How to See Yourself As You Really Are

Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts, His Holiness provides step-by-step exercises to help readers shatter their false assumptions and ideas of the self and see the world as it actually exists, which is a prelude to right action. The Need For Insight -- Laying The Ground For Insight To Grow -- Discovering The Source Of Problems -- Why Understanding The Truth Is Needed -- How To Undermine Ignorance -- Feeling The Impact Of Interrelatedness -- Appreciating The Reasoning Of Dependent-arising -- Seeing The Interdependence Of Phenomena -- Valuing Dependent-arising And Emptiness -- Harnessing The Power Of Concentration And Insight -- Focusing Your Mind -- Tuning Your Mind For Meditation -- How To End Self-deception -- Meditating On Yourself First -- Realizing That You Do Not Exist In And Of Yourself -- Determining The Choices -- Analyzing Oneness -- Analyzing Difference -- Coming To A Conclusion -- Testing Your Realization -- Extending This Insight To What You Own -- Balancing Calm And Insight -- How Persons And Things Actually Exist -- Viewing Yourself As Like An Illusion -- Noticing How Everything Depends On Thought -- Deepening Love With Insight -- Feeling Empathy -- Reflecting On Impermanence -- Absorbing Yourself In Ultimate Love -- Appendix: Reviewing The Meditative Reflections. His Holiness The Dalai Lama ; Translated And Edited By Jeffrey Hopkins. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 273-274). Self-knowledge is the key to personal development and positive relationships. In How to See Yourself As You Really Are, His Holiness the Dalai Lama offers a practical path to self-knowledge.