由地到天的二十二层象征着修行者修炼成佛愿（菩提心）的历程，从初级菩萨的初始动机开始，最后到佛陀心中的圆满菩提心。
此教授源自证者无著大师所著的《现证庄严论》以及宗喀巴大师所著的对应论释《现证庄严论金鬘疏》。
经由格西麦克的其中一位弟子的请求，格西于2016年4月22日凌晨时分在北京的酒店房间做了此私密教授。教授为英文，有中文翻译。
為了使它成為一個更強大的學習工具，我們將每張圖片鏈接到視頻中 Geshe Michael 解釋重要思想的確切時間。 您只需單擊每個 Idim，它就會在精確位置打開視頻。
Idim 38.1: Visiting the middle of the sun
Idim 38.2: The honor of the name
Idim 38.3: Good birds, but the sun
Idim 38.4: Even a coffee, and even unknown
Idim 38.5: Better than picking up stones
Idim 38.6: The fastest way to get a stain out
Idim 38.7: A city in the sun
Idim 38.8: A secure place to sit
Idim 38.9: Suddenly, in the sun at the top
Idim 38.10: The quiet fertile valley
Idim 38.11: The dharma of taking a walk
Idim 38.12: The practice in the palm of our hands
Idim 38.13: The most important one of all
Idim 38.14: Where there’s smoke
Idim 38.15: In the end, to prove a person who cannot lie, for things we cannot see
Idim 38.16: The living breath and eyes
Idim 38.17: Chemicals: not, it would be all
Idim 38.18: What is holding it up? See with the eyes of clear thinking that something solid is there
Idim 38.19: What accounts for the variety of things growing out of the same medium?
Idim 38.20: And the same for different flavors of children
Idim 38.21: More than the coloring from the current senses
Idim 38.22: In fact, the supporting goes the other way
Idim 38.23: Happily giving an eye; so the eye is not the support
Idim 38.24: Let’s face it: something hard to think about
Idim 38.25: Where did the water first start? Lakes, clouds, & ouroboros
Idim 38.26: It’s just the odds
Idim 38.27: One worm, enough mothers
Idim 38.28: Not a single corner of the universe
Idim 38.29: Take care of this oxygen giver
Idim 38.30: Expanding the circle
Idim 38.31: Looks can be deceiving
Idim 38.32: The Arhatess of the Sapphire Lotus
Idim 38.33: The river and the wolf
Idim 38.34: Naked pain to arhat: mistakes make a teacher
Idim 38.35: Prajapati, Destroyer of the Enemy, The Lady of All Beings
Idim 38.36: These are still your jeans
Idim 38.37: A tender meeting with an ant
Idim 38.38: The intense caring started from the inside
Idim 38.39: Her biggest achievement: getting us here, to the Lam Rim
Idim 38.40: A newborn on her fingertips: another proof of karma
Idim 38.41: Even in her sleep
Idim 38.42: What I would have been
Idim 38.43: Anything for money
Idim 38.44: The instincts of a mother
Idim 38.45: Giving up her own food
Idim 38.46: Which one was I?
Idim 38.47: Stuffed in a steel cage
Idim 38.48: Would you help her from a fire?
Idim 38.49: The honor & responsibility of saving a life
Idim 38.50: The code of living kind: a gift in return
Idim 38.51: My mother with a knife
Idim 38.52: My feelings for my only child
Idim 38.53: From here, we’re on autopilot
Idim 38.54: Three steps to loving
Idim 38.55: Arya Nagarjuna’s Six-in-One
Idim 38.56: Work hard to keep the total vision
Idim 38.57: Jumping off from here to equal & exchange
Idim 38.58: A trip to the True Thought
Idim 38.59: The root of two roots
Idim 38.60: Compassion: seed, water, and tasty fruit
Idim 38.61: Working backwards from Enlightenment: Why did Master Chandrakirti give a root for two roots??
Idim 38.62: Compassion: seed, water, and tasty fruit
Idim 38.63: What brings the speed? And why?
Idim 38.64: The difference between your Mom & Dad, and your relatives
Idim 38.65: Short cut to compassion
Idim 38.66: Not the slightest difference
Idim 38.67: The closest thing in this world
Idim 38.68: The lie of people who seem to be doing okay
Idim 38.69: Compassion for her future
Idim 38.70: Special attention to the unlovable
Idim 38.71: When you know you have it, over coffee
Idim 38.72: The difference between pulling away, and protecting
Idim 38.73: Building on first steps
Idim 38.74: A slight difference in loves
Idim 38.75: The majesty of responsibility
Idim 38.76: The decision to sell or not
