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|TableOfContents=* {{i| Introduction | 1 |}}
* {{i| An Overview | 2 |}}
* {{i| The Origins of this Book | 4 |}}
* {{i| A Note on Terminology | 5 |}}
* {{i| Appreciation | 6 |}}

* {{i| '''1. THE BENEFITS OF LEARNING ABOUT AND MEDITATING ON EMPTINESS''' | 7 |}}
** {{i| Motivation | 7  |}}
** {{i| The Sources of This Teaching | 8  |}}
** {{i| The Benefits in General | 9  |}}
** {{i| Admiration for the Profound | 9  |}}
** {{i| The Three Doors of Liberation | 11  |}}
** {{i| Benefits According to the Sutras | 12  |}}

* {{i| '''2. WHY REALIZING EMPTINESS IS IMPORTANT''' | 17  |}}
** {{i| Background | 17  |}}
** {{i| Taking Refuge | 18  |}}
** {{i| Cyclic Existence: The Five Aggregates and Six Realms | 21  |}}
** {{i| Ignorance, Afflictions, Karma, and Liberation	| 23  |}}
** {{i| Renouncing Duhkha and Its Causes | 25  |}}
** {{i| The Root of Cyclic Existence | 28  |}}
** {{i| The Four Noble Truths | 29  |}}

* {{i| '''3. ENTHUSIASM FOR EMPTINESS''' | 33  |}}
** {{i| Understanding Emptiness Is Crucial | 33  |}}
** {{i| The Danger of Misunderstanding Emptiness | 36  |}}
** {{i| Doubt Inclined Toward Emptiness | 38  |}}
** {{i| The Power of Realizing Emptiness | 39  |}}
** {{i| More than One Way to Practice | 41  |}}
** {{i| Confidence | 42  |}}

* {{i| '''4. LOOKING AT THE LANDSCAPE''' | 45  |}}
** {{i| The Four Seals | 45  |}}
** {{i| Aryadeva's Advice | 47  |}}
** {{i| An Overview of the Levels of Selflessness | 49  |}}
** {{i| The Buddha as a Skillful Teacher | 51  |}}
** {{i| The Value of Reasoning | 53  |}}
** {{i| Emptiness Is an Obscure Phenomenon | 54  |}}

* {{i| '''5. WHAT IS A PERSON?''' | 57  |}}
** {{i| The Person | 57  |}}
** {{i| Persons and Phenomena | 58  |}} 
** {{i| The Five Aggregates | 59  |}}
** {{i| The Continuity of Consciousness | 62  |}}
** {{i| Who Is Joe? | 63  |}}
** {{i| No Permanent, Unitary, and Independent Self | 63  |}}
** {{i| Impermanence: Coarse and Subtle | 65  |}}
** {{i| The Meaning of "Unitary" and "Independent" | 68  |}}
** {{i| The Lack of a Self-Sufficient, Substantially Existent Person | 70  |}}

* {{i| '''6. SEARCHING FOR THE PERSON''' | 73  |}}
** {{i| The Basis of Designation and the Designated Object | 73  |}}
** {{i| An Inherently Existent Person Can't Be Found | 74  |}}
** {{i| The Illustration of the Person | 76  |}}
** {{i| The Illustration of the Person, the Mere I, and the Continuity of Mental Consciousness | 80  |}}
** {{i| The General I and the Specific I | 82  |}}

* {{i| '''7. INVESTIGATING THE I'''	| 85  |}}
** {{i| Ignorance and Wisdom | 85  |}}
** {{i| The Valid I-Apprehending Mind and the Erroneous I-Grasping Mind | 86  |}}
** {{i| Valid and Mistaken, but Not Erroneous | 89  |}}
** {{i| The Self that Exists and the Self that Doesn't | 91  |}}
** {{i| Independence and Imputation | 93  |}}

* {{i| '''8. EXPLORING SELFLESSNESS''' | 97  |}}
** {{i| Selflessness in the Four Schools | 97 |}}
** {{i| The Two Middle Way Schools | 99  |}}
** {{i| Mere Imputation Without the Slightest Existence from Its Own Side | 103  |}}
** {{i| Mere Name | 108  |}}

* {{i| '''9. IMPUTED AND EMPTY''' | 111  |}}
** {{i| What Is This Fluid? | 111  |}}
** {{i| Not Findable, but Existent | 113  |}}
** {{i| Searching for the Cart | 115  |}}
** {{i| Appearing When Not Analyzed, Unfindable When Analyzed	| 117  |}}
** {{i| How to Learn about Emptiness | 118  |}}

* {{i| '''10. ENLIGHTENMENT IS POSSIBLE'''	 | 121  |}}
** {{i| All Sentient Beings Can Attain Enlightenment | 121  |}}
** {{i| Adventitious Stains Can Be Eliminated | 122  |}}
** {{i| Inconceivable and Inexpressible | 124  |}}
** {{i| Combining Bodhichitta and Wisdom | 125  |}}

* {{i| '''11. EASING INTO EMPTINESS''' | 127  |}}
** {{i| A Review: How Ignorance Arises and Produces Afflictions | 127  |}}
** {{i| The Sequence for Meditating on Selflessness | 130  |}}
** {{i| Three Modes of Apprehending Phenomena | 132  |}}
** {{i| Dependent Arising Contradicts Inherent Existence | 134  |}}

