The Index Page provides an outline of the topics discussed in each of the lectures. 

Lecture One: November 30, 1994

• Refuge
• Generating bodhicitta
• The kindness of mother sentient beings
• The rarity of this precious human rebirth
• The importance of morality
• What is nonvirtuous?
• Fearlessness at the time of death
• The time of death is uncertain
• We can’t prove there are no past or future lives
• We can have faith in the Buddha’s words
• Only two ways to go after death—practice morality
• Labeling phenomena
• Mind training: Our enemy is our best friend
• The merely-labeled I

Lecture Two: December 2, 1994

• The emptiness of time
• The power and benefits of bodhicitta
• Develop familiarity with the whole path in every meditation
• Effortful experience and effortless experience
• Training on the lower scope
• Training on the medium scope
• Training on the great scope
• Training on the tantric path

Lecture Three: December 3, 1994

• The purpose of life
• The four harmonious brothers
• Actualizing the path depends on all three scopes
• The various vows
• The importance of morality
• With powerful objects, we experience the result in this life
• The need to practice Dharma between sessions
• Dedication

Lecture Four: December 3, 1994

• The merit of living in vows
• Karma: Without the cause the result cannot be experienced
• Two solutions to problems: Purification and creating positive karma
• A good intention is the most important thing
• Liberation needs refuge in all three Jewels
• Precepts ceremony motivation
• Precepts ceremony
• The hallucinating mind
• The buddhas return as gurus in degenerate times
• Integrating the lamrim in daily life
• Guru devotion: The hallucinated mind sees the guru as ordinary
• The guru is one with the buddhas
• The absolute guru is the dharmakaya
• Think on the kindness of the guru
• Seeing the guru as Buddha is the core of guru devotion
• Doing practices based on guru devotion
• Refuge practice with the guru and offering bath practice
• The oral transmission of the lamrim prayer: Motivation
• Dedication

Lecture Five: December 4, 1994

• Bodhicitta is the main trunk of the Dharma tree
• Actions without a lamrim motivation become the cause of suffering
• Saying the Tara prayer with four different motivations
• Emptiness: Shopping with emptiness
• The base and the label
• Emptiness: We see things as truly existing due to past imprints

Lecture Six: December 4, 1994

• Medicine Buddha: Why the practice is so powerful
• The Medicine Buddha: The power of the mantra
• The Medicine Buddha initiation
• With the perfect human rebirth we can achieve the three great meanings
• Doing everything with renunciation and bodhicitta
• The Dharma saves us from the lower realms
• Medicine Buddha initiation motivation: The kindness of the mother
• Medicine Buddha initiation motivation: All beings have been kind to us in four ways
• Medicine Buddha initiation
• Dedication: There is no better healing than the lamrim