• Refuge: 300,000
• Mandala offerings: 400,000
• Burning Offering to Dorje Khadro: 30,000
• Water bowl offerings: 500,000
• Diamond Cutter Sutra: Recite one complete Diamond Cutter Sutra every day. If possible, do this for your whole lifetime, if not do it for three years. This is very good. It didn’t come out for you to do much preliminary practice, but to recite this sutra is very good—it’s the most powerful way to purify and collect extensive merits. Particularly, it’s a quick way to realize emptiness and that is the way to be free from samsara quickly and to achieve enlightenment quickly. That is the way to liberate sentient beings and bring them to enlightenment.
• Tong-len: 2,000, generating bodhicitta using Nagarjuna’s prayer, the verse from Lama Chöpa or Shakya Shri Bhadra’s prayer. Any of these three can be used—sometimes this one, sometimes that one, with meditation.

For effortful experience of lam-rim, do:

• Guru devotion: five months
• The graduated path of the lower capable being: three months
• The graduated path of the intermediate capable being: eleven months
• The graduated path of the highest capable being:
  • Bodhicitta: one month
  • Emptiness: 11 months

Then generate the effortless experience of guru devotion and the lower path, etc. Do a little emptiness meditation every day using the Heart Sutra, the four analyses, a verse, stanza or different teachings on emptiness.

This is for effortful experience. After that, for effortless experience, if the guru devotion realization didn’t happen, continue to meditate step-by-step until you get the realization. Do this for the lower path, middle path and higher path.

You should do some meditation on emptiness every day, either using the Heart Sutra, the four point analysis, or even just one verse or stanza with meditation.

After you have actualized bodhicitta, spend more time on tantra, the generation stage and completion stage. After realizing bodhicitta, put more time on tantra.;