You Are the Eyes of the World

Just as the images on television are nothing more than light, so are our experiences merely the dance of awareness.

Kennard Lipman, Ph.D., studied at the University of Chicago and at U.C. Berkeley, completing his doctorate under Dr. H.V. Guenther. He received teachings from masters in all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism, his principal teacher being Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. Merrill Peterson studied at the University of Virginia and U.C. Berkeley, as well as with masters from the Sakya, Gelug, and Nyingma traditions.

Preface	p. xi
Textual Introduction	p. 1
The kun byed rgyal po	p. 1
Sutra, Tantra, and Agama	p. 2
Longchenpa's Guide	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
The Spiritual Quest	p. 11
Overview of the Text	p. 13
How to Read the Text	p. 16
The Jewel Ship	p. 17
Anthem	p. 19
Preface	p. 19
Introduction	p. 20
List of Subjects	p. 23
The Spiritual Advisor	p. 24
The Student	p. 25
The Teaching	p. 26
The Spiritual Heritage	p. 27
The Main Subject Matter	p. 29
Guruyoga	p. 29
The Visualization and Guruyoga	p. 29
The Real Subject Matter	p. 31
Becoming Certain through the Perspective	p. 32
The Play of Experience	p. 32
Experience is Open-Dimensional	p. 34
Accustoming Yourself to the Perspective	p. 35
The Way of Life	p. 40
The Intrinsic Freedom of the Passions	p. 40
The Way of Living which Masters Appearances	p. 42
Making Your Free Behavior the Path	p. 44
The Result: Abandonment of Hope and Fear	p. 47
How to Integrate Experiences after Meditation	p. 50
Reserving the Teaching by Not Broadcasting It	p. 53
Epilogue	p. 53
Postscript	p. 54
Concluding Thoughts	p. 54
Colophon	p. 55
Commentary	p. 57
Self-knowledge	p. 57
Being True to Yourself	p. 62
Different Paths	p. 65
Renunciation and Transformation	p. 66
Intrinsic Freedom	p. 69
Appendices	p. 79
The History and Structure of the kun byed rgyal po	p. 79
Quotations from the Root Text	p. 89
Glossary	p. 91
Further Readings	p. 95
Index	p. 99
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