288 pages

According to His Holiness the Dalai Lama, we each possess the ability to achieve happiness and a meaningful life, but the key to realizing that goal is self-knowledge. In How to See Yourself As You Really Are, the world's foremost Buddhist leader and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize shows readers how to recognize and dispel misguided notions of self and embrace the world from a more realistic - and loving - perspective.

Through illuminating explanations and step-by-step exercises, His Holiness helps readers to see the world as it actually exists, and explains how, through the interconnection of meditative concentration and love, true altruistic enlightenment is attained.

Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts of the Dalai Lama's own life experiences, How to See Yourself As You Really Are is an inspirational and empowering guide that can be read and enjoyed by anyone seeking spiritual fulfillment.

    (from the Foreword, in PDF format)

Table of Contents:
Foreword     9
Introduction: My Perspective     13
The Need for Insight     37
Laying the Ground for Insight to Grow     39
Discovering the Source of Problems     44
Why Understanding the Truth Is Needed     51
How to Undermine Ignorance     59
Feeling the Impact of Interrelatedness     61
Appreciating the Reasoning of Dependent-Arising     72
Seeing the Interdependence of Phenomena     79
Valuing Dependent-Arising and Emptiness     86
Harnessing the Power of Concentration and Insight     97
Focusing Your Mind     99
Tuning Your Mind for Meditation     115
How to End Self-Deception     133
Meditating on Yourself First     135
Realizing That You Do Not Exist in and of Yourself     138
Determining the Choices     149
Analyzing Oneness     152
Analyzing Difference     158
Coming to a Conclusion     161
Testing Your Realization     170
Extending This Insight to What You Own     178
Balancing Calm and Insight     181
How Persons and Things Actually Exist     187
Viewing Yourself As Like an Illusion     189
Noticing How Everything Depends on Thought     199
Deepening Love with Insight     213
Feeling Empathy     215
Reflecting on Impermanence     224
Absorbing Yourself in Ultimate Love     238
Reviewing The Meditative Reflections     253
Selected Readings     295

About the author:
Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness, the fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet, is the spiritual and temporal leader of the Tibetan people. His tireless efforts on behalf of human rights and world peace have brought him international recognition. He is a recipient of the Wallenberg Award (conferred by the US Congressional Human Rights Foundation), the Albert Schweitzer Award, and the Nobel Peace Prize (1989). He was born Lhamo Dhondrub on 6 July 1935, in a small village called Taktser in northeastern Tibet. Born to a peasant family, His Holiness was recognized at the age of two, in accordance with Tibetan tradition, as the reincarnation of his predecessor the 13th Dalai Lama, and thus an incarnation Avalokitesvara, the Buddha of Compassion. He began his education at the age of six and completed the Geshe Lharampa Degree (Doctorate of Buddhist Philosophy) when he was 25 in 1959. He assumed political power and won worldwide praise for his devotion to a non-violent liberation of Tibet. His Holiness follows the life of Buddhist monk, in his small cottage in Dharamsala, India. He rises at 4am to meditate, before attending administrative meetings, private audiences and religious teachings and ceremonies. He has written many books on Buddhism.