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| Introduction | |
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| The First Point: The Preliminaries, Which Are Fundamental Dharma | |
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| First of all, train in the preliminaries | |
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| The Second Point: The Main Practice: Training in the Bodhichittas | |
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| The Cultivation of Ultimate Bodhichitta | |
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| Having attained stability, let the mystery be revealed | |
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| Consider the world as dreamlike | |
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| Investigate the nature of unborn awareness | |
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| Even the antidote itself is liberated in its own place | |
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| Establish the nature of the path in the sphere of the foundation of all | |
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| Between meditation sessions act as an illusory being | |
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| The Cultivation of Relative Bodhichitta | |
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| Alternately practice sending and taking | |
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| Apply those two to the breath | |
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| Three objects, three poisons, three roots of virtue | |
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| In all activities train with words | |
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| The Third Point: Using Unfavorable Circumstances as Aids to Awakening | |
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| When the environment and its inhabitants are enslaved by evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of awakening | |
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| Blame everything on one thing | |
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| Meditate on great kindness toward everyone | |
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| Meditation on the deceptive appearances of the Four Bodies is unsurpassed in guarding emptiness | |
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| The supreme method entails four practices | |
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| Whatever you encounter, immediately apply it to meditation | |
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| The Fourth Point: A Synthesis of Practice for One Life | |
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| To synthesize the essence of this practical guidance, apply yourself to the five powers | |
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| The Mahayana teaching on transferring consciousness is just these precious five powers | |
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| The Fifth Point: The Measure of Having Trained the Mind | |
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| All Dharma is included in one purpose | |
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| Maintain the chief of the two witnesses | |
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| Rely continually on mental happiness alone | |
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| The Sixth Point: The Pledges of Mind Training | |
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| Always practice the three principles | |
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| Transform your desires, but remain as you are | |
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| Speak not of degenerate qualities | |
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| Think nothing about the other side | |
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| Abandon all hope for results | |
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| Abandon poisonous food | |
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| Do not devote yourself kindly to the central object | |
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| Do not laugh at malicious jokes | |
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| Do not wait at the narrow passageway | |
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| Do not load the burden of a dzo on an ox | |
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| Do not direct yourself to the summit of the ascent | |
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| Do not be devious | |
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| Do not let the gods descend to the devil | |
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| Do not seek another's misery as a way to your own happiness | |
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| The Seventh Point: The Practices of Mind Training | |
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| Practice all yogas by means of one | |
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| Counteract all withdrawal by means of one | |
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| There are two actions on two occasions, at the beginning and end | |
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| Whichever of the opposites occurs, be patient | |
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| Guard the two at the cost of your life | |
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| Practice the three austerities | |
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| Acquire the three principal causes | |
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| Cultivate the absence of three degenerations | |
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| Be endowed with the three inseparables | |
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| Always meditate on those who make you boil | |
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| Do not rely on other conditions | |
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| Now practice what is most important | |
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| Do not be contrary | |
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| Do not be erratic | |
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| Practice decisively | |
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| Free yourself by means of investigation and analysis | |
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| Do not be boastful | |
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| Do not bind yourself with hatred | |
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| Do not be fickle | |
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| Do not desire gratitude | |
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| Glossary | |