My dear ones,
I enjoyed my stay very much. First you should know that.

From your side, I could see that you did everything in the best way that you could. But from my side, as I am an ordinary being with little good karma, what I have is finished very fast. That’s what the reality is.

I am an ordinary person with very little merit, so with all that comfort I am finishing the merit very quickly. However, I wanted to add this. Because from my side I am an ordinary being, great comfort means a lot of attachment. It becomes poison and is the cause of being in samsara and the lower realms endlessly.

The common people in the world don’t know karma, therefore they think that external things are the highest quality enjoyments. But they don’t create good karma as much as they enjoy the external things—they use them with great pleasure or they have very expensive enjoyments, so their little good karma finishes very fast. I just wanted to inform you of this.

In the airplane Roger mentioned that you spent a lot of money, for example, buying many vegetables for our food. Then I explained that actually you know what the most important thing is; what the key practice is.

Then I said that what you did is pleasing, it’s the best offering. It purifies unbelievable obscurations and negative karma collected from beginningless rebirths; it collects the most extensive merits and it causes you to actualize the path to enlightenment. Then you will achieve enlightenment the quickest, no question about all the temporary success. It is the best and quickest cause of success.

Then I quoted two tantric texts, the Fifty Verses of Guru Devotion, which is the condensed meaning of tantric texts.

From the Fifty Verses of Guru Devotion:

It is said by Vajradhara that realizations follow the master.
(That means how you follow correctly the vajra master.)
By knowing that, with all actions please the guru.

So with all the things, with devotion, follow the guru’s advice with body, speech and mind, by fulfilling the wishes of the guru and also by making material offerings if you have them. For example, even by offering a glass of water to the guru you become closer to enlightenment. It means every single service, like that, and especially by pleasing the holy mind. This is the quickest path.

This was in essence what I told Roger. Yes, maybe you spent a lot of money, but that is the best way to earn money, to earn so much more. What is achieved compared with what is spent is unbelievable, unbelievable, beyond our concept. What you spent is nothing compared with the result that you will achieve. This is not word-for-word what I said, but this is the essence.

Whatever pleases the guru, attempt that.
(That means all the different things, whatever they are.)
Whatever displeases the guru, don’t do that.
By following this then all the qualities—common, uncommon and sublime —are achieved in this very life.
(“Sublime” means mahamudra realization and enlightenment.)

I may have also explained what Nagarjuna said—that the greatest purification, the greatest realization and the quickest enlightenment is achieved by offering pleasing service to the guru. Even offering to numberless buddhas, Dharma and Sangha and to numberless statues, stupas and scriptures is very small compared with offering service to the guru. Therefore, Nagarjuna said to abandon all the offerings and attempt completely to make offerings to the guru.

So everybody please enjoy. In particular, having met Lama Tsongkhapa’s teachings is a miracle. It’s a miracle, hard to believe.

With much love and prayers ...