Featuring Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche's advice on "mindfulness practices to keep our minds in bodhicitta," this is a practical handbook on how to make the most of our fleeting and precarious precious human rebirth, at least some of which is invariably taken up by mundane but necessary actions and activities everyday. Rinpoche explains:

"... even the activities that we normally do—such as eating, sleeping, sitting, walking, and doing our jobs—can become ways to collect unfathomable virtue and skies of merit. With mindfulness of bodhicitta, these can become not only beneficial to ourselves, but beneficial to all sentient beings."

What to reflect on and which mantras to recite with each occasion so that it becomes a cause for enlightenment—which have their origins in the Sutra of the Clouds of the Rare Sublime Ones (Skt. Ratnameghasutra) and other scriptures—forms the substance of this booklet.

It includes the prayer for offering food and drink that are to be consumed, translated on the basis of Rinpoche's commentary. Drawn from the Guhyasamaja Tantra, it was introduced by Lama Thubten Yeshe and Rinpoche in the early days of the FPMT.