My most, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you very much your kind letter. Just getting up early and doing a lot of practice is very good, but you should watch your mind. Don’t do like before. You should watch the mind if it is engaging in strange things, not just waking up early and doing practice. If your mind is engaging in strange things, let me know and maybe there are pujas you can do. Don’t just follow what you think.

Spirits can make us to think differently, so if we just follow them without thinking, [we may endanger] our most precious human life, which has unbelievable possibilities to learn Dharma, the four noble truths, and not only that, we have met the Mahayana, so we can achieve the path to enlightenment.

Not only that, we can achieve enlightenment in one life, without the need to collect merit in three countless great eons. Not only that, the fourth one is that we have met Maha-anuttara Yoga Tantra, which contains the quickest method to achieve buddhahood in a brief lifetime of degenerate time.

Because of that we are able to free the sentient beings from the oceans of samsaric suffering quickly, and because of that we are able to bring every sentient being to peerless happiness, buddhahood. That is what the human body can do. It’s incredible, incredible, incredible, so precious, so precious, so precious!

Be careful not to lose this [precious opportunity]. If we totally believe our mind when it is occupied by spirits, then we might jump from a cliff or do all kinds of things during that time. This happens when the spirits cause hallucinations or make us unconscious, but we don’t recognize that.

I checked and you need to have mamo trü kang puja done by Tsawa Khangtsen [at Sera Je Monastery in south India.] Some monks at Tsawa Khangtsen can do the puja for you, to remove obstacles so you can continue to learn and practice Dharma. This is so your life can become more beneficial for sentient beings; that is the most important thing.

Thank you very much for writing to let me know, that is very wise.

With much love and prayers

The first practice is Vajra Armor. Think Padmasambhava manifests as Vajra Armor, and while you recite the mantra, request to purify all the disease, negative karmas, spirit harm and obscurations collected since beginningless rebirth.

[Make requests] to actualize bodhicitta without delay and to achieve the ultimate wisdom realizing emptiness, the essence that ceases the root of samsara. Pray to actualize the whole path to enlightenment as quickly as possible for sentient beings.

Then Padmasambhava sends white beams, loving kindness and compassion to you so that all the sickness is purified, as well as what I mentioned before (sickness, spirit harm, negative karma and defilements from beginningless rebirths) and all realizations up to enlightenment are actualized. Then recite the mantra.

The next practice is multicolored Garuda. Recite the mantra with the same visualization. Padmasambhava manifests as multicolored Garuda and emits white beams purifying the four things, including naga harm, and you receive all the realizations. Then recite the mantra twenty or thirty times.

Start both practices with refuge and bodhicitta.

Motivate not just for your own happiness but for numberless sentient beings. You are doing this practice in order to free them from the oceans of samsaric sufferings and bring them to ultimate happiness, enlightenment. Then start the practice and at the end, dedicate the merits.

[You can find links to these practices in the FPMT Catalogue.]