Topics Include: 1) Review of the Seven Factors of Awakening. 2) Areas of Investigation: our mental landscape; the power of intention; emotions; cause and effect or karma; the awakened mind itself. 3) The significance of samadhi as a state of awakened mind. 4) Two kinds of suffering: one that leads to more suffering and one that leads to awakening. 5) Cutting through the delusion of self through the understanding of identification.