The Nobel Peace Prize-nominated Buddhist teacher and author of Moments of Mindfulness presents an accessible introduction to Buddhist psychology that focuses on the true nature of consciousness and the sources of human suffering, happiness, and peace. Reprint. Introduction by Reb Anderson 9(2) Welcome 11(2) Fifty Verses on the Nature of Consciousness 13(10) PART I. Store Consciousness 23(68) 1. The Mind Is a Field 25(1) 2. Every Kind of Seed 26(5) 3. Nothing Is Lost 31(3) 4. Transmission 34(5) 5. Individual and Collective Seeds 39(6) 6. The Quality of the Seeds 45(4) 7. Habit Energies 49(4) 8. Fields of Perception 53(5) 9. Ripening and Emancipation 58(11) 10. The Five Universals 69(3) 11. The Three Dharma Seals 72(6) 12. Seeds and Formations 78(3) 13. Indra's Net 81(3) 14. True and Not True 84(3) 15. Great Mirror Wisdom 87(4) PART II. Manas 91(30) 16. Seeds of Delusion 93(3) 17. Mentation 96(4) 18. The Mark of a Self 100(5) 19. Discrimination 105(4) 20. Companions of Manas 109(4) 21. Shadow Follows Form 113(2) 22. Release 115(6) PART III. Mind Consciousness 121(24) 23. Sphere of Cognition 123(2) 24. Perception 125(10) 25. The Gardener 135(3) 26. Non-Perception 138(3) 27. States of Mind 141(4) PART IV. Sense Consciousnesses 145(12) 28. Waves upon the Water 147(3) 29. Direct Perception 150(4) 30. Mental Formations 154(3) PART V. The Nature of Reality 157(40) 31. Subject and Object 159(7) 32, Perceiver, Perceived, and Wholeness 166(4) 33. Birth and Death 170(3) 34. Continuous Manifestation 173(6) 35. Consciousness 179(4) 36. No Coming No Going 183(3) 37. Causes 186(2) 38. Conditions 188(2) 39. True Mind 190(5) 40. The Realm of Suchness 195(2) PART VI. The Path of Practice 197(50) 41. The Way to Practice 199(8) 42. Flower and Garbage 207(3) 43. Interbeing 210(3) 44. Right View 213(4) 45. Mindfulness 217(5) 46. Transformation at the Base 222(7) 47. The Present Moment 229(7) 48. Sangha 236(5) 49. Nothing to Attain 241(4) 50. No Fear 245(2) AFTERWORD The Sources of the Fifty Verses 247