The following pujas and retreat should be done to remove life obstacles:
- Recitation of the long, middle, and short versions of the Prajnaparamita
- Make 40,000 tsa-tsas urgently!
- Do a long life mantra retreat: recite 400,000 mantras
As I made the observation, the result did not come out good for you to go to either of the two centers in America. For the time being, it is best to return to Kopan Monastery. The best result, shown through observation, is to return to Kopan and continue to teach the monks there. Let’s do that for about a year, and then where would be more beneficial can be checked again. In fact, I personally feel that it would be most beneficial if you continue to teach the monks, because you can teach them more extensively and profoundly, with various skills, such as debate, etc, which you have studied extremely well for such a long period.
I personally feel that’s the best and most beneficial thing, too, and I consider that would be the most meaningful use of your precious human life. Khenrinpoche Lama Lhundrup has also expressed his wish for you to be there with him, and he believes that you would be the teacher to support him in educating the monks at Kopan. In that way, it would be the best service to the guru.
It is said in the Fifty Stanzas of Guru Devotion that if the guru is pleased, that is the best method to purify negativities and accumulate extensive merit, and one will be able to receive the common and excellent blessings within this very lifetime. As there is no other precious birth than this, I advise you to make the best use of it. If you teach in the monastery, you will have more opportunities to do your own practice while you are educating others. Then it is like a beautiful torma, beautified with ornaments of white butter. Whereas, if you go to a foreign country, there will be many obstacles. Though you might solve one, another would occur at some time.
