The Dalai Lama describes the twelve links of dependency on the Wheel of Life, how humankind has become trapped in a prison of suffering and selfishness, and how to turn one's prison into a source of help and happiness for others.
TOC:
- Introduction by Jeffrey Hopkins
- The Meaning of Life: the lectures
- 1. The Buddhist worldview
- 2. Life impelled by ignorance
- 3. Levels of the path
- 4. The value of altruism
- 5. Compassion and wisdom combined