- I: The mode
of Relying on a Spiritual Master, the
foundation of the path.
- Reliance
through thought.
- Cultivating faith, the
root factor.
- Cultivating respect
through recollecting kindness.
- Reliance
through action.
- II: The
stages of training based on such a reliance.
- Persuading
to Take the Essence of a Fully Endowed
Human Existence.
- Reflecting on the great
value of leisure and fortune.
- Reflecting on its rarity.
- The
manner in which to actually take the essence.
- Training the mind in the
stages of path common to the
practitioners of initial capacity.
- Meditating on Death
Awareness.
- Reflecting on the Sufferings
of Lower Realms.
- Taking Refuge
in the Three Jewels.
- Generating
conviction in the Karmic
Laws.
- Training the mind in the
stages of path common to those of middle
capacity.
- Generating the
aspiration to Achieve
Liberation from Cyclic Existence..
- Reflecting
on the suffering of
cyclic existence in
general.
- Reflecting
on the specific
sufferings of individual
realms.
- Presentation of
the nature of the paths leading
to liberation.
- Training the mind in the
stages of path common to those of great
capacity.
- The mode of Cultivating
Bodhichitta (mind of
enlightenment).
- The
actual generation of the
mind.
- Generating
bodhichitta through the
instruction of
seven-point cause and
effect.
- Meditation
on equanimity.
- The
seven points.
- Recognition
that all beings as having
been one's mother.
- Recollection
of their kindness.
- Repaying
the kindness.
- Loving
kindness.
- Great
compassion.
- Superior
attitude.
- Bodhichitta.
- Generating
bodhichitta through the
instruction on equality
and exchange of oneself
with others.
- Reinforcing
the generated altruistic
mind through ceremony.
- The
way in which the vows are
received.
- How
to protect the vows from
degeneration.
- The mode of
engaging in the deeds following
the generation of the altruistic
mind.
- Training
in the bodhisattva deeds
in general.
- Generosity.
- Morality.
- Patience.
- Joyous
effort.
- Concentration.
- Wisdom.
- The
four ripening factors.
- Training
in the last two
perfections in
particular.
- Training
in calm abiding, the
essence of concentration.
- Training
in Special
Insight, the Essence of
Wisdom (wisdom realizing
emptiness)..
- On
the selflessness of
persons.
- On
the selflessness of
phenomena.
- On
non-inherent existence of
compounded phenomena.
- On
non-inherent existence of
uncompounded phenomena.
Source:
HH Dalai Lama, Path to Bliss (Snow Lion)
