The Path to Awakening : A Commentary on Ja Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points of Mind Training Book

Contents: List of illustrations. Translator’s introduction. A note on transliteration. 1. The Buddha’s teachings: an introduction. 2. Root text. 3. Homage to the great compassionate one! 4. Learn the preliminaries. 5. Train in the two Bodhicittas. 6. Convert adversities into the path of awakening. 7. Implement mind training in this life. 8. The measure of mind training. 9. Commitments of mind training. 10. Advice for mind training. Conclusion. Final remarks. Glossary. Bibliography. Index.

"Mind training is a comprehensive practice that is suitable for all types of students. It contains the entire path and does not depend one person’s background. Mind training nurses and cultivates the Buddha nature, that pure seed of awakening that is at the very heart of every sentient being. It has the power to transform even egotistical self-clinging into self-lessness. Put into practice diligently, it is enough to lead you all the way to awakening.

In The Path to Awakening, Shamar Rinpoche gives his own detailed commentary on Chekawa YeshE DorjE’s Seven Points of Mind Training, a text that has been used as a basis for transformative practice in Tibetan Buddhism for close to a thousand years. Clear, accessible, and yet profound, this book is filled with practical wisdom, philosophy and meditation instructions." (jacket)