| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The First Point: The Preliminaries, Which Are Fundamental Dharma | p. 9 |
| First of all, train in the preliminaries | p. 19 |
| The Second Point: The Main Practice: Training in the Bodhichittas | p. 19 |
| The Cultivation of Ultimate Bodhichitta | p. 19 |
| Having attained stability, let the mystery be revealed | p. 19 |
| Consider the world as dreamlike | p. 23 |
| Investigate the nature of unborn awareness | p. 26 |
| Even the antidote itself is liberated in its own place | p. 29 |
| Establish the nature of the path in the sphere of the foundation of all | p. 32 |
| Between meditation sessions act as an illusory being | p. 37 |
| The Cultivation of Relative Bodhichitta | p. 41 |
| Alternately practice sending and taking | p. 41 |
| Apply those two to the breath | p. 52 |
| Three objects, three poisons, three roots of virtue | p. 53 |
| In all activities train with words | p. 54 |
| The Third Point: Using Unfavorable Circumstances as Aids to Awakening | p. 55 |
| When the environment and its inhabitants are enslaved by evil, transform unfavorable circumstances into the path of awakening | p. 55 |
| Blame everything on one thing | p. 59 |
| Meditate on great kindness toward everyone | p. 67 |
| Meditation on the deceptive appearances of the Four Bodies is unsurpassed in guarding emptiness | p. 72 |
| The supreme method entails four practices | p. 74 |
| Whatever you encounter, immediately apply it to meditation | p. 78 |
| The Fourth Point: A Synthesis of Practice for One Life | p. 81 |
| To synthesize the essence of this practical guidance, apply yourself to the five powers | p. 81 |
| The Mahayana teaching on transferring consciousness is just these precious five powers | p. 84 |
| The Fifth Point: The Measure of Having Trained the Mind | p. 89 |
| All Dharma is included in one purpose | p. 89 |
| Maintain the chief of the two witnesses | p. 91 |
| Rely continually on mental happiness alone | p. 92 |
| The Sixth Point: The Pledges of Mind Training | p. 95 |
| Always practice the three principles | p. 96 |
| Transform your desires, but remain as you are | p. 98 |
| Speak not of degenerate qualities | p. 99 |
| Think nothing about the other side | p. 100 |
| Abandon all hope for results | p. 106 |
| Abandon poisonous food | p. 108 |
| Do not devote yourself kindly to the central object | p. 109 |
| Do not laugh at malicious jokes | p. 109 |
| Do not wait at the narrow passageway | p. 110 |
| Do not load the burden of a dzo on an ox | p. 111 |
| Do not direct yourself to the summit of the ascent | p. 111 |
| Do not be devious | p. 112 |
| Do not let the gods descend to the devil | p. 112 |
| Do not seek another's misery as a way to your own happiness | p. 114 |
| The Seventh Point: The Practices of Mind Training | p. 117 |
| Practice all yogas by means of one | p. 118 |
| Counteract all withdrawal by means of one | p. 121 |
| There are two actions on two occasions, at the beginning and end | p. 122 |
| Whichever of the opposites occurs, be patient | p. 125 |
| Guard the two at the cost of your life | p. 126 |
| Practice the three austerities | p. 126 |
| Acquire the three principal causes | p. 128 |
| Cultivate the absence of three degenerations | p. 131 |
| Be endowed with the three inseparables | p. 133 |
| Always meditate on those who make you boil | p. 134 |
| Do not rely on other conditions | p. 135 |
| Now practice what is most important | p. 135 |
| Do not be contrary | p. 137 |
| Do not be erratic | p. 139 |
| Practice decisively | p. 140 |
| Free yourself by means of investigation and analysis | p. 140 |
| Do not be boastful | p. 141 |
| Do not bind yourself with hatred | p. 141 |
| Do not be fickle | p. 142 |
| Do not desire gratitude | p. 142 |
| Glossary | p. 149 |
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