My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,

Thank you for your kind emails. I checked regarding your friend, and it actually comes out very good for him personally to recite the Guhyasamaja Root Tantra. This is not yet translated into English but will be soon. Meanwhile it is just in Tibetan phonetics and even for him to try to recite this is very good, if he is willing.

Of course, he must do the morning daily motivation, The Method to Transform a Suffering Life into Happiness (Including Enlightenment).

It comes out very good along with what you are doing for him (and you) to meditate on the four vital points of emptiness. This is in the lamrim. Do this meditation, starting slowly and then later do shamatha, just slowly, slowly.

Also he should recite the longest Chenrezig mantra. This can be good to do when someone is in prison, for them to be released, so he should recite this long mantra with much devotion to Chenrezig.

Of course, the main prison we need to be free from is the inner prison, the attachment to this life, where all the problems come from; the inner prison of attachment to samsaric happiness. To be free from the inner prison of the self-cherishing thought, that is the main one. Then to be free from the inner prison of ignorance, where the root of samsara comes from—where hell beings, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, suras and asuras come from.

From beginningless rebirths we have held the I as real while it is not, then that ignorance created the whole entire hallucination, the real hell, real enlightenment, real samsara, real nirvana, real happiness and real problems in everyday life.

I'm not saying there is no samara, no nirvana, no hell, no enlightenment, but what exists is in mere name.

Then to be free from the inner prison of ordinary appearance and concepts, to be free from the ordinary subtle mind and wind.

So please try this.

With much love and prayers ...