buddhism / tibetan

A Spiritual Classic
A comprehensive, accessible, straightforward guide
on how to meditate on each step of the path.Tricycle
l i be r at ion
I N T H E PA L M O F Y O U R H A N D

P abongka Rinpoche was one of the twentieth centurys

most charismatic and revered Tibetan lamas, and in Liber-
ation in the Palm of Your Hand we can see why. In this famous
LIBERATION
twenty-four-day teaching on the lamrim, or stages of the path,
Pabongka Rinpoche weaves together lively stories and quota-
tions with frank observations and practical advice to move
readers step by step along the journey to buddhahood. When
I N T H E
his student Trijang Rinpoche first edited and published these
teachings in Tibetan, an instant classic was born. The flavor
and immediacy of the original Tibetan are preserved in Michael PALM OF
Richards fluid and lively translation, which is substantially
revised in this new edition.

The richest and most enjoyable volume from the lamrim tradi-
tion published to date.Golden Drum
YOUR HAND
Pabongka Rinpoche (18781941) received his geshe degree at
Sera Monastic University in Lhasa. He was the root lama of both
tutors of the present Dalai Lama and profoundly influenced
Pabongka Rinpoche
many of the Gelug lamas who have been instrumental in bring-

ing the Dharma to the West.
Trijang Rinpoche (190181) was Pabongka Rinpoches fore-

Pabongka
most student and one of the Dalai Lamas two main tutors. Rinpoche
A C ONCISE D ISCOURSE ON THE
Michael Richards (1950 ) translated this work in conjunc-
tion with several Tibetan lamas while residing in Dharamsala, PAT H TO ENLIGHTENMENT
India. He now lives with his family in Sydney, Australia.

ISBN 0-86171-500-4
ISBN-13 978-0861-71500-8
US $24.95 Edited by Trijang Rinpoche
Produced with
Environmental
Mindfulness Translated by Michael Richards
Wisdom Publications Boston
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Outlines from the text:

Liberation in The Palm of your Hand
Pabongka Rinpoche
Wisdom Publications

Outlines conceived and produced by Piero Sirianni

 How Atisha was born
1
1 to one of the highest
families The greatness of allowing you to realize that all the teachings are
The greatness 1
without contradiction
of the authors,
How he attained his
given to show 2
good qualities in that
2 The greatness of allowing all the scriptures to present themselves
to you as instructions
the teaching very rebirth
has an 1 How he did this
3 The greatness of allowing you to easily discover the true thinking
in India
immaculate of the Victorious One

source The things he did to The greatness of allowing you to save yourself from the worst
4
3 further the doctrine 2 How he did this misdeed
after gaining in Tibet
these qualities 5 The lamrim is complete because it contains all the subject matter
of sutra and tantra

2 It is easy to put into practice because it emphasizes the steps for

The 6
taming the mind
greatness of
the Dharma, 7
It is superior to the other traditions because it contains
instructions from two gurus who were schooled in the traditions of
given to the Two Great Champions
increase
ones respect 1 The fault of being like
an upturned vessel
for the 1
Abandoning the three types
of faults hindering one from
instruction becoming a worthy vessel
Contemplating the 2 The fault of being like
1 benefits of studying a stained vessel
the Dharma 1 Developing the attitude that you are like
a patient
3 The fault of being like
a leaky vessel
The way How to show respect 2 Developing the attitude that the holy Dharma
is medicine
to listen to
1 2 for the Dharma and
its teacher
the Dharma 3 Developing the attitude that your spiritual guide
2 Cultivating the six helpful is like a skillful doctor
attitudes
3 The actual way to Developing the attitude that diligent practice
4
listen to the Dharma will cure the illness

