The Three Levels of Spiritual Perception: An Oral Commentary on The Three Visions (Nang Sum) of Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub

Contents
List of Photographs
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Introduction: The Tradition
PART I : THE PRELIMINARIES
1   A Priceless Jewel in a Garbage Heap
2   Reveling in the Wine of Bliss
3   First Things First and Last Things Last
4   Climbing a Steep Ladder without Hands
5   The Umbrella of Refuge
6   Holding Fast until Enlightenment Is Won
7   Suppose You Own a Fine  Horse
8   The Needle Point of Worldly Existence
9   Sheer Pain
PART II : THE MAIN TEACHING
10  The Forest of Swords
11  Ignoble Stinginess
12  From  Celestial Mansions to Murky Depths
13  No Rest from the Dance
14  A Fish  Cast Up on  Hot
15  Careless Craving
16  Ceaseless Roaming
17  Imagine a Blind Tortoise
18  A Lump of Charcoal and a White  Conch
19  Just Somebody Dressed in  Red
20  The Great Fisher
21  Discarded in Some Dark Hole
22  A Protector
23  Deeds
24  A Great Vessel Filled by Drops  of Water
25  Black Pebbles and White Pebbles
26  As Helpless As a Worm
27  Giving Our Parents a Piggyback Ride
28  A Mind Like an  Overturned Pot
29  The Flavor of Compassion
30  Rudderless on the Sea of Life
31  A Coiled Rope in the Gloom of Night
32  "Beloved Daughter" Kicks His Mother
33  The Hand Must Help the Foot
34  A Cloud of White Light or a Sudden Dawn
35  Turning the Wheel of the Rat Race
36  Doing What Bodhisattvas Do
37  A Protector of the Protectorless
38  Seeing Things Exactly as They Are
39  Insight Yoked with Calm
40  Pouring Water into a Vase with a Hole in It
41  A Four-Petaled Blue Flower
42  The Monkeys Were Perplexed
43  The Flame of a Lamp  in a Windless  Place
44  A Storm of Thought Processes
45  Ten Million Blind Men
46  Rebirth as a Woodchuck
47  Safmsara Falls Apart Like a Tattered Rag
48  If You Think of Yourself as a Tiger
49  It Is "Natural" Not to Be Natural
50  Paying the Tax of Compulsiveness
51  Awakening Certitude
52  Tasting Sugarcane for the First Time
53  A Chamberpot
54  The Dreaming Mind Deludes Itself
55  Tuning the Violin of Meditation
56  The Sharpness of a Thorn
Outline of the Text
Notes   497
Bibliography    51 1
Glossary of Tibetan Names and Terms
Index