Contents

Foreword by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
About the Author by Dungse Thinley Norbu Rinpoche
Translator’s Note
Preface
Translator’s Introduction
Introduction

The Great Secret of Mind

1. THE VIEW
   1.1 The nature of the physical world
   1.2 The difference between “insider” and “outsider” meditation
   1.3 The fallacy of materialism: how the actuality contradicts our assumption
   that our happiness and sadness depend upon material things
   1.4 The unreality of material things
   1.5 All things are figments of the mind
   1.6 How this body emerges from the karmically conditioned mind, and how
   we may anticipate the next life
   1.7 Distinguishing between impure outer appearances and the pure nature of
   reality
   1.8 All phenomena are unreal: all is just a delusive display of mind
   1.9 The method of eliminating belief in concrete reality, the cause of suffering
   1.10 The ways of establishing the unreal world as magical illusion in the
   different levels of approach
   1.11 People ignorant of the illusory nature of their own unreal mind spin
   around in confusion
   1.12 Pure presence itself is buddha
   1.13 Illustrating the similarity of the world and magical illusion
   1.14 The conviction that all is unreal accords with the sutras
   1.15 An introduction to the secret of mind
   1.16 The dualistic nature of the intellect illustrated in the question-answer
   method of the sutras
   1.17 Reasonable proof that buddha-nature exists in our mindstream
   1.18 When the natural perfection of mind is realized, there is no need to apply
   an appropriate antidote to each karmic impulse
   1.19 Reconciliation of the view that the world is an empty, unreal, subjective
   delusion with the scientific view that it is composed of atoms
   1.20 Sickness and physical pain are relieved by making a habit of recognizing
   pure empty presence
   1.21 Mind is the root of all experience
   1.22 Knowing the whole world as figments of mind, undisturbed at the time