LIBERATION IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND

PABONGKA RINPOCHE
A CONCISE DISCOURSE ON THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENMENT
PRACTICAL MAP OF DETAILED OUTLINE
 1) The freedoms (271) 2) Thinking about the 3) Thinking about how
The greatness of the Dharma, given to increase
one's respect for the instruction (60) (7 parts) II I The greatness of the authors, given to show the
teaching has an immaculate source (27) (3 parts) 2) The endowments (273) (2 parts) great benefits of the difficult the optimum
optimum human human rebirth is to
1) The greatness of allowing you to realize that all the 1) The five personal endowments (273) rebirth (275) (3 parts) acquire (278) (3 parts)
1) How Atisha was born to one of the highest families (28)
teachings are without contradiction (60) 2) The five endowments in relation to
2) How he attained his good qualities in that very rebirth (28)
2) The greatness of allowing all the scriptures to present others (274) 1) Its great benefits from the 1) Thinking about the
3) The things he did to further the doctrine after gaining these
themselves to you as instructions (63) qualities (39) (2 parts) short-term point of view causes for its being so
1) How he did this in India (40) Identifying the optimum
3) The greatness of allowing you to easily discover the true (276) hard to acquire (278)
2) How he did this in Tibet (40) human rebirth (271) (2 parts)
thinking of the Victorious One (67) 2) Its great benefits from the 2) Some analogies for
4) The greatness of allowing you to save yourself from the 1) A short discussion to ultimate point of view (276) the difficulty of
PART TWO:
worst misdeed (68)
5) The lamrim is complete because it contains all the subject
PART ONE:
THE
LAMRIM THE
convince you (270) 3) Thinking briefly about how
even every moment of it 3)
acquiring it (281)
It's difficult by nature
matter of sutra and tantra (70) PRELIMINARIES
Liberation PREPARATORY
IV The sequence in which the can be most beneficial (278) to acquire (283)
6) It is easy to put into practice because it emphasizes the
in the palm RITES disciples are to be taught the
steps for taming the mind (72) of your hand actual instructions (104) (2 parts) 1) The stimulus to take the essence from your
7) It is superior to the other traditions because it contains optimum human rebirth (270) (3 parts)
1) The root of the path: 2) The proper graduated training
instructions from two gurus who were schooled in the 3) What things the disciples 2) How to extract the essence from your
devotion to a spiritual you should undertake after you
traditions of the Two Great Champions (72) and teacher should do optimum human rebirth (294) (3 parts)
guide (104) (2 parts) have begun to rely on your
How to teach and listen to the Dharma together at the end (100) spiritual guide (270) (2 parts) 1) Training your mind in the stages
that has these two greatness (of the authors
and of the Dharma) (73) (3 parts)
III 1) What to think (96) 1) What to do in your 2) What to do
4) Devoting yourself
of the path shared with the small
2) What to do while meditation sessions between meditation scope (294)
(104) (3 parts) sessions (267) through deeds (263)
teaching (97) 2) Training your mind in the stages of
1) The way to listen to the 2) The way to teach the 3) Devoting yourself the path shared with the medium
Dharma (73) (3 parts) Dharma (93) (4 parts) 1) The preparatory 2) How to pursue the main part 3) What to do in the last part through thought scope (427)
rites (105) (6 parts) of the session (211) (4 parts) of the session (267) (238)(2 parts)
1) Contemplating the benefits of 1) Thinking about the benefits 3) Training the mind in the great-scope
studying the Dharma (75) of teaching the Dharma (94) 1) Cleaning your room and arranging the stages of the path (499)
2) How to show respect for the 2) Being respectful to the symbols of enlightened body, speech, PART THREE:
Dharma and its teacher (80) Dharma and its teacher (96) and mind (105) THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE PATH
3) The actual way to listen to 3) What to think and do while 2) Obtaining offerings without deceit 1) The root: 2) Developing
the Dharma (81) (2 parts) teaching (96) (2 parts) and arranging them beautifully (115) 1) The advantages of 2) The disadvantages of not relying on a training yourself respect for him
4) The difference between the 3) Adopting the eight-featured sitting relying on a spiritual spiritual guide, or of letting your to have faith in by remembering
1) Abandoning the three types people you should teach and posture— or whatever posture is guide (218) (8 parts) devotion lapse (228) (8 parts) your guru (239) his kindness