5 Developing the attitude that tathagatas are Rejoicing over your past lives
1 The first limb: 1
holy beings virtue, which you can discern by
homage
3 1 Thinking about the benefits of teaching
means of inferential valid cognition
6 Developing the attitude that this tradition
How to teach the Dharma
should be preserved for a long time 2 The second limb:
offering
and listen to The way 1
1 Rejoicing over 2
Rejoicing over your present lifes
virtue, which you can discern by
Being respectful to the Dharma and its What to think
the Dharma 2
to teach
2
teacher The third limb:
your own virtue
means of direct valid cognition
3
that has these the Dharma 1 Cleaning your room and arranging the symbols of enlightened body, speech, confession of sins
two greatness 3 What to think and do while teaching
2 What to do
and mind Rejoicing over
while teaching 4 The fourth limb: 2 the virtue of You will come closer to buddhahood by
[of the authors and rejoicing others
1
2 practicing the nstructions he taught you
of the Dharma] Obtaining offerings without deceit and arranging them beautifully
4 The difference between the people you
should teach and those you should not The fifth limb:
requesting the wheel You will also come closer to buddhahood
Adopting the eight-featured sitting postureor whatever posture is 5
of Dharma to be 1
2 through making offerings to the guru and
3 convenient for youon a comfortable seat, and then taking refuge, You will come closer to buddhahood serving him
developing bodhichitta, and so on, in an especially virtuous frame of mind, turned
What things making sure that these practices properly suffuse your mindstream 2 It pleases the victorious ones
The sixth limb:
the disciples 6 petitioning the merit
The buddhas of the ten directions
are willing to teach you Dharma,
3 and teacher 4
Petitioning the merit field field not to enter 3 You will not be disturbed by demons or bad company but you are not even fortunate
should nirvana 1
enough to see the supreme
do together 5 Offering the seven-limbed prayer and a world mandalapractices that 4 You will automatically put a stop to all delusions and nirmanakaya, let alone the
The seventh limb: sambhogakaya, because these
at the end contain all the key points for accumulating merit and self-purification 7
the dedication
misdeeds
appear only to ordinary beings with
pure karma
5 Your insights and realization into the levels and the path
6 Further petitions, which follow the oral instructions, made in order to be sure will increase
1 The preparatory rites your mindstream is sufficiently imbued by your meditations If you do not rely properly on
6 You will not be deprived of virtuous spiritual guides in all 2 your guru, you will not please the
your future rebirths buddhas, no matter how many
offerings you make to them
7 You will not fall into the lower realms
1 The advantages of relying on a
How to pursue the main part spiritual guide
2
8 You will effortlessly achieve all short- and long-term aims
1 What to do in your of the session
meditation sessions

1 If you disparage your guru, you insult all the victorious ones
The disadvantages of not relying
The root 2 on a spiritual guide, or of letting
1 of the path: What to do in the last part of
your devotion lapse The reason you 2
When you develop angry thoughts toward your guru, you destroy your
3 root merits and will be reborn in hell for the same number of eons as the
devotion to a Vajradhara stated that
1 must regard
2 What to do between the session The root: training 1
the guru as a the guru is a buddha moments [of your anger]
spiritual guide meditation sessions 1 yourself to have
faith in your guru buddha 3
Proof that the guru is You will not achieve the supreme state, despite your reliance on tantra
3 Devoting yourself through 2
thought the agent of all the
The reason you Though you seek the benefits of tantra, your practice will achieve only
2 buddhas good works 4
are able to see the hells and the like
him this way Buddhas and
3 bodhisattvas are still You will not develop fresh qualities you have not already developed, and
5
4 Devoting yourself through deeds How to regard working for the sake of those you have will degenerate
3
him properly sentient beings
6 In this life you will suffer undesirable illnesses and so on
4 You cannot be sure of
appearances
7 You will wander endlessly in the lower realms in your next lives

