Light Comes Through: Buddhist Teachings on Awakening to Our Natural Intelligence Book

Editor's Preface vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Part 1 The Five Self-Centered Emotions

1 Self-Clinging: The Juice of Self-Centered Emotions 3

2 Guilty as Charged!: A Case against Jealousy 9

3 The Other Side of the Fence: A Case against Aggression 17

4 Invisible Strings: A Case against Attachment 29

5 Entering the Circle of Dogs: A Case against Arrogance 39

6 Connecting Seed and Fruit: A Case against Stupidity 47

Part 2 Working With Others

7 The Lenchak Dynamic: Not a Healthy Kind of Love 55

8 Part of the Equation: No Room for Indifference 65

9 Putting Others in the Center: The Fundamental Principle 69

10 Faith: Opening the Shutters 75

11 Working with a Teacher: Not a One-hand Clap 81

12 Devotion and Lineage: From the Womb of the Mother 89

Part 3 Teachings On Emptiness

13 Mere Appearance: Thinking like an Elephant 97

14 The Haunted Dominion of the Mind: Shaken from Within 103

15 The "Unfindability" of Phenomena: Disassembling Delusion 113

16 Light Comes Through: Potential and Entirety 119

Recommended Reading 123

Mangala Shri Bhuti Centers 125