of faults hindering one from those you should not (99) convenient for you— on a comfortable (3 parts) (252) (4 parts)
becoming a worthy vessel seat, and then taking refuge, 1) You will come closer to 1) If you disparage your guru, you insult
(81) (3 parts) developing bodhichitta, and so on, in buddhahood (218) (2 parts) all the victorious ones (229) 1) The reason 1) The guru is
1) The fault of being like
2) Cultivating the six helpful an especially virtuous frame of mind, 2) It pleases the victorious ones 2) When you develop angry thoughts you must much kinder
an upturned vessel (81)
attitudes (82) (6 parts) making sure that these practices (222) (2 parts) toward your guru, you destroy your regard the than all the
2) The fault of being like a
stained vessel (81) properly suffuse our mindstream (121) 3) You will not be disturbed by root merits and will be reborn in hell guru as a buddhas (252)
Developing the six attitudes that 3) The fault of being like a 4) Petitioning the merit field (150) demons or bad company (223) for the same number of eons as the buddha (2 parts)
1) you are like a patient (82) leaky vessel (82) 5) Offering the seven-limbed prayer and 4) You will automatically put a stop moments (of your anger) (230) (240) 2) His kindness
2) the holy Dharma is medicine (83) a world mandala—practices that to all delusions and misdeeds 3) You will not achieve the supreme state, 2) The reason in teaching
3) your spiritual guide is like a skillful doctor (84) contain all the key points for (224) despite your reliance on tantra (230) you are the Dharma
4) diligent practice will cure the illness (84) accumulating merit and self- 5) Your insights and realization into 4) Though you seek the benefits of tantra, able to see (254)
5) Tathagatas are holy beings (88) purification (170) (7 parts) the levels and the path will your practice will achieve only the him this 3) His kindness
6) this tradition should be preserved for a long time (88) 6) Further petitions, which follow the oral increase (224) hells and the like (231) way (241) in blessing
instructions, made in order to be sure 6) You will not be deprived of 5) You will not develop fresh qualities 3) How to your
The seven-limbed practice your mindstream is sufficiently virtuous spiritual guides in all you have not already developed, and regard him mindstream
1) Rejoicing over your own 1) The first limb: homage (171) imbued by your meditations (201) your future rebirths (225) those you have will degenerate (231) properly (256)
virtue (191) (2 parts) 2) The second limb: offering (175) 7) You will not fall into the lower 6) In this life you will suffer undesirable (242) 4) His kindness
2) Rejoicing over the virtue 3) The third limb: confession of sins (184) realms (227) illnesses and so on (232) (4 parts) in attracting
of others (193) 4) The fourth limb: rejoicing (190) (2 parts) 8) You will effortlessly achieve all 7) You will wander endlessly in the lower you into his
5) The fifth limb: requesting the wheel of Dharma to be turned (193) short- and long-term aims (228) realms in your next lives (233) circle through
6) The sixth limb: petitioning the merit field not to enter nirvana (194) 8) You will be deprived of spiritual material gifts
1) Rejoicing over your past lives' 7) The seventh limb: the dedication (195) guides in all future lives (234)
virtue, which you can discern (257)
by means of inferential valid 1) You will come closer to buddhahood 1) The buddhas of the ten directions are willing to teach you 1) Vajradhara stated that the guru is a buddha (242) 1) He is much kinder than
cognition (192) by practicing the instructions he Dharma, but you are not even fortunate enough to see the 2) Proof that the guru is the agent of all the all the buddhas is
2) Rejoicing over your present taught you (219) supreme nirmanakaya, let alone the sambhogakaya, because these buddhas' good works (243) general (252)
life's virtue, which you can 2) You will also come closer to appear only to ordinary beings with pure karma (222) 3) Buddhas and bodhisattvas are still working for 2) He is kinder specifically
discern by means of direct buddhahood through making offerings 2) If you do not rely properly on your guru, you will not please the the sake of sentient beings (245) than even Shakyamuni
valid cognition (192) to the guru and serving him (221) buddhas, no matter how many offerings you make to them (223) 4) You cannot be sure of appearances (247) Buddha (253) 2
1) Recalling that your present 3) The actual way to 1) The nine-part meditation on death (304) (3 parts) 2) Meditation on the aspects of death (318)
