The first discourse is a question-and-answer session, in which Lama offers essential advice to students on how to integrate Dharma when they return to the West. In the second discourse Lama discusses many aspects of the path to enlightenment including refuge, the five lay precepts and the bodhisattva vows. In Lama’s final discourse he describes bodhicitta as a universal meditation and urges students to change the attitude of self-cherishing into a determination to hold others dear.