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Foreword by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama

Acknowledgments

Introduction

  1.  The “Why” and “How” of Meditation

  2.  The Heart Essence

  3.  Guided Contemplations and Loving-Kindness Meditations

  4.  Dependent Arising: Cause and Effect

  5.  Transcendental Dependent Arising: Unsatisfactoriness

  6.  Faith and Confidence

  7.  Mindfulness of Feelings and Sensations: A Technique of Meditation

  8.  Joy

  9.  Concentration: The Meditative Absorptions

10.  A Technique of Meditation

11.  Further Steps

12.  Nonmaterial Meditative Absorptions

13.  Knowledge and Vision of Things as They Really Are

14.  Disenchantment

15.  Dispassion and Freedom

16.  Day by Day

Notes

Glossary

Index

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