rebirth will not last long and remember death (304) 1) The Hell of Continual
that you will die (294) (3 parts) (2 parts) Resurrection (326)
The first root: thinking about the The second root: thinking about the The third root: thinking of 2) The Black Line Hell (327)
1) The drawbacks of not 2) The advantages of inevitability of death (304) uncertainty of when you will die (310) how nothing can help you 3) and-be-crushed Hell (327)
remembering death remembering death 1) The first reason: the Lord of 1) The first reason: the lifespan of people when you die except Dharma 4) The Hell of Lamentation (328)
(295) (6 parts) (301) (6 parts) Death will inevitably come, from the Southern Continent is not fixed, (315) 5) The Hell of Great Lamentation
and no circumstance at all can and this is especially so for lifespans 1) The first reason: wealth (328)
1) The drawback that you will not 1) The advantage of being most prevent this (304) during these degenerate times (310) cannot help you (315) 6) The Hot Hell (328)
remember Dharma (295) beneficial (301) 2) The second reason: thinking 2) The second reason: when you will die is 2) The second reason: 7) The Extremely Hot Hell (328)
2) The drawback that you will 2) The advantage of being most how nothing is being added to uncertain because there are many factors friends and relatives 8) The Hell Without Respite (329)
remember (the Dharma) but not powerful (303) your lifespan and it is always contributing toward your death and few cannot help you (316)
practice it (295) 3) It is important at the being subtracted from (307) toward your life (313) 3) The third reason: even
3) (The drawback that) you will beginning (303) 3) The third reason: thinking 3) The third reason: when you will die is your body cannot help 1) Thinking of the general sufferings
practice but not practice properly 4) It is important in the about how you will definitely uncertain because the body is extremely you (317) of hungry ghosts under six
(295) meantime (303) die before getting round to fragile (313) headings—heat, cold, hunger,
4) The drawback of not practicing 5) It is important at the end practicing Dharma (309) thirst, exhaustion, and fear (339)
seriously (300) (303) 1) Thinking about the sufferings of 2) Thinking of the sufferings of
5) The drawback of acting vulgarly 6) The advantage that you will sentient beings in the great, or hot hells (325) (8 parts) particular types of hungry ghosts
1) Thinking about the (340) (3 parts)
(300) die happily and gladly (303) 2) The Surrounding Hells (332)
sufferings of the hells
6) The drawback of having to die 3) Thinking about the sufferings of the cold hells (333)
(325) (4 parts) 1) Ghosts with external
with regrets (300) 4) Thinking about the sufferings of the occasional hells (335)
2) Thinking about what sort of 2) Thinking about the obscurations (340)
happiness or suffering you will sufferings of the hungry 2) Those with internal
1) Developing a yearning for a have in your next rebirth in either ghosts (338) (2 parts) obscurations (340)
good rebirth (294) (2 parts) of the two types of migration (323) 1) Thinking about their general 1) Thinking about the suffering of
3) Thinking about the 3) Those with obstructions
(3 parts) sufferings (346) animals living in overcrowded
sufferings of the from knots (341)
2) Thinking about the sufferings of environments (348)
animals (346) (2 parts) particular animals (348) (2 parts) 2) Thinking about the suffering of
PART FOUR: 1) Taking refuge: the holy the more dispersed animals 1) The good qualities of
TRAINING YOUR gateway for entering the 1) The causes on which one's taking (348) his body (360)
MIND IN THE STAGES teachings (353) (5 parts) 1) The actual identification of the
refuge depends (353) things to take refuge in (354) 2) The good qualities of
OF THE PATH 2) What to take refuge in (353) (2 parts) 1) The first reason (357) his speech (362)
SHARED WITH 2) Teaching the means for happiness 2) The reasons why they are fitting
3) The measure of having objects of refuge (357) (4 parts) 2) The second reason (358) 3) The good qualities of
THE SMALL SCOPE in your next rebirth (352) (2 parts) taken refuge (359) (4 parts) 3) The third reason (358) his mind (364)
(294) (2 PARTS) 4) The benefits of taking refuge (375) 4) The fourth reason (358) 4) The good qualities of
5) Advice after one has taken refuge 1) Taking refuge by knowing his good works (366)
1) Thinking about cause and (380) (2 parts) the good qualities of one's
2) Developing believing faith in refuge (359) (3 parts)
the law of cause and effect in general (388) (2 parts)
1) Advice concerning each of the 2) Taking refuge by knowing the 1) Respecting all Buddha images, 1) The good qualities
