Completing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining various meanings of equality of samsara and nirvana and how clear light mind is understood according to sutra and tantra vehicles.

How the cause of problems and pain is not the objects of attachment themselves, but the mind of attachment or desire.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, explaining how it it is possible to develop positive mental states limitlessly and why afflictive mental states are not in the nature of the mind.

Commentary on Shantideva's verses that point out the disadvantages of samsara, in order to develop a strong mind that strives for liberation.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 12, describing three reasons that make liberation possible

Shantideva's verses describe the lengths we go to obtain wealth, sex, and possessions, and the suffering this ultimately brings.

Completing teaching Chapter 11, "Freedom From Cyclic Existence" and commencing Chapter 12, "Mind and Its Potential".

Commentary on verses that help to see the body more objectively in order to counter the distraction of attachment which interferes with meditation.

Continuing teaching from Chapter 11, explaining nirvana as the object of meditation.

To counter desire for the body, Shantideva gives us verses to pull back the veil of exaggeration to see the body's real nature.