My most dear, most kind, most precious, wish-fulfilling one,
Thank you for your email. For your long life you need to liberate animals. This is for your long life, as well as for the long life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and for the long life of all the holy beings working for sentient beings, also for the Sangha who preserve and spread the Dharma, and for all the benefactors who preserve the Dharma.

There seems to be some obstacle to your life, therefore you need to liberate at least forty animals. These are animals that would otherwise be killed, so this means saving their lives.

Sometimes nyung näs are very powerful and by doing all the purification, by doing nyung näs, many heavy negative karmas get purified. This karma otherwise causes us to be reborn for eons in hell, so it is purified and maybe manifests as certain sicknesses now or as some problem in this life.

By experiencing this sickness or problem now, then in the future our life is like the sun rising, with so much happiness. There is happiness up to enlightenment, also happiness in our future lives for hundreds or thousands or millions of lives, then liberation from samsara. We don’t need to be born back in the lower realms and suffer for eons, and there is happiness up to enlightenment. For this, we have to experience some problems now in this life. Sometimes it is like that, but not all the time.

You need to liberate animals. This is important. For example, in Singapore you can buy crickets in a plastic bag, so there are one thousand crickets, then you can carry them around the stupa to purify them and bring them to enlightenment. You can do that with two thousand or three thousand crickets. See if you can get many animals, like crickets or worms.

There is a book, Liberating Animals, that explains how to do animal liberation, so please follow that. You can also ask the monks at Nalanda Monastery to help you as they will be familiar with how I do animal liberations.

You can also recite different mantras while you take the animals around holy objects. Anyway, the monks at Nalanda will know how to do this.

Anyway, I checked and yes, it is very good for you to do the nyung näs. Also, you should take the long life initiation, Amitayus initiation.

This is my advice. Please make your life most meaningful with the thought of bodhicitta day and night and in every activity you do.

With much love and prayers ...