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| List of Photographs | |
| Foreword | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Note to the Reader | |
| Introduction: The Tradition, the Teachings, and the Teacher | |
| A Priceless Jewel in a Garbage Heap | p. 3 |
| Reveling in the Wine of Bliss | p. 11 |
| First Things First and Last Things Last | p. 25 |
| Climbing a Steep Ladder without Hands | p. 31 |
| The Umbrella of Refuge | p. 45 |
| Holding Fast until Enlightenment Is Won | p. 53 |
| Suppose You Own a Fine Horse | p. 61 |
| The Needle Point of Worldly Existence | p. 69 |
| Sheer Pain | p. 75 |
| The Forest of Swords | p. 83 |
| Ignoble Stinginess | p. 93 |
| From Celestial Mansions to Murky Depths | p. 101 |
| No Rest from the Dance | p. 109 |
| A Fish Cast Up on Hot, Dry Sand | p. 119 |
| Careless Craving | p. 127 |
| Ceaseless Roaming | p. 135 |
| Imagine a Blind Tortoise | p. 143 |
| A Lump of Charcoal and a White Conch | p. 151 |
| Just Somebody Dressed in Red | p. 159 |
| The Great Fisher, Death | p. 169 |
| Discarded in Some Dark Hole | p. 175 |
| A Protector, an Island, a Great, Friendly Host | p. 185 |
| Deeds, Like a Shadow, Will Follow | p. 197 |
| A Great Vessel Filled by Drops of Water | p. 211 |
| Black Pebbles and White Peebles | p. 223 |
| As Helpless As a Worm | p. 233 |
| Giving Out Parents a Piggyback Ride | p. 247 |
| A Mind Like an Overturned Pot | p. 257 |
| The Flavor of Compassion | p. 261 |
| Rudderless on the Sea of Life | p. 269 |
| A Coiled Rope in the Gloom of Night | p. 277 |
| "Beloved Daughter" Kicks His Mother | p. 285 |
| The Hand Must Help the Foot | p. 293 |
| A Cloud of White Light or a Sudden Dawn | p. 303 |
| Turning the Wheel of the Rat Race | p. 313 |
| Doing What Bodhisattvas Do | p. 321 |
| A Protector of the Protectorless | p. 327 |
| Seeing Things Exactly as They Are | p. 337 |
| Insight Yoked with Calm | p. 345 |
| Pouring Water into a Vase with a Hole in It | p. 351 |
| A Four-Petaled Blue Flower | p. 359 |
| The Monkeys Were Perplexed | p. 367 |
| The Flame of a Lamp in a Windless Place | p. 375 |
| A Storm of Thought Processes | p. 379 |
| Ten Million Blind Men | p. 389 |
| Rebirth as a Woodchuck | p. 397 |
| Samsara Falls Apart Like a Tattered Rag | p. 407 |
| If You Think of Yourself as a Tiger | p. 417 |
| It Is "Natural" Not to Be Natural | p. 423 |
| Paying the Tax of Compulsiveness | p. 429 |
| Awakening Certitude | p. 435 |
| Tasting Sugarcane for the First Time | p. 441 |
| A Chamberpot, an Offering Bowl, a Buddha | p. 453 |
| The Dreaming Mind Deludes Itself | p. 465 |
| Tuning the Violin of Meditation | p. 475 |
| The Sharpness of a Thorn, the Roundness of a Pea | p. 483 |
| Outline of the Text | p. 493 |
| Notes | p. 497 |
| Bibliography | p. 511 |
| Glossary of Tibetan Names and Terms | p. 523 |
| Index | p. 529 |
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