The guru is much kinder 8 You will be deprived of spiritual guides in all future lives
Developing 1
1 The 8 freedoms than all the buddhas He is much kinder
2 respect for him by 1 than all the
remembering
His kindness in teaching buddhas is general
his kindness 2 1 Life forms experiencing continual pain and fear
A short discussion to 2 The 10 endowments the Dharma
1 convince you: identifying He is kinder
specifically than 2 Life forms experiencing continual frustration
the optimum human rebirth His kindness in blessing 2
4 3
your mindstream even Shakyamuni and clinging
1
Its great benefits from the
Buddha
short-term point of view
The sequence
3 Animals
The stimulus to The 4 non-human
His kindness in attracting states with
in which the 1
take the essence
2 Its great benefits from the 4 you into his circle
1
no chance for 4 Celestial beings
from your
disciples are optimum human
ultimate point of view through material gifts Dharma study
to be taught rebirth
Thinking about the great Thinking briefly about how
the actual 2 benefits of the optimum 3 even every moment of it 1 Barbarian among uncivilized savages or in
country where religion was outlawed
instructions human rebirth can be most beneficial
The 4 human 2 Where Buddhas teachings are unavailable,
2 situations with where a Buddha hasnt appeared and taught
no chance for
1 Dharma study 3 Mentally retarded, deaf, dumb, blind
Thinking about the causes for its being so hard to acquire

4 Having instinctive wrong views

2 Some analogies for the difficulty of acquiring it
Thinking about how
3 difficult the optimum
human rebirth is to acquire
3 Its difficult by nature to acquire
The proper 1 Born as a human
graduated training
you should 2 Living in central Buddhist region
undertake after you
2

Having complete and healthy sense and mental

have begun to rely Developing The five
3
faculties
on your spiritual 1 a yearning for
1 personal
guide a good rebirth endowments
4 Not having committed any of the five 5 heinous
Training your mind in the actions
1 stages of the path shared
with the small scope Having instinctive belief in things worthy of
Teaching the means 5 respect: the Dharma, the value of ethics, the path
2 for happiness in your to enlightenment, etc.
next rebirth

1 Living where and when a Buddha has appeared

The five 2 Living where and when a Buddha has taught the
2 endowments Dharma
How to extract in relation
the essence to others 3 Living where and when the Dharma still exists
2 from your
optimum Developing thoughts Living where and when theres a sangha
4
human rebirth 1 of yearning for community following Buddhas teachings
liberation
Training your mind in the Living where and when there are others with
2 stages of the path shared 5 loving concern: patrons, teachers, so we have
with the medium scope clothes, food, other conditions to practice
Ascertaining the
2 nature of the path
leading to liberation
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Teaching that the development of bodhichitta is

1 the sole gateway to theMahayana, and teaching
its benefits as well
Training the mind in the
3 great-scope stages
2 The way to develop bodhichitta
of the path

3 After developing bodhichitta, the way to train in

the deeds of the children of the victorious ones
1 The greatness
of the authors, given
1 The drawback that you will not remember Dharma
to show the teaching
has an immaculate
source
2 The drawback that you will remember [the Dharma] but not
2 The greatness
practice it
of the Dharma, given
to increase 3 The drawback that you will practice but not practice properly The first reason:
ones respect for the
1 the Lord of Death will inevitably come,
instruction
4 and no circumstance at all can prevent this
The drawback of not practicing seriously
3 How to teach
and listen to the The root of the path:
1 devotion to a spiritual 5 The second reason:
Dharma that
guide The drawback of acting vulgarly 2
has these two The drawbacks of thinking how nothing is being added to your lifespan and it is
greatness The stimulus to take 1 not remembering always being subtracted from
1 the essence from your
death 6 The drawback of having to die with regrets
optimum human rebirth
4 The sequence
The proper graduated
in which the disciples training you should The first root: The third reason:
are to be taught 2 3
undertake after you have
How to extract the thinking about thinking about how you will definitely die before getting
the actual begun to rely on your 2 1
instructions
spiritual guide
essence from your
optimum human rebirth the inevitability round to practicing Dharma
1 The advantage of being most beneficial of death

