How to See Yourself as You Really Are

by Dalai Lama

• ISBN13: 9781594152191
• ISBN10: 1594152195
• Edition: Large
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Christian Large Print

Summary

In a practical, uplifting, and deeply relevant new work, His Holiness the Dalai Lama guides readers along the path to self-knowledge using the traditional Buddhist steps of meditative reflection.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Introduction: My Perspective	p. 13
The Need for Insight	p. 37
Laying the Ground for Insight to Grow	p. 39
Discovering the Source of Problems	p. 44
Why Understanding the Truth Is Needed	p. 51
How to Undermine Ignorance	p. 59
Feeling the Impact of Interrelatedness	p. 61
Appreciating the Reasoning of Dependent-Arising	p. 72
Seeing the Interdependence of Phenomena	p. 79
Valuing Dependent-Arising and Emptiness	p. 86
Harnessing the Power of Concentration and Insight	p. 97
Focusing Your Mind	p. 99
Tuning Your Mind for Meditation	p. 115
How to End Self-Deception	p. 133
Meditating on Yourself First	p. 135
Realizing That You Do Not Exist in and of Yourself	p. 138
Determining the Choices	p. 149
Analyzing Oneness	p. 152
Analyzing Difference	p. 158
Coming to a Conclusion	p. 161
Testing Your Realization	p. 170
Extending This Insight to What You Own	p. 178
Balancing Calm and Insight	p. 181
How Persons and Things Actually Exist	p. 187
Viewing Yourself As Like an Illusion	p. 189
Noticing How Everything Depends on Thought	p. 199
Deepening Love with Insight	p. 213
Feeling Empathy	p. 215
Reflecting on Impermanence	p. 224
Absorbing Yourself in Ultimate Love	p. 238
Reviewing The Meditative Reflections	p. 253
Selected Readings	p. 295
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