Leading a review of the Homage to Shakyamuni Buddha to meditate on these meaningful epithets.

Outlining the various benefits of keeping precepts and describing the eight types of precepts for householders and monastics, teaching from Chapter 4.

Explaining the common guidelines and maintaining proper refuge, teaching from Chapter 3.

Completing the recollection of the buddha and beginning the recollection of dharma, teaching from Chapter 2.

Explaining the reverse order why buddha is a reliable guide and beginning the section on the recollection of the buddha, teaching from Chapter 2.

Explaining the four kinds of self-confidence and the first three of the ten powers, teaching from Chapter 2.

Finishing the section of Final and Provisional Refuges, and explaining the Three Jewels According to the Vajra Vehicle, from Chapter 1.

Explaining the eight qualities of sangha jewel found in Maitreya’s Sublime Continuum, teaching from Chapter 1.

Explaining the context for understanding the eight qualities of the dharma jewel, teaching from Chapter 1.

Describing the qualities of the three jewels, giving commentary on the Jewel Sutra and explaining nirvana, from Chapter 1.