The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. Note that as this is a transcript from audio tape, there are some comments related to the tapes within the transcript.

Contents

Lecture One: Refuge and Bodhicitta

• Integrating practice
• Refuge
• Bodhicitta motivation
• Highest happiness
• Benefits of reciting Guru Shakyamuni Buddha's name and mantra

 Lecture Two: Cherishing Others

• Seven techniques of Mahayana cause and effect
• Shortcomings of the self-cherishing mind 
• Benefits of cherishing others
• Exchanging self for others
• Immeasurable equanimity
• Stop disliking problems
• Motivation for precepts
• The kindness of others

Lecture Three: The Good Heart

• Practicing and not practicing the good heart
• Benefits of taking vows
• Universal responsibility
• How to regard the enemy
• Karmic appearance

Lecture Four: Labeling the I

• How to regard the enemy
• Everything comes from the mind
• Compassion for the enemy
• Labeling the I
• Labeling "David", "I", "Lama Zopa"
• Ignorance of true existence
• Suffering nature of human, animal bodies
• Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM

Lecture Five: The Merely Labeled I

• Labeling
• Meditating on the Heart Sutra
• Labeling president, fire
• Labeling on the base
• Merely labeled I
• Real I
• Awareness of emptiness and Dharma in daily life

Lecture Six: Labeling Appearances

• Equalizing the eight worldly dharmas
• Labeling friend and enemy
• A Tibetan monk
• Things in the supermarket, toilet paper
• Mind is creator
• Awareness that everything is merely labeled 

Lecture Seven: The Eight Mahayana Precepts

• Benefits of the eight Mahayaya precepts
• Subduing the mind

Lecture Eight: The Benefits of Precepts

• Benefits of precepts
• Four suffering results
• Perfect human rebirth
• Abandoning desire

Lecture Nine: Emptiness of the I

• How the I exists
• I is emptiness (shunyata)
• Delusions are dependent arising
• How to control delusions
• Emptiness is I

Lecture Ten: Equilibrium Meditation

• Great equanimity: three reasons from side of others; three reasons from side of self
• Kindness of the enemy
• Equanimity
• Vajrapani-Hayagriva-Garuda

Lecture Eleven: Equanimity

• Equanimity
• Nothing is definite in samsara
• Dependent arising of here and there, I and others, friend and enemy
• Trouble in Tibet
• Importance of His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Lecture Twelve: The Cause of Happiness

• Free will and karma
• Desire and happiness
• Nature of the mind, of phenomena
• Emptiness of tea
• Lung of Manjushri praise and mantra
• Meditation: how the I exists
• The I is empty; emptiness is the I
• Walking meditation

Lecture Thirteen: The Bodhisattva Vows (Lama Lhundrup)

• The eighteen root bodhisattva vows

Lecture Fourteen: Samsara and the Twelve Links

• The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
• The four noble truths
• Enlightenment
• Making the decision
• Twelve links: ignorance, farmer, field etc
• Importance of realizing emptiness

Lecture Fifteen: Refuge

• Refuge
• Reincarnation
• Preparing to meditate on the lam-rim
• Importance of the lam-rim
• Kadampa geshes
• Lamrim prayer: The Foundation of All Good Qualities

Lecture Sixteen: The Suffering of Samsara

• How we enter samsara
• True suffering
• Karma and disturbing thoughts
• Attachment

Lecture Seventeen: The Five Views

• Nature of attachment, anger, ignorance, doubt, pride
• Five views
• Everything comes from the mind
• Lungs: Medicine Buddha, Tara, Samayavajra

Lecture Eighteen: How to Practice Dharma

• The Heart Sutra
• Q&A: emptiness, death process, location of emotions, death process
• Causes of delusion: imprint, object, distraction, explanation, habit, inappropriate attention
• Death and dying
• Intermediate state
• Wheel of Life
• Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
• Impermanence-death
• Daily practice
• Dedications