effect—the root of all health Three Jewels in turn (380) (2 parts) differences between the Three even those poorly crafted (381) of the Buddha
and happiness (386) (3 parts) 2) Advice concerning all Three Jewels (370)
1) The actual way to think 2) Respecting even a single letter as (360) (4 parts)
about cause and effect in Jewels in common (383) 3) Taking refuge owing to one's if it were the real jewel of Dharma 2) The good qualities of
2) Thinking about some of the general (388) (4 parts) beliefs (371) (381) the Dharma (367)
specifics (414) (3 parts) 1) How karma is fixed (389) 4) Taking refuge and not asserting 3) Respecting pieces from Sangha 3) The good qualities of
2) Thinking about some of the 2) Karma shows great increase another (religion) (371) members' clothes, or even the Sangha (368)
1) The ripened qualities (414) specifics of cause and (390) maroon-colored rags fallen on the
3) One does not meet with 1) Advice on what not to do (380)
2) The functions of the ripened effect (397) (3 parts) ground, as you would the people The tens non-virtures
something if one has not created 2) Advice on what to do (381) (3 parts)
qualities (415) who wore them (382) 1) Killing (398)
3) The causes to achieve these 2) Thinking about the white the karma for it to happen (393) 2) Taking what is not
ripened qualities (415) side of cause and effect 4) Karma once created will not 1) The actual black karmic given (401)
(408) (2 parts) disappear of its own accord process (397) (10 parts) 3) Sexual misconduct
(395) 2) The differences that make for (401)
3) After thinking about these 1) Teaching the actual white 1) Thinking about the black side of heavy or light karma (405) (6 parts) 1) Heavy by nature (405) 4) Lying (402)
things, the way to modify karmic process (408) 3) Teaching what the results of these 2) Heavy because of the intention 5) Divisive speech (402)
your behavior (419) (2 parts) cause and effect (397) (3 parts) (405)
2) Teaching its results karmas are (406) 6) Harsh words (403)
(409) (3 parts) 3) Heavy because of the deed (406) 7) Idle gossip (403)
1) The ripened result (409) 1) Powerful owing to the field (410) 4) Heavy because of the basis (406) 8) Covetousness (404)
1) The general teaching (419)
2) Results congruent with the 2) Powerful because one had been a 5) Heavy because of always being
2) In particular, how to purify 9) Harmful intent (404)
3) Teaching about the doors that cause (409) candidate for vows (410) done (406)
oneself with the four 10) Wrong views (405)
unintentionally lead to 3) Environmental results (410) 3) Powerful because of the things being done (412) 6) Heavy because no antidote has
powers (421)
powerful karma (410) (4 parts) 4) Powerful because of the intention (413) been applied (406) 3
 TRAINING YOUR MIND IN
THE STAGES OF THE PATH
SHARED WITH
THE MEDIUM SCOPE
(427) (2 PARTS)
1) Developing thoughts of 2) Ascertaining the nature of
yearning for liberation the path leading to
(427) (2 parts) liberation (461) (2 parts)

1) Thinking about the general 2) Thinking about samsara’s 1) Thinking about the source of suffering—the 2) (Actually) ascertaining the nature of the
sufferings of samsara (431) specific sufferings (440) entry to samsara (461) (3 parts) path leading to liberation (487) (2 parts)
(6 parts) (2 parts)

1) The bane of uncertainty (431) 1) Thinking about the 1) The sort of physical rebirth
2) The bane of being dissatisfied sufferings of the lower that will stop samsara (487)
(433) realms (440) 2) The sort of path that will stop
3) The bane of repeatedly leaving 2) Thinking about the samsara (487)
bodies (434) sufferings of the upper
4) The bane of being conceived and realms (440) (3 parts)
born over and over again (436)
5) The bane of moving from high to
low over and over again (438) 1) How delusions are 2) How karma is accumulated 3) How you leave one rebirth at death
6) The bane of having no 1) Thinking about human sufferings developed (461) (4 parts) (474) (2 parts) and are reconceived in another (476)
companion (439) (440) (7 parts) (3 parts)
2) Thinking about the sufferings of
the demigods (450) 1) Mental karma (474)
1) What happens at death (476)
3) Thinking about the sufferings of 2) Intended karma (475)
2) The way one achieves the bardo (478)
the gods (451) 3) The way one is conceived and reborn
1) Thinking about the suffering of (479) (12 parts)
birth (440)
2) The suffering of aging (442) The twelve interdependent links
3) The suffering of illness (446) 1) The identification of 2) The stages in their 3) The causes of 4) The drawbacks
delusions (462) development (468) delusions (469) of delusions 1) Ignorance (480)
4) The suffering of death (446) 2) Compositional factors (480)
