Before going on, here is the whole road at a glance. Come back to this page whenever you lose the thread, and you will know where you are.
Asleep
First you learn to see the state you are in: how attention wanders, how habits run the day, how many different selves speak with your voice.
The enemy within
Then you meet those selves one by one, anger, pride, fear and the rest, and learn the old method for ending them.
The energy
You learn what drains you and what fills you, and the practices that keep the body’s finest energy instead of spending it.
The other half of life
A third of your life is spent asleep. You learn to remember it, and then to wake up inside it.
The one who lives in you
Behind all of this is something in you that has never been asleep. You learn how the tradition speaks of it, and how to sit still enough to feel it.
Giving
Nobody wakes up for themselves alone. The path includes what you do for others.
Living it
At the end it all becomes one ordinary day: morning, work, evening and night.
Ending what is false, giving birth to what is true, and giving to others are what the tradition calls the three factors. Everything in this book serves one of them.