A seminar given in the unusual setting of the houseboat of noted Zen teacher Alan Watts, with many of his students present. Trungpa Rinpoche gives a penetrating introduction to essential stages of the Buddhist path. Topics include: seeing how ego arises, how confusion generates thoughts and emotions, and how meditation works to unravel them. Dissolving barrier between "us" and "other" opens up experience of emptiness, shunyata, allowing compassion to arise.