear	41
4 THE PERFECTION OF EFFORT	45
The Four Aspects of Wholesome Effort	47
Armor-Like Effort	48
Effort of Action	50
Effort for the Welfare of All Beings	54
5 THE PERFECTION OF CONCENTRATION	58
Two Ways of Cultivating Concentration	59
Increasing Our Concentration Through Mindfulness	63
Increasing Our Concentration Through Calm Abiding Meditation	66
Spontaneous Concentration	70
6 THE POWER OF COMPASSIONATE BEINGS	72
The Power of Awakened Mind	74
Cultivating Power	76
Manifesting Power	79
7 THE PERFECTION OF COMPASSION	81
Conditions That Give Rise to Compassion	83
Cultivating Compassion	83
The Twofold Expression of Compassion	86
Three Ways of Manifesting Compassion	87
Boundless Compassion	89
8 THE PERFECTION OF ASPIRATIONAL PRAYERS AND DEDICATION	91
Prayers of a Compassionate Being	93
The Object of Our Prayer	94
Unsurpassable Prayer	97
9 THE PERFECTION OF SKILLFUL MEANS	101
Skillful Investigation	102
Skillful Transformation	105
Skillful Means of a Compassionate Being	106
10 THE PERFECTION OF DISCRIMINATING AWARENESS	109
The Benefits of Discriminating Awareness	111
Developing Discriminating Awareness	117
Contemplations to Develop Discriminating Awareness	120
The Realization of Discriminating Awareness	123
Discriminating Awareness Giving Rise to Fivefold Wisdom	125
Heart Sutra	131
Acknowledgments	137