The first reason:

1 2
Training your mind in the
stages of the path shared
with the small scope
2 The advantage of being most powerful
3 1
the lifespan of people from the Southern Continent is not
fixed, and this is especially so for lifespans during these
Training your mind in the Training the mind in the
stages of the path shared great-scope stages 3 It is important at the beginning degenerate times
with the medium scope of the path The advantages
2 of remembering The second reason:
4 It is important in the meantime
death 2 when you will die is uncertain because there are many factors
The second root: contributing toward your death and few toward your life
5 It is important at the end 2 thinking about the
uncertainty of when
The third reason:
6
you will die 3
The advantage that you will die happily and gladly when you will die is uncertain because the body is extremely
fragile

1
The first reason:
Recalling that your present rebirth 1 The nine-part
wealth cannot help you
1 will not last long and that you meditation on death
will die
The third root: 2
The second reason:
3 The actual way to thinking of how nothing friends and relatives cannot help you
3
remember death Meditation on the can help you when you
2
aspects of death die except Dharma
3
The third reason:
even your body cannot help you

Developing 1 The Hell of Continual Resurrection

1 a yearning 1 Thinking about the sufferings of sentient beings in the great, or
hot, hells
for a good 2 The Black Line Hell
rebirth 2 The Surrounding Hells
3 The Assemble-and-be-crushed Hell
Thinking about 3 Thinking about the sufferings of the cold hells
1 the sufferings of 4 The Hell of Lamentation
Thinking of the general sufferings of
the hells hungry ghosts under six headings
4 1
Thinking about the sufferings of the occasional hells heat, cold, hunger, thirst, exhaustion, 5
1 Ghosts with external The Hell of Great Lamentation
and fear obscurations
Thinking about what sort of 6 The Hot Hell
2 happiness or suffering you will Thinking about the
2 Those with internal
have in your next rebirth in either 2 sufferings of the
Thinking of the sufferings of particular obscurations 7 The Extremely Hot Hell
of the two types of migration hungry ghosts 2
types of hungry ghosts
1 Thinking about their 3 Those with obstructions 8 The Hell Without Respite
general sufferings Thinking about the suffering of from knots
1 animals living in overcrowded
1 Thinking about the environments
Training your 3 sufferings of the
Thinking about the
mind in the
animals 2 sufferings of particular
2 Thinking about the suffering of
stages of the animals
the more dispersed animals
path shared
with the
small scope

1 The good qualities of his body

1 The causes on which ones taking
refuge depends 1 The first reason 2 The good qualities of his speech
1 The good qualities
1 The actual identification of
2 The second reason of the Buddha
the things to take refuge in
3 The good qualities of his mind
1 Taking refuge by knowing the good
3 The third reason qualities of ones refuge
2 The reasons why they are 2 The good qualities
2 fitting objects of refuge of the Dharma 4 The good qualities of his good works
What to take refuge in 4 The fourth reason
2 Taking refuge by knowing the
differences between the Three Jewels
3 The good qualities
of the Sangha

3 Taking refuge owing to ones beliefs

Taking refuge: The measure of having
1 3
the holy gateway for entering taken refuge
the teachings
4 Taking refuge and not asserting
another [religion]

4 The benefits of taking refuge Advice on

1 1
Respecting all Buddha images, even those poorly crafted
what not to do
Advice concerning
1 each of the Three
Jewels in turn Advice on 2
2 Respecting even a single letter as if it were the real jewel of Dharma
what to do

5 Advice after one has

taken refuge Advice concerning
3
Respecting pieces from Sangha members clothes, or even
2 all Three Jewels in maroon-colored rags fallen on the ground, as you would the people
common who wore them 1 Killing

