My very dear one,
It is important for you to sleep while consulting with people, like I do. Just sleep during the time people are there, wake up every so often to smile at them, and allow them to think of different stories in their mind while they are waiting and you are sleeping.

According to my observations, these practices would be best for you at this time. On one’s crown, after doing the four initiations, this could be during Lama Chöpa, visualize the guru on your crown and nectar flowing from the guru’s heart into your body, speech, and mind, purifying the four things (illness, spirit harm, negative karma, and obscurations, especially lung energy), then recite the guru's mantra, however many you can.

This method can also be used for any heavy sickness. Then, make a strong request, with total reliance on the guru, for all this negative karma to be purified completely. Do the visualization and strong request for purification before absorbing the guru into your heart, when the guru is still on the crown of the head.

I will check if there is anything else you can do, but maybe by the time I find something else you will be better.

With much love and prayers...

Rinpoche gave the following additional advice later.

My very dear one,
I heard you had great success in Taiwan, that is really great. That means the FPMT is progressing, thank you very much for that!

We just came back from Wisconsin after offering a long-life puja to Geshe Sopa Rinpoche, who is eighty years old, and I was able to attend the last week, which was a great opportunity to receive the oceans of wisdom. I wasn’t able to go last year and part of this year to the summer teachings because there was too much work with the Maitreya project.

I am not sure whether you have more lung or I have more lung. Maybe we can exchange the lungs and see whose is weaker and whose is more violent. Maybe we can open a shop to sell lung to people who don’t have lung, whose lives are boring. We can give it to them and Tony can run the shop because he doesn’t have lung.

Besides the previous advice, here are two particular meditations for lung and these would be very beneficial for you to do. When you have strong lung, visualize an iron, nine-pronged vajra standing up, at your heart, inside your body, blazing and red hot with fire. Concentrate one-pointedly on the vajra. This is the main practice.

You can also try the following method and see which one is better. When heart wind (lung) rises, think that your heart is split into eight or sixteen pieces, like cutting a tomato in many pieces. All the pus and blood comes out.

Practice these and let me know which one is more beneficial.

With much love and prayers...