* {{i| '''12. DEPENDENT ARISING''' | 139  |}}
** {{i| Nagarjuna's View | 139  |}}
** {{i| The King of Reasonings | 140  |}}
** {{i| Dependence on Causes and Conditions | 141  |}}
** {{i| Dependence on Parts | 143  |}}
** {{i| No Partless Particles | 143  |}}
** {{i| Dependent Designation | 144  |}}
** {{i| Mutual or Relational Dependence | 145  |}} 
** {{i| Dependence on Imputation by Name and Concept | 147  |}}
** {{i| All Phenomena Depend on Mere Imputation | 148  |}}
** {{i| Emptiness and Dependent Arising | 150  |}}
** {{i| The Compatibility of Being Dependent and Empty	| 152  |}}
** {{i| Is There a Choice?	| 153  |}}

* {{i| '''13. THE FOUR ESSENTIAL POINTS''' | 155  |}}
** {{i| Meditation on the Four Essential Points	| 155  |}}
** {{i| The First Essential Point: Identifying the Object of Negation	| 156  |}}
** {{i| The Second Essential Point: The Pervasion | 159  |}}
** {{i| One and Different | 160  |}}
** {{i| The Third Essential Point: Are I and the Aggregates Inseparably One and the Same?	| 163  |}}
** {{i| The Fourth Essential Point: Are the I and the Aggregates Totally Unrelated? | 169  |}}
** {{i| Expanding the Analysis | 170  |}}
** {{i| The Correct Conclusion | 171  |}}
** {{i| When to Reflect on Dependent Arising | 172  |}}

* {{i| '''14. HOW THINGS ARISE: REFUTING THE FOUR EXTREMES''' | 175  |}}
** {{i| Not Arising from Self | 175  |}}
** {{i| Not Arising from Other | 177  |}}
** {{i| Not Arising from Both | 181  |}}
** {{i| Not Arising Causelessly | 181  |}}
** {{i| Summary of the Four Extremes | 183  |}}

* {{i| '''15. EVER-DEEPENING UNDERSTANDINGS OF SELFLESSNESS''' | 185  |}}
** {{i| The Three Turnings of the Dharma Wheel | 185  |}}
** {{i| The Chittamatra Perspective | 186  |}}
** {{i| Subtler Meanings Revealed in the Three Turnings | 189  |}}
** {{i| The Four Reliances | 190  |}}
** {{i| Ever-Deepening Levels of Selflessness | 191  |}}
** {{i| Deepening Understanding of Dependent Arising | 195  |}}
** {{i| Phenomena Are Self-Liberated | 197  |}}
** {{i| Self-Emptiness and Other-Emptiness | 198  |}}

* {{i| '''16.  APPEARANCES''' | 203  |}}
** {{i| Things Do Not Exist as They Appear | 203  |}}
** {{i| True and False | 204  |}}
** {{i| Minds and Their Objects| 206  |}}
** {{i| Analogies | 211  |}}
** {{i| Realizing It Does Not Exist as It Appears | 212  |}}
** {{i| Real and Unreal | 213  |}}
** {{i| Inferential and Direct Realization of Emptiness | 215  |}}
** {{i| Two Levels of Mistaken Appearance | 216  |}}

* {{i| '''17. REFINING OUR UNDERSTANDING OF EMPTINESS''' | 219  |}}
** {{i| Similes Showing the Five Aggregates Are Empty | 219  |}}
** {{i| The Refutation of One and Many | 222  |}}
** {{i| Perception is Not Truly Existent | 223  |}}
** {{i| Nothing to Remove, Nothing to Add | 224  |}}
** {{i| Avoiding the Views of Nihilism and Absolutism | 225  |}}
** {{i| Abandon Meditating on the Nonexistence of Anything At All	| 227  |}}

* {{i| '''18. THE TWO TRUTHS''' | 231  |}}
** {{i| Basis, Path, and Result | 231  |}}
** {{i| The Two Truths | 232  |}}
** {{i| Conventional Truths | 234  |}}
** {{i| Ultimate Truths | 235  |}}
** {{i| Same Nature, Nominally Different | 236  |}}
** {{i| Truth and Truly Existent	| 240  |}}
** {{i| Conventional and Ultimate | 241  |}}

* {{i| '''19. SIMILES FROM THE DIAMOND CUTTER SUTRA - PART I'''	|243  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of Star | 244  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Visual Aberration | 246  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of the Flame of a Lamp | 249  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of an Illusion | 250  |}}

* {{i| '''20. SIMILES FROM THE DIAMOND CUTTER SUTRA - PART II'''  | 255  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Dewdrop | 255  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Water Bubble | 256  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Dream | 257  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Flash of Lightening | 258  |}}
** {{i| The Simile of a Cloud | 259  |}}
** {{i| Conclusion: See Conditioned Phenomena as Such | 261  |}}

* {{i| '''21. HOW FORTUNATE!	''' | 263  |}}
** {{i| Meditating on Emptiness Is Crucial for Liberation | 264  |}}
** {{i| Powerful Purification | 268  |}}

* {{i| Notes | 271  |}}
* {{i| More Reading | 275  |}}
* {{i| Index | 277  |}}
* {{i| Bibliographies	| 281  |}}
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|TextTopics=Vajracchedikāprajñāpāramitāsūtra
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