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Contents

Foreword by Jeffrey Hopkins, Ph.D.vii

Introduction: The Need for Peace and Kindness

I. THE BASICS
1. Three Ways to Practice

II. PRACTICING MORALITY
2. Identifying the Scope of Suffering
3. Discovering How Trouble Starts and Stops
4. Refraining from Harm
5. Extending Help
6. Aspiring to Enlightenment

III. PRACTICING CONCENTRATED MEDITATION
7. Focusing the Mind

IV. PRACTICING WISDOM
8. Examining How Beings and Things Exist
9. The Middle Way
10. Mind and the Deep Nature of Mind

V. TANTRA
11. Deity Yoga

VI. STEPS ALONG THE WAY
12. Overview of the Path to Enlightenment

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