5) The suffering of being separated (6 parts) (472)
3) Consciousness (480)
from the beautiful (447) 4) Name and form (481)
The root delusions
6) The suffering of meeting with 5) The six senses (481)
(462) (6 parts)
the ugly (447) 6) Contact (481)
7) Thinking about the suffering of 1) The first cause: their foundation (469)
2) The second cause: their focus or object (469) 7) Feeling (481)
seeking the things we desire but 1) Attachment (463) 8) Craving (483)
not finding them (448) 3) The third cause: society (470)
2) Anger (463) 4) The fourth cause: discussions (471) 9) Grasping (483)
3) Pride (464) 5) The fifth cause: familiarity (472) 10) Becoming (483)
4) Ignorance (464) 6) The sixth cause: unrealistic thinking (472) 11) Rebirth (483)
5) Doubt (465) 12) Aging and death (484)
6) (Deluded) views (465) (5 parts)

1) The view that equates the self

with the perishable (466)
2) Extreme views (466)
3) The view of holding the
aggregates to be supreme
(466)
4) Holding an ethic or mode of
behavior to be supreme (467)
5) Wrong views (467)
4
1) Teaching that the development of bodhichitta is 2) The way to develop 3) The activities to train in after 1) How to acquire the vows you have not yet 2) The advice related to the involvement
the sole gateway to the Mahayana, and bodhichitta (516) (3 parts) developing bodhichitta (574) taken (651) form of bodhichitta (660)
teaching its benefits as well (500) (10 parts) 2) How to keep your vows from degenerating
2) Developing bodhichitta 1) Advice related to the aspiration form of
1) The actual stages in training once you have acquired them (658) (2 parts) bodhichitta (658) (2 parts)
1) Teaching that the only way to enter the for bodhichitta (516) (2 parts) through the ritual of taking
Mahayana is to develop bodhichitta (502) vows (573,651) (2 parts)
2) You gain the name “child of the victors” (505) 1) Ultimate bodhichitta (538) 1) Advice on creating the cause for 2) Advice on creating the causes
3) You outshine the Shravakas and 1) Training the mind by means of 2) Training the mind through the 2) Training the mind in keeping the bodhichitta you have never to be separated from
Pratyekabuddhas (506) the sevenfold cause-and-effect interchange of self and others relative bodhichitta (538) developed from degenerating in bodhichitta in your remaining
4) You become a supreme object of offering instructions (517) (2 parts) (536) (7 parts) (5 parts) this life (658) (4 parts) rebirths (659) (2 parts)
(506)
5) You amass an enormous accumulation of 1) Immeasurable equanimity (519) 1) Teaching the preliminaries on 1) Meditating on how self 1) Recalling the benefits of 1) Four actions (producing)
merit with ease (507) 2) (The actual sevenfold training) which this Dharma depends and others are equal (538) developing bodhichitta (658) black (karmic results) to
6) You rapidly purify sins and obscurations (510) (522) (7 parts) (537) 2) Contemplating the many 2) Retaking the vows three times be abandoned (659)
7) You accomplish whatever you wish (511) 2) Training yourself for the two faults resulting from self- each day and three times each (4 parts)
8) You are not bothered by harm or hindrances 1) The first cause: understanding all types of bodhichitta (538) (2 cherishing (539) night so that you do not lose the
sentient beings to be your mother parts) 3) Contemplating the many bodhichitta you have already 1) Trying to dupe your
(511)
(522) 3) Converting unfortunate good qualities resulting developed and increase it as well guru, abbot, ordination
9) You quickly complete all the stages of
2) The second cause: remembering circumstances into a path to from cherishing others (658) master, etc., with lies
the path (512)
their kindness (525) enlightenment (550) (2 parts) (541) 3) Preventing your development of (659)
10) You become a fertile source of every
3) The third cause: repaying their 4) Teaching a practice to be 4) The actual contemplation bad thoughts, such as feeling 2) Feeling distress when
happiness for others (513)
kindness (527) applied to your whole life (560) on the interchange of self when another wrongs you, “I others do something
TRAINING THE MIND IN 4) The fourth cause: meditating on 5) The criteria of having trained the and others (546) shall not work for his sake” (659) virtuous (659)
THE GREAT-SCOPE STAGES the love that comes from the mind (564) 5) With these serving as the 4) Building your accumulations in 3) Saying unpleasant
OF THE PATH (499) (3 PARTS) force of attraction (529) 6) The eighteen commitments of basis, the way to order to increase the bodhichitta things to bodhisattvas
