Publisher's Acknowledgements and Reader Feedback

Editor's Preface

1. Discovering the Meaning of Dharma

2. The Eight Worldly Dharmas

• The dissatisfied mind of desire
• The definition of the eight worldly dharmas
• The eight worldly dharmas
• Meditation 

3. The Nature of Samsara

• The cow on the precipice
• Samsara is suffering
• Meditation

4. Seeking Happiness, Getting Suffering

• Samsaric methods don’t work
• Relying on the unreliable 
• Meditation 

5. The Problems Desire Brings

• Seeking happiness, we create negative karma
• Harming others with our own needs 
• Dying with a needy mind 
• Meditation 

6. Mixing Worldly and Holy Dharma

• Dharma practice is impossible with the eight worldly dharmas
• Retreating with the eight worldly dharmas 
• The three types of eight worldly dharmas  
• Meditations 

7. How Worldly Dharma and Holy Dharma Differ

• The importance of knowing what Dharma is
• The difference between the eight worldly dharmas and Dharma 
• The importance of motivation 
• Meditation 

8. Turning Away from Worldly Concern

• Happiness comes when we renounce the eight worldly dharmas
• Happiness starts when we renounce this life  
• The power of renouncing the eight worldly dharmas  
• Equalizing the eight worldly dharmas 
• Meditations 

9. Practicing Pure Dharma  

• The ten innermost jewels
• Pure Dharma not mouth Dharma 

Appendix: The Ten Innermost Jewels of the Kadampa Geshes

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