2 Taking what is not

given

3 Sexual misconduct
1 The actual black karmic
Teaching the process
means for 4 Lying
2
happiness 1 How karma is fixed
in your next 1 Heavy by nature
5 Divisive speech
rebirth
2 Karma shows great increase 6 Harsh words
2 Heavy because of the intention
The actual way The differences that
2 make for heavy or light 7
to think about 3 One does not meet with something if one Idle gossip
1 cause and has not created the karma for it to happen karma
3 Heavy because of the deed
effect
in general Karma once created will not disappear 8 Covetousness
4
of its own accord 4 Heavy because of the basis
9 Harmful intent
5 Heavy because of always being done
10 Wrong views
Thinking about the black Teaching what the
1 3
side of cause and effect results of these
Thinking about cause karmas are 6 Heavy because no antidote has been
1
and effect in general Teaching applied
1 the actual
Thinking
white karmic
about some
2 process 1
of the specifics The ripened result
of cause and
effect 2
2 Thinking about the white Results congruent with the cause
side of cause and effect 2 Teaching
its results 3 Environmental results

Developing believing faith in

2 the law of cause and effect
the root of all health and
happiness 1 Powerful owing to the field
1 The ripened
qualities
Teaching about the 2 Powerful because one had been a
3 doors that unintentionally candidate for vows
2 Thinking about some The functions lead to powerful karma
of the specifics 2 of the ripened Powerful because of the things
3
qualities being done

4 Powerful because of the intention

The causes
3 to achieve
these ripened
qualities
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1 The general teaching

After thinking about

2 In particular, how to purify
these things, the way to
3 oneself with the four powers
modify your behavior
1 The greatness
of the authors, given
to show the teaching
has an immaculate
source

2 The greatness
of the Dharma, given
to increase
ones respect for the
instruction

3 How to teach
and listen to the The root of the path:
Dharma that
1 devotion to a spiritual
guide
has these two
greatness The stimulus to take
1 the essence from your
optimum human rebirth
4 The sequence
The proper graduated
in which the disciples training you should
are to be taught 2 undertake after you have
How to extract the
the actual begun to rely on your 2 essence from your
spiritual guide
instructions optimum human rebirth

1 2 3

Training your mind in the Training your mind in the Training the mind in the
stages of the path shared stages of the path shared great-scope stages
with the small scope with the medium scope of the path

1 The bane of uncertainty

2 The bane of being dissatisfied

3 The bane of repeatedly leaving bodies

4 The bane of being conceived and born

over and over again
Thinking about the
1 general sufferings
of samsara The bane of moving from high to low
5
over and over again 1 Thinking about the suffering of birth

6 The bane of having no companion 2 The suffering of aging

Developing
3
1
thoughts of The suffering of illness

yearning for
Thinking about the
liberation 1 sufferings of the lower 4 The suffering of death
realms

5 The suffering of being separated from

the beautiful

Thinking about
2 samsaras specific 1 Thinking about human sufferings 6 The suffering of meeting with the ugly
sufferings

Thinking about the Thinking about the suffering of

2 sufferings of the upper Thinking about the sufferings
2 7 seeking the things we desire but not
realms of the demigods finding them

3 Thinking about the sufferings

of the gods
1 Attachment

2 Anger

3 Pride

4 Ignorance 1 The view that equates the

self with the perishable
2 1 The root
delusions
Training your
5 Doubt
2
mind in the
Extreme views
6 [Deluded] views
stages of the 1 The identification of
delusions
path shared 3 The view of holding the
aggregates to be supreme
with the 2 The stages in their 1 1 cause: their foundation
medium scope development
4 Holding an ethic or mode
2 2 cause: their focus or object
1
of behavior to be supreme
How delusions are developed 3 The causes of delusions
3 3 cause: society 5 Wrong views
4 The drawbacks of delusions
4 4 cause: discussions