5) The fifth cause: the great the mind training practice (566) meditate on giving and you have already developed out of hostility (659)
compassion (530) 7) The twenty-two pieces of advice taking (547) (659) 4) Acting deceitfully,
3) After developing bodhichitta, the without any altruism
6) The sixth cause: altruism (533) (569)
way to train in the deeds of the (659)
7) Developing bodhichitta (533)
children of the victorious ones 2) How to train in the four ways of 1) Converting circumstances 1) Converting them through
(574) (2 parts) gathering disciples in order to ripen through thought (551) (2 parts) analysis (551) 2) Four actions (producing)
1) The general way to train in the deeds of the 2) Converting such conditions 2) Converting circumstances white (karmic results) to be
the mindstreams of others (650)
1) How to train in the six children of the victors (574) (4 parts) through action (559) through the view (554) cultivated (659) (4 parts)
perfections in order to ripen your
own mindstream (574) (3 parts) 1) Generosity 2) The practice of the perfection 3) How to train in patience 4) Perseverance (587) (6 parts) 1) Vigilantly abandoning
(575) (3 parts) of ethics (579) (3 parts) (581) (3 parts) deliberate lies (659)
2) Keeping honest
2) In particular, the way to train in the intentions toward
last two perfections (593) (2 parts) 1) Being generous with 1) The ethic of refraining from 1) The patience of remaining calm in Three types of laziness that hinder perseverance:
material things (575) misdeeds (579) the face of your attackers (581) 1) The laziness of sloth (588) sentient beings and not
2) Being generous with the 2) The ethic of gathering 2) The patience of accepting 2) The laziness of craving evil pursuits (588) deceiving them (659)
1) How to train in the very essence 3) Developing the attitude
Dharma (575) virtuous Dharma (580) suffering (585) 3) The laziness of defeatism (588)
of concentration—mental that bodhisattvas are
3) The generosity of giving 3) The ethic of working for the 3) The patience to gain assurance in Three types of perseverance:
quiescence (593) (6 parts) teachers and giving
others fearlessness (576) sake of sentient beings (580) the Dharma (586) 1) Armor-like perseverance (590)
2) The perseverance to collect virtuous things them due praise (660)
(591) 4) Causing the sentient
1) Cultivating the prerequisites for 2) The actual way to achieve mental 3) Taking this as the basis, how to achieve 3) The perseverance of working for the sake of beings who are maturing
mental quiescence (595) (6 parts) quiescence (599) (5 parts) the nine mental states (612) (9 parts) sentient beings (591) under your care to
uphold bodhichitta (660)
1) Dwelling in a conducive place (595) 1) The first pitfall: laziness (600) 1) Fixing the mind (612) 4) The way to achieve the mental
2) Having few wants (597) 2) The second pitfall: forgetting the 2) Fixation with some continuity (612) 1) The first key point: what is to be refuted (626)
states through the six powers 2) The second key point: determining the full set
3) Being content (597) instruction (601) 3) Patchy fixation (613) (616)
4) Having pure ethics (597) 3)The third pitfall: excitement and 4) Good fixation (613) of possibilities (632)
5) Abandoning the demands of society (597) dullness (604) 5) Becoming disciplined (613) 5) How there are four types of 3) The third key point: determining that they are
6) Completely abandoning conceptual 4)The fourth pitfall: nonadjustment (606) 6) Becoming peaceful (614) mental process (617) not truly the same (633)
thoughts such as desire (598) 5) The fifth pitfall: (readjustment) (610) 7) Becoming very pacified (614) 4) The fourth key point: determining that they
6) The way true mental quiescence are not truly different (636)
8) Becoming single-pointed (614) develops from this point (617)
2) How to train in the very essence 9) Fixed absorption (615)
1) Ascertaining the nonexistence of a 1) Ascertaining that physical things do not
of wisdom — special insight personal self (620) (2 parts) naturally exist (642)
1) How to develop the absorption resembling space (620) (4 parts)
(620) (3 parts) 2) Ascertaining the nonexistence of a 2) Ascertaining that consciousness does not
2) When not in absorption, how to pursue the attitude that things are like an illusion (638)
self of phenomena (642) (2 parts) naturally exist (644)
3) How to train in the uncommon part 3) Then, the way you develop special 1) Ascertaining that conditioned phenomena do not naturally exist (642) (3 parts) 3) Ascertaining that nonassociated compositional
of the path, the Vajrayana (649) insight (647) 2) Ascertaining that unconditioned phenomena do not naturally exist (646) factors do not exist by nature (646) 5