1. What Is the Path? The Dharma 3 Fear of Enlightenment 5 Intelligence and Progress 6 One Taste 8 Four Noble Truths 11 Signposts 16 Grace, or Help Along the Way 18 The Role of a Teacher 22 Roads to Fulfillment 24 2. How to Practice Purpose, Effort, and Surrender 29 Training the Heart 32 Meditation Instructions 34 Nintendo Dharma 37 Acceptance 39 Not Seeing Dukkha Is Dukkha 42 Understanding Pain 44 Feeling Good, Feeling Bad: Progress in Meditaion 47 Spontaneity and Practice 49 Coming Home 50 Energy 51 Insight 53 3. Freeing the Mind Hindrances: A Dirty Cloth 57 Relating to Thoughts 59 Views and Opinions 62 Judgment 500 64 Conceit and the Comparing Mind 66 Liberating Emotions 68 Emotional Bondage, Emotional Freedom 72 Use Your Umbrella 75 Fear Itself 77 Thank You, Boredom 80 Unworthiness 82 Guilt 84 Jealousy 87 Desire 88 4. Psychology and Dharma Ego and Self 93 Personality and Transformation 96 Psychotherapy and Meditaion 100 Yogi Mind 104 5. Selflessness Big Dipper 109 Birth of the Ego 114 No Parachute, No Ground 116 Coming to Zero 118 Ecstasy and Emptiness 120 6. Karma The Light of the World 123 Obvious Karma 125 Subtleties of Karma 127 Ignorance, the Root of Harming 130 Mindfulness, the Root of Happiness 131 Karma and No-Self 134 Animals 136 7. Practice in the World Staying Present 139 Wisdom and Love 141 Lovingkindness 143 Compassion 147 The Art of Communication 150 Sharing the Dharma 153 Relationship with Parents 155 Right Livelihood 159 On Reading Texts 161 Humor 163 Training for Death 165 Vipassana and Death 166 Metta and Death 168 To Benefit All Beings 170