5 5 cause: familiarity

6
6 cause: unrealistic thinking

1 Mental karma

Thinking about the source

1 of suffering the entry
2 2 Intended karma
to samsara How karma is accumulated

1 Ignorance
1 What happens at death
2 Compositional factors

3 Consciousness
Ascertaining
4
the nature How you leave one rebirth 2 The way one achieves the bardo Name and form
3 at death and are reconceived
2
of the path in another 5 The six senses
leading
to liberation 6 Contact
3 The way one is conceived and reborn
7 Feeling

8 Craving

9 Grasping

10 Becoming

1 The sort of physical rebirth

11 Rebirth
that will stop samsara

12 Aging and death

[Actually] ascertaining
2 the nature of the path
leading to liberation
2 The sort of path that will
stop samsara

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1 The greatness
of the authors, given
to show the teaching
has an immaculate
source

2 The greatness
of the Dharma, given
to increase
1 Teaching that the only way to enter the Mahayana is to develop
ones respect for the
bodhichitta
instruction

3 How to teach
and listen to the The root of the path:
2 You gain the name Child of the Victors
Dharma that
1 devotion to a spiritual
guide
has these two
greatness The stimulus to take 3
1 the essence from your You outshine the Shravakas and Pratyekabuddhas
optimum human rebirth
4 The sequence
The proper graduated
in which the disciples training you should
are to be taught 2 undertake after you have 4 You become a supreme object of offering
How to extract the
the actual begun to rely on your 2 essence from your
spiritual guide
instructions optimum human rebirth

5 You amass an enormous accumulation of merit with ease

The first cause:
1 understanding all sentient beings
1 2 3
6 You rapidly purify sins and obscurations to be your mother
Training your mind in the Training your mind in the Training the mind in the
stages of the path shared stages of the path shared great-scope stages
with the small scope with the medium scope of the path
2 The second cause:
7 You accomplish whatever you wish remembering their kindness

Teaching 8 You are not bothered by harm or hindrances 3 The third cause:
that the repaying their kindness

development 9 You quickly complete all the stages of the path

The fourth cause:
of bodhichitta 4 meditating on the love that comes
1
is the sole 10 You become a fertile source of every happiness for others from the force of attraction
gateway to the
Mahayana, 5 The fifth cause:
and teaching its the great compassion 1 Meditating on how self and others are equal
benefits as well
1 Immeasurable The sixth cause:
6
equanimity altruism 2 Contemplating the many faults resulting from self-cherishing

Training the mind 7 Developing bodhichitta 3 Contemplating the many good qualities resulting from
by means of the [The actual cherishing others
1 2 sevenfold
sevenfold
cause-and-effect training]
instructions 4 The actual contemplation on the interchange of self and others
1 Ultimate bodhichitta

1 Teaching the preliminaries on which

this Dharma depends 5 With these serving as the basis, the way to meditate
on giving and taking
2 Training the mind in
relative bodhichitta
2 Training yourself for the two types of
bodhichitta
1 Converting them through analysis
Converting
1 circumstances
The actual 3 Converting unfortunate circumstances
1 stages into a path to enlightenment through thought
in training for 2 Converting circumstances through the view
bodhichitta Training the mind
2 through the interchange 4 Teaching a practice to be applied to
of self and others your whole life Converting
2 such conditions
through action
5 The criteria of having trained
the mind

3
6 The eighteen commitments
Training your of the mind training practice

mind in the
great-scope 7 The twenty-two pieces of advice
stages of the
1 Recalling the benefits of developing bodhichitta

