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● Dedication _ 03

● Introduction _ 04

● The Events That Have Formed My Life _ 11
- A Life Force Comes into Its Own When Flexible _ 12
- The Peace of Warm Water _ 13
- Emotions Can Disappear in an Instant _ 15
- Go Beyond the Pain of the Mind _ 17
- The Experience of I and the World Disappearing _ 21
- The Eye Can See Everything but Itself _ 23
- Escape from Imagination _ 29
- Using Consciousness _ 33

● Definitions of Terms _ 38
- Gamgak: Pure Stimuli _ 38
- Gamji: A Restrictive Feeling of Familiarity or Knowing _ 38
- Attention: The Transparent Energy of Life _ 41
- Thought and Consciousness: A Network of Gamji _ 43
- Identification: A Tool for Knowing Life _ 44
- Emotion: The Push-and-Pull Relationship between Gamji _ 45
- Being Open to the Senses _ 46
- Being Awake: To Be Aware of Being _ 47
- Awakenment: To Understand the Nature of Consciousness _ 49

● Consciousness
- An Anatomical Chart of Consciousness _ 51
- Why We Try to Locate the Root of Consciousness _ 53
- What Happens When You Are in the State of Gamgak? _ 58
- How Does Consciousness Arise? _ 59
- Where Does the Sense of I Come From? _ 60
- The Birth of Consciousness _ 65

● Attention
- Types of Attention _ 73
- Water Sees Not the Moon but Its Reflection _ 84
* Extended Exercise: Fill It Up with Silence _ 90

● Gamji
- What Are Gamji? _ 95
- Feeling Neutral _ 105
- Feeling the Foundation of the Sense of Separation _ 110
* Extended Exercise: The Sea of Energy _ 113
- The Pastness of Gamji: Memory _ 117
* Extended Exercise: Finding the Center of Existence _ 127

● Gamgak
- The Discovery of Gamgak _ 133
* Extended Exercise: Expansion _ 146
- Gamgak and its Various Uses _ 149
- Seeing Unfamiliarly _ 151
* Extended Exercise: Meeting Objects _ 153

● Being Awake
- What is Being Awake? _ 157
- Feeling Waking Consciousness _ 161
- Being Awake with Objects _ 165
- Being Awake with Thought _ 167
- Being Awake with Emotions _ 170
- Being Awake with the Five Senses _ 174
- Feeling that I Am _ 177

● Identification
- Going Beyond the Self as a Sum of Past Experiences _ 183
- Disconnecting the Chain of Identification (1) _ 191
* Extended Exercise: The Power of Attention _198
- Disconnecting the Chain of Identification (2) _ 201
- Abandoning the Sense of Emptiness _ 207

● Awakenment Practice _ 210

● Being Awake: Testimonials
- The Boundary between Thought and Feeling _ 217
- Catching the Moment a Thought Arises _ 237
- Pure Sensation Wakes _ 244