The Heart of Meditation Discovering Innermost Awareness

The Heart of Meditation Discovering Innermost Awareness

The book is structured in four parts. In the first, the Dalai Lama provides the context of the extraordinarily direct instructions of the poem by fleshing out the advice given at its end to train in empathy for all beings and in knowledge of the nature of all phenomena persons and objects. In the second, he introduces the system of the Great Completeness and identifies innermost awareness as the fundamental principle common to all orders of Tibetan Buddhism. In the third, he comments on the inspired poem, opening up its meaning by expanding on the three keys that are its essential message - how to identify innermost awareness within yourself, how to maintain contact with innermost awareness in all states, and how to release yourself from too much thought. In the fourth, he provides more explanation about special spiritual topics.