path
2 Retaking the vows three times each day and three times each night so that you
How to acquire do not lose the bodhichitta you have already developed and increase it as well
1 the vows you have not
yet taken
3 Preventing your development of bad thoughts, such as feeling when another
Advice on creating the cause
wrongs you, I shall not work for his sake
1 for keeping the bodhichitta
you have developed from Trying to dupe your guru,
degenerating in this life 1 abbot, ordination master,
Building your accumulations in order to increase the bodhichitta you have
The way Developing 4
already developed etc., with lies
bodhichitta
2
to develop 2
through the ritual 1
Advice related to
the aspiration form
bodhichitta of taking vows
of bodhichitta 2 Feeling distress when others
Four actions [producing] do something virtuous
Advice on creating the 1 black [karmic results]
2 causes never to be separated
to be abandoned
How to keep your vows from bodhichitta in your 3 Saying unpleasant things to
The advice
2 from degenerating once remaining rebirths bodhisattvas out of hostility
2 related to the 1
you have acquired them involvement form Vigilantly abandoning deliberate lies
of bodhichitta 4 Acting deceitfully, without
Four actions [producing] 2 Keeping honest intentions toward sentient any altruism
2 white [karmic results] beings and not deceiving them
to be cultivated
3 Developing the attitude that bodhisattvas
are teachers and giving them due praise

4 Causing the sentient beings who are maturing

1 Being generous with material things under your care to uphold bodhichitta

2 Being generous with the Dharma

3 The generosity of giving others fearlessness

1 Generosity
The activities
3 to train in after
developing
bodhichitta
1 The ethic of refraining from misdeeds

2 The ethic of gathering virtuous Dharma

The practice of
2 the perfection
3 The ethic of working for the sake of sentient beings
of ethics

The general way

1 to train in the deeds The patience of remaining 1 The laziness of sloth
of the children 1 calm in the face of your
of the victors attackers
2 The laziness of craving evil pursuits
3 How to train
in patience
2 The patience of accepting
3 The laziness of defeatism
suffering
1 Dwelling in a conducive
place
The patience to gain 4 Armor-like perseverance
3
assurance in the Dharma 2 Having few wants
5 The perseverance to collect virtuous things
4 3 Being content
Perseverance

6 The perseverance of working for the sake

of sentient beings 4 Having pure ethics

5 Abandoning the demands

1 The 1 pitfall: laziness
of society
1 Cultivating the prerequisites for
mental quiescence Completely abandoning 2 The 2 pitfall: forgetting the instruction
How to train in the 6 conceptual thoughts such
six perfections in
1 as desire
order to ripen How to train in the 3 The 3 pitfall: excitement and dullness
1
your own very essence of 2 The actual way to achieve mental
mindstream concentration quiescence
4 The 4 pitfall: nonadjustment
mental quiescence 1 Fixing the mind

After Taking this as the basis, how to 2 Fixation with some continuity
5 The 5 pitfall: [readjustment]
3
developing In particular, the way achieve the nine mental states
2 to train in the last
bodhichitta, two perfections
3 Patchy fixation

3
the way to train 4
The way to achieve the mental states Good fixation
in the deeds 4
through the six powers
of the children 5 Becoming disciplined
of the
6
victorious ones 5 How there are four types of mental Becoming peaceful
process
How to train in the 7 Becoming very pacified 1 1 key point: what is
four ways of gathering to be refuted
2 disciples in order to 8 Becoming single-pointed
ripen the mindstreams The way true mental quiescence
6 2 key point: determining
of others 2
develops from this point
9 Fixed absorption the full set of possibilities

3 3 key point: determining that

they are not truly the same
1 How to develop the absorption resembling space
1 Ascertaining the nonexistence
4 4 key point: determining that
of a personal self
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2 When not in absorption, how to pursue the attitude they are not truly different
that things are like an illusion

How to train in the Ascertaining that 1 Ascertaining that physical things do not
very essence of 2 Ascertaining the nonexistence 1 conditioned phenomena naturally exist
2
wisdomspecial of a self of phenomena do not naturally exist
How to train in the insight Ascertaining that consciousness does not
3 2
uncommon part of the naturally exist
path, the Vajrayana
Ascertaining that
2 unconditioned phenomena
3 Then, the way you develop 3 Ascertaining that nonassociated
do not naturally exist
special insight compositional factors do not exist by nature